Must-see attractions in Europe

  • Zwack Museum & Visitors' Centre

    Budapest

    Unicum, the thick medicinal-tasting aperitif made from 40 herbs and spices, is as bitter as a loser’s tears and a favourite drink in Hungary. To delve…

  • Walking in the Valley of Butterflies, Rhodes Island, Greece.

    Valley of the Butterflies

    Rhodes

    The so-called Valley of the Butterflies, 7km up from the west coast, and 32km southwest of Rhodes Town, is a major day-trip destination for package…

  • Terrace of the Lions, the famous symbol of Archaeological Site of Delos, Delos Island, Cyclades, Greece.

    Terrace of the Lions

    Delos

    The most-photographed part of the Delos site is this terrace facing the Sacred Lake, lined with stone lions (these are replicas, the originals are in the…

  • The Panorama XXL 360 degrees museum Rouen, France, known for its huge panoramic canvas depicting natural & historic city settings.

    Panorama XXL

    Rouen

    In a large, circular column on the waterfront, Panorama XXL is a massive 360-degree exhibition offering in-depth exploring of one astonishing landscape,…

  • Matenadaran

    Yerevan

    Standing at the top of Yerevan’s grandest avenue, this cathedral-like manuscript library is a source of enormous pride to all Armenians. The first…

  • Abbey Saint Austremoine, Issoire, France.

    Abbatiale St-Austremoine

    Auvergne

    Issoire is the proud home of the Auvergne’s most extravagantly decorated Romanesque church. The exterior of this 12th-century edifice is festooned with…

  • Canoeing on the Oulanka river in Oulanka National Park, Kuusamo region, Finland.

    Oulanka National Park

    Central Finland

    Stretching from Koillismaa to Lapland and along the Russian border, this superb national park was established in 1956 and covers 27,000 hectares of…

  • Green bower in Villa Hanbury Botanic Gardens, near Ventimiglia.

    Giardini Botanici Hanbury

    Ventimiglia

    Established in 1867 by English businessman Sir Thomas Hanbury, the 18-hectare Villa Hanbury estate is planted with 5800 botanical species from five…

  • Ostankino tower

    Ostankino TV Tower

    Moscow

    When the Ostankino TV Tower was built in 1967, it was the tallest free-standing structure in the world (surpassing the Empire State Building). At 540m, it…

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    Radcliffe Camera

    Oxford

    Surely Oxford’s most photographed landmark, the sandy-gold Radcliffe Camera is a beautiful, light-filled, circular, columned library. Built between 1737…

  • The ornate decorations of the St. Gallen Cathedral Interior.

    Dom

    Northeastern Switzerland

    St Gallen's twin-towered, mid-18th-century cathedral is only slightly less ornate than the world-famous Stiftsbibliothek library nearby. The cathedral…

  • Watzmann reflecting in Obersee

    Berchtesgaden National Park

    Berchtesgaden

    Forty years old in 2018, the wilds of this 210-sq-km park still offer some of the best hiking in Germany. A good introduction is a 2km trail up from St…

  • Dolac open market, with Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Stephen (Sveti Stjepan) in background, Zagreb, Croatia

    Dolac Market

    Zagreb

    Right in the heart of the city, Zagreb’s bustling fruit and vegetable market has been trader-central since the 1930s when the city authorities set up a…

  • Ringebu Stave Church in Norway. Built in the first quarter of the 13th century, is one of 28 surviving stave churches and one of the largest.

    Ringebu Stave Church

    Central Norway

    A church has existed on this site since the arrival of Christianity in the 11th century. The current version, which remains the local parish church, dates…

  • Interiors of a church, Temppeliaukion Kirkko, Helsinki, Finland

    Temppeliaukion Kirkko

    Helsinki

    Hewn into solid stone, the Temppeliaukion church, designed by Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen in 1969, feels close to a Finnish ideal of spirituality in nature…

  • Agora Museum

    Athens

    Within the Ancient Agora, this museum is packed with archaeological finds, but can get uncomfortably crowded if a tour group is cycling through. It is set…

  • Eremo di sant'Onofrio al Marrone, Sulmona, Abruzzo, Italy.

    Eremo di Sant’Onofrio al Morrone

    Abruzzo

    This cliff-clinging hermitage with its 15th-century ceiling, 13th-century frescoes, narrow oratory and arched porticoes cowers under a massive rock face…

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    Lighthouse

    Frisian Islands

    Ameland's iconic red-and-white banded lighthouse stands 55m tall on the island's west end. The only lighthouse in the island chain that is open to the…

  • Konditaget Lüders, a recreational space on top of a multi-storey car park in Copenhagen.

    Konditaget Lüders

    Nørrebro & Østerbro

    Copenhagen's JAJA Architects have turned the multilevel car-park concept on its head with their jaw-dropping Konditaget Lüders. Playfully dubbed 'Park and…

  • Locals and tourists walk though a modern bridge over the Manzanares River in the public park of Madrid Río in Madrid, Spain, with the Matadero building (a former slaughterhouse converted to an arts centre) in the background.

