Tag Archives: Hidden Gems

Europe is not a continent that typically invites comparison with other planets. Its reputation is built on the human and the historical — on the accumulated architecture of three thousand years of civilization, on the cathedrals and the piazzas and the wine and the art and the particular quality of…

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Italy has a city problem — or rather, Italian tourism has a city problem. Every year, tens of millions of visitors funnel themselves through Rome, Florence, Venice, and Milan, queuing for the same monuments, eating at the same tourist-facing restaurants, and experiencing a version of Italy that, for all its…

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Europe has a tourist problem — or rather, European tourism has a concentration problem. Every year, hundreds of millions of visitors funnel themselves through the same dozen cities, the same famous squares, the same queues for the same monuments, creating a kind of feedback loop in which the most visited…

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