120 city guides · 3-day highlights itineraries
3-day city guides covering the essential highlights every visitor should experience.
Rembrandt's Night Watch, Anne Frank's annex, jenever from a tulip glass and a canal at golden hour…
Europe's highest capital (1,023m) and its most unusual sovereign state: co-ruled by the French Presi…
Turkey's underrated capital: the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations (the world's finest Hittite colle…
The Turkish Riviera capital with 5,000 years of history: Hadrian's triumphal arch (130 CE, the most …
The city that ran 16th-century global trade: four Rubens altarpieces in the Cathedral, 80% of the wo…
The Parthenon at 8am, the Acropolis Museum's missing Elgin Marbles gap and souvlaki with French frie…
The medieval capital of Christendom: the largest Gothic building in the world (the Palais des Papes,…
Azerbaijan's fire city on the Caspian — Zaha Hadid, medieval oil barons, and the world's mud volcano…
The world's greatest unfinished church, Gaudí's mosaic dragon park, pintxos in Gothic lanes and pael…
England's only entirely UNESCO-listed city: the Roman Baths (70 CE, 1.17 million litres/day of 45°C …
Ali & Nino statue, Adjaran khachapuri, Botanical Garden and Black Sea sunsets…
From the most dangerous city in Western Europe during the Troubles (1969–1998: 3,500 dead, 99 concre…
The "White City" destroyed and rebuilt by the Celts, Romans, Ottomans, Habsburgs, Luftwaffe (1941) a…
Gateway to the Fjords: the UNESCO Hanseatic Bryggen wharf, the Norway in a Nutshell fjord circuit (N…
The Wall, Pergamon Museum, Reichstag dome and the world's best nightlife…
The UNESCO-arcaded Swiss capital where Einstein wrote E=mc²: 6km of covered medieval walkways, a gla…
The "Bilbao Effect": how Frank Gehry's titanium museum transformed a flooded steel city into a world…
The city that industrialized the world (James Watt's steam engine, commercialized at Matthew Boulton…
The most photographed lake in Europe (the Pletna boat to the island church with its wishing bell, th…
"La Grassa, La Dotta, La Rossa": the real Bolognese ragù (tagliatelle, not spaghetti), tortellini mo…
The UNESCO Cathédrale Saint-Étienne (the only five-aisled Gothic cathedral in France after Notre-Dam…
The only capital in the world that borders two other countries (Austria (10km) and Hungary (30km)). …
The UNESCO Rathaus and Roland (the most important Hanseatic civic monument in Germany: the Roland St…
Banksy's hometown (the most internationally recognized anonymous street artist in the world: the "Mi…
Czech Moravia's capital — Mies van der Rohe, mummies, medieval prisons, and Moravian wine…
The birthplace of Art Nouveau, the world's most complex chocolate, 3,000 beers at Delirium and the G…
The city of violent contrasts: Belle Époque "Little Paris" boulevards beside Ceaușescu's 1,100-room …
The city divided by the Danube: Buda (the thermal springs, the royal castle, the Fisherman's Bastion…
The first Ottoman capital (1326–1365): the Green Mosque (1419 — the finest early Ottoman architectur…
King's College Chapel (the finest Perpendicular Gothic building in existence: 101 years to build (14…
Canterbury Cathedral (UNESCO: the murder of Thomas Becket on December 29 1170 — the most powerful me…
The Cité (UNESCO: 3km of double walls, 53 towers — the most spectacular medieval fortified city in w…
Cardiff Castle (the most extraordinary Victorian Gothic fantasy in Wales: William Burges's Arab Room…
Mount Etna (Europe's most active volcano, 3,357m — the most dramatic volcanic landscape in Europe), …
The cultural capital of Transylvania: St. Michael's Gothic Church (1349–1487 CE — the most important…
