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An independent travel guide — heavily vetted hotels, restaurants, and things to do.

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This season’s list

Italy

The eternal city lives up to it. Go early, eat late, ignore the lines.

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Greece

Santorini without the crowds, then its quieter sisters — Milos, Paros, Naxos.

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Italy

Whitewashed farms, empty coves, tomatoes drying in the sun. Go shoulder season.

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Our Standard

Every place here survived an unreasonable amount of checking, and gets cut the moment it stops deserving the spot.

Sofia Founder · Hala

This week Shoulder-season Puglia. The masserie are quiet, the focaccia is the same.

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