Natural features
Lakes of Covadonga, Picos de Europa
Cangas de Onís, Asturias, Spain
Two glacial lakes, Enol and Ercina, high in the western Picos de Europa, surrounded by mountain pastures where cows graze.
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Historic sites
Valley of the Temples, Agrigento
Agrigento, Italy
The remains of the ancient Greek city of Akragas, with some of the best-preserved Greek temples outside Greece, standing along a ridge above the sea …
Natural features
Lake Como and Bellagio
Bellagio, Como, Italy
A long, Y-shaped lake surrounded by mountains, lined with elegant villas and gardens.
Attractions
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Humlebæk, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
One of the world's most loved art museums, in a series of low buildings set in a sculpture park on the coast north of Copenhagen, looking across the …
Historic sites
Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal
Two masterpieces of the ornate Manueline style, built when Portugal's explorers sailed the world, and together a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Attractions
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
The national museum of the Netherlands, in a grand 19th-century building, home to the masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age: Rembrandt's huge Night Wa…
Natural features
Cirque de Navacelles
Ganges, Hérault, France
A spectacular canyon in the limestone plateaus of the Causses, where the River Vis once looped around a meander, leaving a hill in the middle of a va…
Historic sites
Delphi
Delphi, Central Greece, Greece
The sanctuary of Apollo, home of the ancient Oracle, set on the steep slopes of Mount Parnassus above a valley of olive trees, considered by the anci…
Historic sites
Palace of Versailles
Versailles, Yvelines, France
The vast palace of Louis XIV, the 'Sun King', and the seat of the French court until the Revolution.
Historic sites
Cragside
Rothbury, Northumberland, United Kingdom
The Victorian home of the inventor and industrialist Lord Armstrong, and the first house in the world lit by hydroelectricity.
Historic sites
Doge's Palace, Venice
Venice, Italy
The Gothic palace of the Doges, the rulers of the Venetian Republic for nearly a thousand years, beside St Mark's Basilica.
Historic sites
Buda Castle and Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
Budapest, Hungary
The Castle Hill on the Buda side of the Danube is crowned by the Royal Palace, home of the Hungarian National Gallery and the Budapest History Museum.
Historic sites
Aqueduct of Segovia
Segovia, Spain
A Roman aqueduct built around 100 AD, striding through the heart of Segovia on two tiers of granite arches, up to 28 m high, built without mortar.
Historic sites
Colmar and Little Venice
Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France
Colmar is the most picturesque town in Alsace, with colourful half-timbered houses, flower boxes and canals.
Food and drink
Pintxos bars in the Parte Vieja, San Sebastián
Donostia-San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain
San Sebastián's old town is packed with bars whose counters are piled with pintxos, the Basque version of tapas: small works of art on bread or skewe…
Natural features
Timanfaya National Park, Lanzarote
Tinajo, Las Palmas, Spain
A landscape of volcanoes and lava fields created by huge eruptions between 1730 and 1736, with craters in shades of red, orange and black.
Historic sites
Vernazza, Cinque Terre
Vernazza, La Spezia, Italy
Often called the most beautiful of the five Cinque Terre villages: colourful houses piled around a tiny harbour, with a little beach, the church of S…
Natural features
Krka National Park
Grad Šibenik, Šibenik-Knin, Croatia
A national park along the Krka River, with a series of beautiful waterfalls and cascades.
Historic sites
Rovinj Old Town
Rovinj, Istria, Croatia
A colourful fishing town on a small peninsula on Istria's west coast, with narrow cobbled lanes climbing to the hilltop church of St Euphemia, whose …
Historic sites
Tallinn Old Town
Tallinn, Estonia
One of the best-preserved medieval towns in northern Europe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with city walls and towers, cobbled streets, merchants' ho…
Walks and treks
Trolltunga
Ullensvang, Vestland, Norway
A spectacular rock ledge sticking out horizontally 700 m above Lake Ringedalsvatnet, one of the most famous photo spots in Norway.
Historic sites
Suomenlinna Sea Fortress, Helsinki
Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
An 18th-century fortress built across six islands at the entrance to Helsinki's harbour, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Attractions
Louvre Museum, Paris
Paris, France
The world's most visited museum, in the former royal palace on the Seine, entered through I.
Attractions
The British Museum, London
Camden Town, Camden, United Kingdom
One of the world's great museums, founded in 1753, with eight million objects covering two million years of human history.
