Guides & articles about destinations in Europe
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Paris has been the most visited city on Earth for much of the past century — and it consistently earns that status. The Ville Lumière is, quite simply, one of the greatest cities ever built: a 2,000-year accumulation of architecture, cuisine, art, fa...
Bergen is Norway's second largest city and, for most visitors, its most immediately beautiful. Built on a narrow peninsula between the Byfjord and seven surrounding mountains, the city combines a compact medieval harbour core with an outdoor culture ...
Oslo is a capital city on its own terms — not trying to compete with London or Paris, but increasingly confident in what it does uniquely well. At roughly 700,000 people, it combines genuine city amenities with remarkable proximity to nature: you can...
The Northern Lights — aurora borealis — are caused by charged particles from the sun colliding with gases in Earth's upper atmosphere, producing curtains and ribbons of coloured light across the night sky. Norway, sitting directly beneath the auroral...
Germany's Romantische Straße (Romantic Road) is one of Europe's most celebrated scenic drives — a 460km route through the heart of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg connecting the Franconian wine region to the foot of the Bavarian Alps. It passes medieva...
No city in Europe carries as much 20th-century history in its bones as Berlin. Capital of the Wilhelmine Empire, centre of Weimar Republic decadence and experimentation, heart of the Nazi Reich, city divided by a concrete wall for 28 years, and then ...
Wrocław (formerly the German city of Breslau) is one of Central Europe's most interesting cities — not just for its jaw-dropping Gothic and Renaissance market square, but for the layered, complicated history carved into every stone of this place that...
Of all the cities in Central Europe, Kraków is arguably the most complete. Warsaw was obliterated and rebuilt. Prague dazzles but floods with tourists. Kraków — Poland's ancient royal capital — survived the Second World War almost entirely intact, le...