Europe's most beautiful villages
Hand-picked from the official “most beautiful” lists of Italy, France, Spain and Austria, and the UNESCO World Heritage sites.
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No. 065
Mont-Saint-Michel
Normandy (Manche), France
Mont-Saint-Michel is a tidal island village of 23 residents in Normandy, UNESCO-listed since 1979, crowned by a Benedictine abbey amid 14-metre tides.
UNESCO
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No. 011
Eguisheim
Grand Est (Alsace), France
Eguisheim's streets curve in concentric rings around its original medieval fortress, a layout still legible from above.
Les Plus Beaux Villages de France
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No. 040
Pitigliano
Tuscany (Maremma), Italy
Pitigliano rises directly from a tufa cliff in Tuscany's Maremma, its buildings seemingly continuous with the rock beneath them.
I Borghi più belli d'Italia
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No. 064
Manarola
Liguria (Province of La Spezia, frazione of Riomaggiore), Italy
Manarola is the smallest inhabited Cinque Terre village, part of Italy's UNESCO-listed coastal landscape, known for terraced vineyards and cliffside houses.
UNESCO
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No. 042
Spello
Umbria, Italy
Spello climbs a ridge of Monte Subasio in Umbria, its Roman and medieval layers visible in the same walls.
I Borghi più belli d'Italia
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No. 033
Follina
Veneto (Treviso), Italy
Follina in the Treviso Prealps, Veneto, is built around a 12th-century Cistercian abbey and lies along the UNESCO Prosecco Superiore wine hills.
I Borghi più belli d'Italia
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Sixty-eight villages you can actually get to. Each one tells you where it stands, the nearest airport and the nearest station, what makes it worth the journey, and where to stay when you arrive — from an island the tide cuts off twice a day to a village on a tufa pillar you can only reach on foot.
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