EUROPE

Europe

Between cobblestones and church bells, learn how Europeans greet, how they pace their meals and how they cherish their heritage.

Photo: Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0

City guides

Start with a city

Every city guide has a timeline, stories of local figures, must-see sights, festivals and local etiquette.

Paris

4 places

From an island in the Seine to the 'City of Light': Notre-Dame, the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower

Roma

Rome

4 places

The 'Eternal City': the Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Vatican, a state within a city

Barcelona

2 places

Gaudí's city: Roman walls, the Gothic Quarter and Catalan Modernisme

London

4 places

A port city founded by the Romans: the Tower, Westminster and the Thames

Wien

Vienna

4 places

Imperial capital of the Habsburgs and city of music: palaces, a cathedral and old cafés

München

Munich

3 places

A royal capital grown from a 'place of monks': Marienplatz, Nymphenburg Palace and Oktoberfest

Venezia

Venice

3 places

A maritime republic built on a lagoon: St Mark's, the Doge's Palace and Carnival

Lisboa

Lisbon

3 places

Starting point of the Age of Discovery: Belém Tower, the Jerónimos Monastery and the Alfama

Αθήνα Athens

Athens

2 places

Birthplace of democracy: the Acropolis, the Parthenon and the Acropolis Museum

Amsterdam

3 places

From a dam on the Amstel to a Golden Age city of canals

Tromsø

1 places

'Gateway to the Arctic': a city of explorers in the auroral zone

Classic landmarkVienna, Austria

Schönbrunn Palace

The Habsburgs' summer palace: an imperial dream of 1,441 rooms

Classic landmarkSalzkammergut, Austria

Hallstatt

A lakeside salt-mining village, the postcard model for 'the world's most beautiful village'

FoodVienna, Austria

Sachertorte

Vienna's most famous chocolate cake, over which two old houses fought legal battles for decades.

CaféVienna, Austria (Café Central and other old cafés)

Viennese coffee houses

One coffee buys you an afternoon: marble tables, Thonet chairs, newspaper racks and a glass of water served with your coffee.

Classic landmarkVienna (Stephansplatz), Austria

St Stephen's Cathedral

A Viennese landmark with a coloured tiled roof, witness to many great events in Habsburg and Austrian history.