    Matadero Madrid

    La Latina & Lavapiés

    This contemporary-arts centre is a stunning multipurpose space south of the centre. Occupying the converted buildings of the old Arganzuela livestock…

  • Entrance to Kraków's Jewish Museum

    Old Synagogue

    Kraków

    This synagogue, dating from the 15th century, is the oldest surviving Jewish house of worship in Poland. During WWII, it was plundered and partly…

  • Wooden bridge at Ravine pond in spring, Wimbledon Common.

    Wimbledon Common

    Richmond, Kew & Hampton Court

    Surging on into Putney Heath, Wimbledon Common blankets a staggering 460 hectares of southwest London. An astonishing expanse of open, wild and wooded…

  • Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga, Spain.

    Museo Carmen Thyssen

    Málaga

    Located in an aesthetically renovated 16th-century palace in the heart of the city’s former Moorish quarter, this extensive collection concentrates on…

  • VENICE, ITALY - JULY 27,2017 : St Mark's Square in Venice on a sunny summer day
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    Piazza San Marco

    Venice

    This grand showpiece square beautifully encapsulates the splendour of Venice's past and its tourist-fuelled present. Flanked by the arcaded Procuratie…

  • Rock carvings at Vitlycke museum, Sweden.

    Vitlycke Museum

    Bohuslän

    If you’re bewildered by the long-armed men, sexual imagery and goat-drawn chariots of Bohuslän's prolific Bronze Age rock carvings, drop by Vitlycke…

  • Pedestrian zone Obere Hauptgasse in Thun, Switzerland.

    Thun Altstadt

    Bernese Oberland

    It’s a pleasure to wander Thun’s attractive riverfront Old Town, where plazas and lanes are punctuated by 15th- and 16th-century townhouses. A stroll…

  • Arykanda

    Turquoise Coast

    Built over five terraces, Arykanda is one of the most dramatically situated ruins in Turkey. The city's most outstanding feature is its 10m-tall two…

  • Two people on a boat sailing in the Glenveagh National Park.

    Glenveagh National Park

    County Donegal

    Lakes shimmer like dew in the mountainous valley of Glenveagh National Park. Alternating between great knuckles of rock, green-gold swaths of bog and…

  • Gul Baba Tomb, Vizivaros.

    Gül Baba’s Tomb

    Óbuda & Buda Hills

    This renovated tomb contains the mortal remains of one Gül Baba, an Ottoman dervish who took part in the capture of Buda in 1541 and is known in Hungary…

  • The Galerie, a great room for the guests, in the Maison Bonaparte in Ajaccio, ancestral home of the Bonaparte family and the birthplace of Napoleon.

    Maison Bonaparte

    Ajaccio

    Unremarkable from the outside, the old-town house where Napoléon was born and spent his first nine years was ransacked by Corsican nationalists in 1793,…

  • Schadau Park and castle on the shore of Lake Thun, Switzerland.

    Schadau Park

    Bernese Oberland

    These beautiful botanical gardens spread along the shores of Lake Thun, with sublime views to the snowcapped Jungfrau range on clear days. The grounds…

  • Galleria at Hall of Philosophers in Capitoline Museum, near Piazza del Campidoglio.

    Museo Capitoline Centrale Montemartini

    Southern Rome

    Housed in a former power station, this bold outpost of the Capitoline Museums (Musei Capitolini) juxtaposes classical sculpture with diesel engines and…

  • House-museum of Jules Verne in Amiens, France.

    Maison de Jules Verne

    Amiens

    Jules Verne (1828–1905) wrote some of his best-known works of brain-tingling – and eerily prescient – science fiction under the eaves of this turreted…

  • Winter in the Swiss Alps, Flumserberg, St.Gallen, Switzerland

    Flumserberg

    Northeastern Switzerland

    For a little Alpine fun, take the winding mountain road to Flumserberg, perched high above the lake and facing the impenetrable rock wall of the…

  • The Raseborg Castle ruins in Finland.

    Raseborg Castle Ruins

    Turku & Finland's South Coast

    Looming on a high rock overlooking a grassy sward, the late-14th-century Raseborg Castle was strategically crucial in the 15th century, when it protected…

  • National Museum Zaječar

    Serbia

    Zaječar's National Museum is where you can admire numerous findings from the Felix Romuliana archaeological site. They include the marble busts of…

  • Chandolin, Switzerland

    Chandolin

    Valais

    The village of Chandolin, high above the valley floor on the eastern side, entices skiers with 75km of broad, sunny runs and fairy-tale panoramas. It is…

  • Martin Gropius Bau, Theater

    Martin-Gropius-Bau

    Berlin

    With its mosaics, terracotta reliefs and airy atrium, this Italian Renaissance–style exhibit space named for its architect (Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius…

  • Summer sunset at Kullaberg nature reserve in southern Sweden.

    Kullaberg Nature Reserve

    Skåne

    This magnificent nature reserve occupies the tip of the Kulla Peninsula and houses Scandinavia’s brightest lighthouse, Kullens fyr, the light of which can…

  • Casa Lis at night - Art Nouveau and Art Deco Museum - Salamanca, Spain.

    Museo de Art Nouveau y Art Decó

    Salamanca

    Utterly unlike any other Salamanca museum, this stunning collection of sculpture, paintings and art deco and art nouveau pieces inhabits a beautiful,…

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