EUROPE
Europe
Between cobblestones and church bells, learn how Europeans greet, how they pace their meals and how they cherish their heritage.
City guides
Start with a city
Every city guide has a timeline, stories of local figures, must-see sights, festivals and local etiquette.
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Paris
Paris
4 places
From an island in the Seine to the 'City of Light': Notre-Dame, the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower
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Roma
Rome
4 places
The 'Eternal City': the Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Vatican, a state within a city
Barcelona
Barcelona
2 places
Gaudí's city: Roman walls, the Gothic Quarter and Catalan Modernisme
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London
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
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam
3 places
From a dam on the Amstel to a Golden Age city of canals
Tromsø
Tromsø
1 places
'Gateway to the Arctic': a city of explorers in the auroral zone
Eiffel Tower
The 'Iron Lady' on the Seine, Paris's irreplaceable city totem
The Acropolis of Athens
Sunrise over the Parthenon, where Western civilisation caught its first light
Santorini
Blue-domed churches and white cave houses: the ultimate Aegean romance on a cliff
Zaanse Schans
Turning windmills three centuries old: an open-air museum of the Dutch Golden Age
Keukenhof
A spring of 7 million bulbs: the 'Garden of Europe' in its once-a-year bloom
Jungfrau
The 'Top of Europe' at 3,454 m: a fairy-tale world of ice palace and snowfields
Schönbrunn Palace
The Habsburgs' summer palace: an imperial dream of 1,441 rooms
Hallstatt
A lakeside salt-mining village, the postcard model for 'the world's most beautiful village'
Belém Tower
A Manueline jewel at the mouth of the Tagus, watchman of the Age of Discovery
Cabo da Roca
'Where the land ends and the sea begins': the westernmost point of mainland Europe
Geirangerfjord
A World Heritage fjord, the soul of Norway where the 'Seven Sisters' falls cascade
Louvre
A medieval palace turned into the world's largest temple of art, where 'the Mona Lisa's smile' awaits you
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Vasa Museum
A warship that sank in 1628 sees daylight again: a time capsule of Sweden's age of empire
Colosseum
The heart of the empire, where gladiators' cries still seem to echo among the arches
St Peter's Basilica
The centre of the Catholic world: a monument of faith beneath Michelangelo's dome
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Sagrada Família
Gaudí's lifelong 'Bible in stone', a church that is still growing
Tower Bridge
A Victorian gentleman in blue on the Thames, the afterglow of empire in every opening
Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster
The Gothic Houses of Parliament on the Thames, keeper of the world's 'standard time'
Neuschwanstein Castle
The dream castle of the 'Fairy-Tale King' Ludwig II, inspiration for the Disney castle
Brandenburg Gate
From division to unity: the 'triumphal arch' of modern German history
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Anne Frank House
The secret annexe behind a bookcase where Anne Frank's family hid for two years and she wrote her diary.
Rijksmuseum
Treasure house of the Dutch Golden Age: Rembrandt's Night Watch and masterpieces by Vermeer and Hals are all here.
Amsterdam canal ring
Concentric half-rings of canals planned in the 17th-century Golden Age: the Herengracht, Keizersgracht and Prinsengracht, lined with gabled hous…
Acropolis Museum
Ancient ruins beneath glass floors, and a glass gallery on the top floor facing the Parthenon.
Jerónimos Monastery
A Manueline masterpiece built with the riches of the spice trade, where Vasco da Gama is buried.
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Doge's Palace
The seat of power of the Venetian Republic: the doge's residence, council chambers, courts and prisons were all in this Gothic palace.
St Mark's Basilica
The Venetian Republic's 'state chapel': golden mosaic domes and four bronze horses brought back from Constantinople.
Nymphenburg Palace
The Wittelsbachs' summer palace: its façade is wider than Versailles', and it was the birthplace of Ludwig II, the 'Fairy-Tale King'.
Marienplatz and the New Town Hall
Munich's central square since 1158: the Glockenspiel in the New Town Hall tower re-enacts a 16th-century wedding and the coopers' dance.
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St Stephen's Cathedral
A Viennese landmark with a coloured tiled roof, witness to many great events in Habsburg and Austrian history.
Tower of London
William the Conqueror's White Tower: royal palace, prison, armoury and Crown Jewels, all in one castle.
Park Güell
Gaudí's naturalist work: a mosaic lizard, a serpentine bench and a hillside view over the whole city.
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Pantheon
A concrete dome almost two thousand years old, still the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world, with sunlight pouring in through the o…
Notre-Dame de Paris
The epitome of French Gothic: flying buttresses, rose windows and a nave reopened after the fire of 2019.