The ancient capital of Portugal (1131–1255 CE), the oldest university in the Portuguese-speaking wor…
The city of three obsessions: the Cathedral (begun 1248, paused 632 years, completed 1880 — the worl…
The world's happiest city: 62% cycle to work on 390km of dedicated tracks, the Noma legacy transform…
The most historically layered city in Spain: the Mezquita-Catedral (UNESCO — the most extraordinary …
The most beautiful Greek island: UNESCO Venetian Old Town (2007 — the most perfectly preserved Venet…
One of the most strategically important cities in the ancient world: the Temple of Apollo (550 BCE —…
The Rebel City — Ireland's most food-obsessed city: the English Market (est. 1610 — Ireland's most c…
Oltenia's cultural capital: the Jean Mihail Palace Art Museum (Brancusi collection — the most import…
Belgium's most dramatically cliff-perched city: the Dinant Citadel (100m limestone cliff above the M…
The city of Guinness, the Book of Kells, Bloomsday and trad sessions: four Nobel Prize winners in li…
The most perfectly preserved medieval walled city in the Mediterranean: the 1,940m City Walls (the m…
The fashion capital of Germany and "Little Tokyo on the Rhine": the Altstadt (the most bar-dense dis…
Edinburgh Castle, Arthur's Seat at sunrise, whisky tasting and haggis by candlelight…
The design capital of the Netherlands and home of Philips: the Dutch Design Week (350,000 visitors —…
The most underrated gateway city of the Algarve: the Ria Formosa Natural Park (60km of barrier islan…
Where the Renaissance was born: Botticelli's Venus (Uffizi), Michelangelo's David (5.17m, the oversi…
The financial capital of Continental Europe and the birthplace of Goethe: the Römerberg (most iconic…
Madeira's subtropical capital — wicker toboggans, laurel forest levadas, and 200-year-old wine lodge…
The cultural heart of the Irish West and most vibrant traditional music city in Ireland: Shop Street…
The world's baklava capital and UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy: the Zeugma Mosaic Museum (world'…
Where WWII began and Solidarity was born: the Long Market (most magnificent merchant-house-lined Pol…
The world's most international city and birthplace of humanitarian law: the Jet d'Eau (140m lake fou…
Europe's largest medieval city centre and birthplace of Columbus and pesto: the caruggi (medieval la…
The Belgian city that outshines Bruges (and knows it): the Ghent Altarpiece (most stolen painting in…
The Rock at the edge of two continents and two seas: the Barbary macaques (Europe's only wild primat…
Scotland's most vibrant city and birthplace of Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Kelvingrove Art Gallery (D…
The world's most otherworldly landscape and most famous hot-air balloon destination: the fairy chimn…
Seafood, trams, and the archipelago just 30 minutes from the city…
The Alhambra, Albaicín, Sacromonte flamenco caves and free tapas with every drink…
Austria's UNESCO old town — castle hills, the Friendly Alien, and Styrian wine…
Port city, Elbphilharmonie, and the canals of the Speicherstadt — Germany's most cosmopolitan city…
Finland's design capital — sauna nation, UNESCO sea fortress, and the world's greatest silence…
Minoan civilisation's capital — Knossos palace, Snake Goddess frescoes, and Venetian harbour fortres…
Romania's intellectual capital — Eminescu's linden tree, carved monastery facades, and Cotnari desse…
Tyrol's alpine imperial city — the Golden Roof, Nordkette cable car to 2,334m, and Zaha Hadid's ski …
Scottish Highlands capital — Loch Ness, Culloden Battlefield, Cawdor Castle, and whisky tasting…
Hagia Sophia at dawn, the Grand Bazaar, a Bosphorus cruise between two continents and raki with mezz…
