Calabria is one of the last Italian regions not to have been brutalized by mass tourism. It’s the right place to not feel like a tourist, because there is no tourism. Eight hundred kilometers of coasts, mostly populated only by Calabrians on vacation, and mountains, less than an hour away from the sea, that are the envy of the Alps (indeed, they are).

Or rather, two seas, the Tyhrennian and the Ionian. Calabria is beautiful, and until today only the Calabrians knew it: now Time magazine has inscribed it in the list of the world’s 50 greatest places of 2022–and it is the only Italian location to make this year’s edition.