Between Instagram, the Internet, and your own vacations, you're probably familiar with Italy's better-known holiday spots (we're talking places like Lake Como, Venice, Tuscany, Rome, and Capri, to name a few). They're all stunning, fairy-tale locations, to be sure, but not exactly undiscovered. In fact, with all the tourists flocking to these locales each year, you just might get a better view of the sites with a Google image search from the comfort of your sofa than in real life.

But that doesn't mean you should decamp to other countries just yet. It simply means you need to get a little creative. Mara Solomon, founder of luxury Italian villa rental company Homebase Abroad, has a few suggestions. Solomon has spent the past two decades years exploring Italy. "I discover places by taking the actual road less traveled," she says.

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Source: http://www.vogue.com/