Turkey's Aegean liberal city — Kemeraltı bazaar, Ephesus Library of Celsus, and boyoz pastries on th…
Poland's Silesian coal city reborn — museum in a mine, 1908 workers' estate, and the Spodek flying s…
Lithuania's interwar capital — Čiurlionis abstract paintings, the Ninth Fort, and cepelinai potato d…
Russia's Tatar capital — UNESCO kremlin with mosque and cathedral, chak-chak honey sweets, and the V…
Ukraine's second city — Freedom Square, Derzhprom Soviet constructivism, and Ukrainian cultural resi…
Ukraine's golden-domed capital — Pechersk Lavra caves, Saint Sophia Byzantine mosaics, and Chernobyl…
Slovakia's eastern capital — Gothic cathedral, 3,000-coin gold treasure, and Slovak Paradise gorge l…
Montenegro's UNESCO Venetian treasure — 1,350-step fortress, man-made island church, and Adriatic fj…
The best-preserved medieval city in Poland: the Wawel Royal Castle, the Kazimierz Jewish quarter, th…
Russia's Kuban agricultural capital — Galitsky Park, Cossack heritage, and Black Sea wine country…
Switzerland's Olympic capital — Gothic cathedral Night Watch, UNESCO Lavaux vineyards, Château de Ch…
Yorkshire's cultural capital — Royal Armouries, Victorian market halls, Lavaux-like Headingley crick…
France's Flemish capital — Vieux-Lille baroque streets, La Piscine art deco pool museum, Braderie fl…
Austria's digital arts capital — Ars Electronica, Bruckner organ at St. Florian, Mauthausen memorial…
Alfama fado, Jerónimos cloisters, pastel de nata from 1837 and the westernmost point of Europe…
Britain's music capital — Beatles Cavern Club, Three Graces waterfront, Slavery Museum, Anfield, and…
Slovenia's green capital — Plečnik riverfront, Lake Bled island church, Dragon Bridge, and Rebula or…
Poland's factory city reborn — Manufaktura palace-factory, Piotrkowska street, Ghetto Radegast memor…
The world's most-visited city — British Museum, Tower of London, free Tate Modern, Borough Market, a…
Poland's eastern city — Majdanek Holocaust memorial, Union of Lublin 1569, Byzantine castle frescoes…
Switzerland's alpine lake city — Chapel Bridge 1333, Mount Pilatus world's steepest cogwheel, Rigi f…
World's wealthiest capital — UNESCO fortress casemates, Moselle Riesling, Vianden Castle, Philharmon…
France's gastronomic capital — Vieux-Lyon traboules, Roman theatre 43 BCE, Jacquard loom ancestor of…
Birthplace of the EU — Treaty of Maastricht 1992, Sint-Servaas oldest church in Netherlands, world's…
Las Meninas at the Prado, Guernica at the Reina Sofía, free tapas in La Latina and the world's oldes…
Picasso's birthplace — Moorish Alcazaba, one-armed cathedral, Pompidou Centre, espeto sardines on th…
Sustainable Design & Öresund Gateway…
Industrial Revolution, Football & Northern Soul…
France's Oldest City & Calanques…
Last Supper, Fashion & La Scala…
Europe's Finest Stalinist Capital…
Casino, F1 Circuit & Cliff-Top Principality…
Medieval University City & Mediterranean Gateway…
The Kremlin, Red Square, the world's most beautiful metro and pelmeni with vodka…
Ottoman Bridge & Post-War Reconciliation…
Bavaria's Capital: Beer, Art & Alps…
UNESCO Royal Square & Art Nouveau Capital…
The Giant Mechanical Elephant, Château des Ducs, Jules Verne museum and Muscadet wine…
Pizza, Pompeii & Volcanic Bay…
Côte d'Azur, Matisse Light & Italian Old Town…
Last Divided Capital & Venetian Mediterranean Walls…
Volga-Oka Confluence & Russia's 19th-Century Fair Capital…
EXIT Festival Fortress & Serbian Cultural Capital…
Siberia's Capital: Opera, Science City & Ob Sea…
Imperial City, Dürer, Nazi Trials & Christmas Market…
World's Smallest Capital: Ice Sheet, Mummies & Northern Lights…
Catherine's Black Sea Pearl: Potemkin Stairs & Catacombs…
Earth's Most Photographed Sunset & Bronze Age Pompeii…