Lakeside & Coastal Escapes

Saint-Suliac sits on the Rance estuary, its slate-roofed houses arranged around a small fishing harbor.

Orta San Giulio occupies a promontory on Lake Orta, facing the small Isola San Giulio just offshore.

Castiglione del Lago occupies a promontory surrounded on three sides by Lake Trasimeno.

Comillas pairs a medieval core with an unusual concentration of late-19th-century modernist architecture, including El Capricho, one of only a handful of buildings Antoni Gaudí completed outside Catalonia.

Hallstatt has lent its name to an entire prehistoric era — the Hallstatt culture — after Iron Age salt-mining artifacts were uncovered in the mountain above the village.