Natural features
Danube Delta
Sulina, Tulcea, Romania
Europe's largest and best-preserved river delta, where the Danube splits into channels, lakes and reed beds before reaching the Black Sea.
Historic sites
Waddesdon Manor
Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
A French Renaissance-style château built in the 1870s and 1880s for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild to display his collection of art and to entertain.
Attractions
Museum Island, Berlin
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Five world-class museums on an island in the River Spree, together a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Historic sites
Grand-Place, Brussels
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
One of the most beautiful squares in Europe, surrounded by the Gothic Town Hall and the gilded baroque guild houses of medieval Brussels.
Natural features
Porthcurno and the Minack Theatre
Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Porthcurno is a stunning beach of fine white shell sand and clear blue-green water in a steep cove near Land's End.
Historic sites
Riga Old Town and Art Nouveau District
Riga, Latvia
The largest city in the Baltics, with a UNESCO-listed medieval old town, including the House of the Blackheads, St Peter's Church, whose tower you ca…
Historic sites
Óbidos town walls
Óbidos, Leiria, Portugal
Óbidos is a perfectly preserved medieval village, entirely enclosed by its walls, with whitewashed houses trimmed in blue and yellow, bougainvillea a…
Attractions
Powerscourt Estate and Gardens
Enniskerry, Wicklow, Ireland
Often called one of the world's great gardens, Powerscourt has 47 acres of formal gardens, Italian terraces, statues and ornamental lakes beneath the…
Natural features
Ponta da Piedade, Lagos
Lagos, Faro, Portugal
A headland of golden limestone cliffs, sea stacks, arches and grottoes near Lagos in the western Algarve, with a lighthouse on top.
Historic sites
Burg Eltz
Treis-Karden, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
A storybook castle hidden in a wooded valley above the Moselle, owned by the same family for more than 850 years and never destroyed.
Historic sites
Valletta
Valletta, Malta
Malta's tiny fortified capital, built by the Knights of St John in the 16th century, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Natural features
Škocjan Caves
Divača, Slovenia
A UNESCO-listed cave system where the Reka River disappears underground into one of the largest known underground canyons in the world, 146 m deep.
Natural features
Sete Cidades, São Miguel, Azores
Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal
Twin lakes, one green and one blue, filling a huge volcanic crater on the island of São Miguel in the Azores.
Historic sites
Sanssouci Palace and Park, Potsdam
Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
The summer palace of Frederick the Great, built in 1747 on top of terraced vineyards, in a huge park of gardens, fountains, temples and more palaces,…
Natural features
Geysir and Strokkur
Bláskógabyggð, Iceland
The geothermal area of Haukadalur, where the original Geysir, which gave its name to all geysers, now rarely erupts.
Attractions
Vasa Museum, Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden
The Vasa, a magnificent warship that sank on its maiden voyage in Stockholm harbour in 1628, and was raised 333 years later almost intact.
Historic sites
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial
Oświęcim, Lesser Poland, Poland
The largest Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered.
Buildings
Frauenkirche, Dresden
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Dresden's great baroque church, with its stone dome, collapsed after the bombing of the city in February 1945 and lay as a pile of rubble for nearly …
Historic sites
Bryggen, Bergen
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
A row of colourful wooden merchants' houses on Bergen's harbour, the old Hanseatic wharf, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Natural features
Lake Mývatn and Námafjall
Laugar, Þingeyjarsveit, Iceland
A volcanic lake in north Iceland surrounded by craters, lava formations and geothermal areas.
Natural features
Oia, Santorini
Oía, South Aegean, Greece
A village of white houses and blue-domed churches clinging to the rim of Santorini's caldera, a flooded volcanic crater, with famous sunsets over the…
Natural features
Eisriesenwelt Ice Cave
Werfen, Salzburg, Austria
The world's largest ice cave, running 42 km into the Tennengebirge mountains above Werfen, with its first kilometre filled with spectacular ice forma…
Historic sites
Malbork Castle
Malbork, Pomerania, Poland
The largest castle in the world by land area, a huge red-brick Gothic fortress built by the Teutonic Knights from the 13th century beside the Nogat R…
Walks and treks
Morskie Oko, Tatra Mountains
Zakopane, Lesser Poland, Poland
The largest and most beautiful lake in the Tatra Mountains, a deep green-blue glacial lake beneath granite peaks, including Rysy, the highest mountai…
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