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Birthplace of Nobel Prize-winning poet Juan Ramón Jiménez and a key stop on the lugares colombinos route tracing Christopher Columbus's first voyage, Moguer…
This hill village in Umbria recognised as one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia, Corciano preserves a medieval centre of almost circular shape, partly still enc…
A well-preserved medieval town wall with numerous towers and gates rings the historic centre of this little Franconian town on the River Main, set deep in th…
Less crowded travel ideas from 14 heavily touristed countries.
Italy · France · Spain · Portugal · Britain · America · Canada · Japan · Germany · Greece · Turkey · Croatia · Thailand · Vietnam · Austria
Italian family getaways · French food and café towns · Spanish old-world towns · Portuguese wine country · British old-world towns · Austrian mountain villages · Greek islands and coast · Croatian coast and islands · Turkish ancient sites · Japanese coast and islands · Thai islands · Vietnamese cities · Canadian mountain villages · American mountain villages
Places gain points for proximity to water and mountains, concentration of protected architecture, and certain photo metrics. They lose points for signals that suggest they are crowded or already wealthier than the national average.
Read the methodology →A tourism-intensity penalty pulls already-crowded destinations down. The weights are the same in every country; the rankings are normalised within each country so a small Italian hilltop town competes with other Italian places, not with rural Mongolia.