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Motovun sits on a conical hill in Croatia's Istria peninsula — substantial medieval town built atop a 277-meter peak overlooking the Mirna River valley. The cumulative town features 1,052-stair…
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Theth sits in northern Albania's Albanian Alps (Bjeshkët e Nemuna or "Accursed Mountains") — substantially remote village of approximately 200-300 permanent residents where traditional Ottoman-era cultural elements have persisted…
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Salina Turda is a 2,000-year-old salt mine in Transylvania. Closed for production in 1932, it sat largely forgotten until 1992 when it reopened as something unprecedented: an underground amusement…
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Lake Bled in northwestern Slovenia contains a small island — the only natural island in all of Slovenia — that has held a church on its surface for over…