{"id":604185,"date":"2025-11-30T22:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604185\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T22:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:59:19","slug":"the-pretty-but-underrated-european-town-with-hardly-any-tourists-travel-news-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604185\/","title":{"rendered":"The pretty but underrated European town with hardly any tourists | Travel News | Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europe is filled with stunning historic towns, but all too often they\u2019re crowded with tourists. If you\u2019re looking for a destination<\/a> that\u2019s a little more off the beaten path, this town is the perfect place.<\/p>\n

Time Out<\/a> has named Izola, in Slovenia<\/a>, as one of Europe\u2019s most underrated destinations. It says: \u201cPiran receives most of the attention, Portoro\u017e has most of the glitz, and Koper gets most of the practical stuff, but those in the know will tell you that Izola is where Slovenia\u2019s coast shines brightest.\u201d It adds that the pace of life is slow in the town, which is close to the coast.<\/p>\n

Time Out adds: \u201cIzola is positively dripping in Venetian elegance, and its narrow, winding streets hide delightful cafes, romantic restaurants, and scenes of everyday life that have long been lost to the coast\u2019s more mainstream destinations.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re wondering what there is to do in the area, there\u2019s a huge range on offer depending on what you\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n

You can visit Svetilnik Beach, which is a scenic part of the coast.<\/p>\n

One person who visited said on Tripadvisor: \u201cGreat beach location in Slovenia<\/a>. We were at the beach in Piran, Koper and Fiesa, but this beach is the best.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are very clean toilets, little bars and ice cream. You can hire chairs for \u20ac5, and can lie on the grass, wood or stone. There are good facilities to get into the water. We think it was the best.<\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t the only thing the town<\/a> has to offer \u2013 you can\u2019t miss out on exploring the town.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll discover homes, cafes, shops, galleries, and churches, along with Manzioli Sqaure and the bell tower at Saint Maurus Church, which you can climb for views of the town and the sea.<\/p>\n

Time Out says this stunning part of Slovenia is one to visit in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe is filled with stunning historic towns, but all too often they\u2019re crowded with tourists. If you\u2019re looking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,189381,13492,1014,44842,189382],"class_list":{"0":"post-604185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-izola","12":"tag-slovenia","13":"tag-travel-advice","14":"tag-underrated-destinations","15":"tag-venetian-elegance"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115641134598646419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}