SIX ENCLAVES FAR FROM HOME

SOLVANG, CALIFORNIA

A drive up Highway 101 past Spanish-revival buildings and surfing breaks is punctuated by this tiny city reminiscent of Denmark, founded in 1911 by a group of DanishAmericans fleeing Midwestern winters. Its cobbled streets are lined with half-timbered houses and twinkling lights, and there is even an annual

Danish Day in September

LA CUMBRECITA, ARGENTINA

In 1934 the Cabjolsky family, who migrated from Berlin, bought two square miles of land intending to create a German idyll to use as a holiday home. Today, this vertiginous hamlet, southwest of Cordoba, has bags of Tyrolean charm. Expect traditional German cafés serving apfelstrudel, plus alpine cabins, pine trees, and 189 permanent residents

GRINDELWALD, TASMANIA

No, not that Grindelwald – this one is more than 10,000 miles from its namesake in Switzerland, on the Australian island of Tasmania. Developed by a Dutch businessman in the 1980s, the Swiss village with just shy of 1,000 residents is set around an artificial alpine lake and boasts timber chalets complete with jutting eaves and quaint shutters recalling Switzerland

SWEDEN HILLS, JAPAN

The residents are Japanese, but the village is undeniably Swedish. Construction began in the early 1980s, after a visiting ambassador observed that the climate in the town of Tobetsu was similar to that of his native Sweden. The village has wooden houses painted falu red, a traditional midsummer celebration and an annual kraftskiva, or crayfish party

POLONEZKOY, TURKEY

More commonly known to its 1,000-strong population as Adampol, this Polish village on the outskirts of Istanbul was founded in 1842 by a small group of refugees, funded by

(and named after) Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.

Plan your visit to coincide with June’s Cherry Festival, when the village is awash with Polish folk bands, dancing and traditional costume

TARPON SPRINGS, FLORIDA

Claiming the highest percentage of Greek Americans in the United States, this city on Florida’s west coast feels (and looks) unnervingly like a Mediterranean fishing village.

Its original

Greek residents were attracted by the local sponge-diving industry in the early 1900s, and today you will find

Greek churches among the attractions