Nestled among the lakes and forests of north-eastern Lithuania, Utena is one of the country’s oldest settlements, with a history that stretches back over 700 years. First mentioned in historical records in 1261, the city has grown from a small wooden fortress into a modern regional centre of about 25,000 people. Despite its long history, […]
Grazzano Visconti is a surreal neo-Gothic fantasy village hidden in the countryside of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, a meticulously crafted ‘faux medieval’ hamlet built in the early 1900s by a visionary count. Every cobblestone, turret, and wrought-iron balcony was deliberately designed to transport visitors back to a romanticised Middle Ages, making it one of Italy’s most unusual […]
