Must-see attractions in Western Europe

  • Dining outside the Pump Rooms while watching street performers

    Pump Room

    Bath

    The centre of this grand 19th-century room is filled with tables from the Pump Room Restaurant, but there's also an ornate spa fountain from which Bath's…

  • York, United Kingdom - October 2, 2016: View of Clifford's Tower, a Norman Motte and Bailey castle in York, England, with visitors climbing the steps to see the attraction.

    Clifford's Tower

    York

    There's precious little left of York Castle except for this evocative stone tower, a highly unusual four-lobed design built into the castle's keep after…

  • Convento dos Lóios

    Évora

    The former Convento dos Lóios, to the right of Igreja de São João, has elegant Gothic cloisters topped by a Renaissance gallery. A national monument, the…

  • Ornate buildings on boardwalk

    Brighton Pier

    Brighton & Hove

    This grand old Edwardian pier is the place to experience Brighton’s tackier side. There are plenty of stomach-churning fairground rides and noisy…

  • Serpentine Sackler Gallery

    Kensington & Hyde Park

    This exhibition space is part of the Serpentine Galleries, located within the Magazine, a former Palladian villa–style gunpowder depot dating to 1805,…

  • M HKA

    Antwerp

    M HKA is considered to be one of Belgium's best contemporary galleries. Its exhibitions focus on work produced since the 1970s by both Belgian and…

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    Musée National Marc Chagall

    Nice

    The strange, dreamlike and often unsettling work of the Belarusian painter Marc Chagall (1887–1985) is displayed at this museum, which owns the largest…

  • Leeds Art Gallery façade

    Leeds Art Gallery

    Leeds

    This major gallery is packed with 19th- and 20th-century British heavyweights – Turner, Constable, Stanley Spencer, Wyndham Lewis et al – along with…

  • The outside of the Icon Factory

    Icon Factory

    Temple Bar

    This artists' collective in the heart of Temple Bar hosts exhibitions on Ireland’s cultural heritage. You’ll find colourful, unique souvenirs celebrating…

  • Young Goat Kid looking at camera

    De Ridammerhoeve

    Amsterdam

    A remarkable place in Amsterdamse Bos is this organic working goat farm, where kids can feed bottles of milk to, well, kids (€1 for a bottle) in season…

  • The National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg: February 15, 2017 - This MNHA building was inaugurated in 2002; Shutterstock ID 580937212; Your name (First / Last): Daniel Fahey; GL account no.: 65050; Netsuite department name: Online Editorial; Full Product or Project name including edition: Luxembourg City POI

    MNHA

    Luxembourg City

    Startlingly modern for its Old Town setting, the national art and history museum starts deep in an excavated rocky basement with exhibits of Neolithic…

  • Bunratty Castle & Folk Park

    County Clare

    Dating from the 15th century, square, hulking Bunratty Castle is only the latest of several edifices to occupy its location beside the River Ratty…

  • giraffes strolling in the grass on fota wildlife park in county cork ireland

    Fota Wildlife Park

    County Cork

    Kangaroos bound, cheetahs run, and monkeys and gibbons leap and scream on wooded islands at this huge outdoor zoo, where the animals roam without a cage…

  • All Saints church

    All Saints Margaret Street

    The West End

    In 1859, architect William Butterfield completed one of the country's most supreme examples of High Victorian Gothic architecture, with extraordinary…

  • Praça da Batalha

    Praça da Batalha

    Aliados & Bolhão

    At the southern end of Rua de Santa Catarina is the lovely, eclectic Praça da Batalha, framed by Nasoni’s gracefully baroque Igreja de Santo Ildefonso…

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    Belfast Zoo

    Belfast

    Home to 120 species, Belfast Zoo has spacious enclosures set on an attractive, sloping site; the sea lion and penguin pool with its underwater viewing is…

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    Natuurcentrum Ameland

    Frisian Islands

    Just north of Nes village, this centre features an excellent seaquarium in which a number of North Sea species swim around, including manta rays,…

  • The front of the Queens College on High Street

    Queen's College

    Oxford

    Known for its musical excellence, this college is steeped in esteem and heritage. Although founded in 1341, its main claims to architectural fame are the…

  • Dublin, Ireland - Sept 26, 2020: Big group of adult people attending outdoor class, practicing social distancing and exercising yoga outside on lawn on sunny warm autumn day in Marlay Park. Lifestyle; Shutterstock ID 1901169343; your: Bridget Brown; gl: 65050; netsuite: Online Editorial; full: POI Image Update

    Marlay House & Park

    Dublin

    Marlay Park, 9km south of the city centre, is a wonderful 83-hectare open space, with 17th-century buildings, wooded areas, duck ponds, abundant wildlife,…

  • The perfect picnic spot at The Circus

    The Circus

    Bath

    The Circus is a Georgian masterpiece. Built to John Wood the Elder's design and completed in 1768, it's said to have been inspired by the Colosseum in…

  • Geffrye Museum.

    Museum of the Home

    Clerkenwell, Shoreditch & Spitalfields

    These beautiful ivy-clad brick almshouses, which are closed until summer 2020 for renovations, were built in 1714 as a home for poor pensioners. Two rooms…

  • Atlantaquaria

    Galway City

    More than 150 freshwater and sea-dwelling creatures from local waters swim in Ireland's largest native-species aquarium, including seahorses, sharks and…

  • Poolbeg Chimneys visible from Dollymount Strand

    Dollymount Strand

    Dublin

    In the coastal suburb of Clontarf, follow the tang of sea air from the promenade across the wooden footbridge and continue down Bull Walk, enjoying an…

  • UK National Football musuem

    National Football Museum

    Manchester

    This museum charts the evolution of British football from its earliest days to the multi-billion-pound phenomenon it is today. One of the highlights is…

  • The Baroque main church at Convento Sao Pedro de Alcantara

    Convento de São Pedro de Alcântara

    Bairro Alto, Chiado & Cais do Sodré

    This convent is small in size but grand in baroque decor. The inconspicuous box-like facade hides a chapel (1690s), and a church (1681) that survived the…

  • Museum Chocolate and cocoa facade

    Musée du Cacao et du Chocolat

    Brussels

    Exhibits at Brussels’ museum of cocoa and chocolate give you a quick rundown of chocolate’s history in Europe, along with chocolate’s anti-aging and…

  • MIMA

    Brussels

    On the banks of the Brussels Canal, the engaged and engaging Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art (MIMA) showcases contemporary art with a permanent…

  • Sign for the Irish Family History Centre

    Irish Family History Centre

    Dublin

    Discover your family history with interactive screens where you can track your surname and centuries of Irish emigration. The ticket price includes a 15…

  • The pierside entrance to the SEALIFE Brighton aquarium

    SEA LIFE Brighton

    Brighton & Hove

    Not just for children, this aquarium is an underground exhibition of nature's fascinating water creatures. Walking around the church-like interior,…

  • Portugal, Algarve, Ilha de Faro, footprints on sandy beach

    Praia de Faro

    Faro

    On the Ilha de Faro, 9km west of the centre, the town's beach has sweeping sand, windsurfing and kitesurfing operators, and a handful of cafes. It's…

  • Scattery Island

    County Clare

    This uninhabited, windswept and treeless island in the estuary 3km southwest of Kilrush was the site of a Christian settlement founded by St Senan in the…

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    Cemitério dos Prazeres

    Lisbon

    Most visitors come to this cemetery, the largest in Lisbon, for the view of the Rio Tejo right next to the artists' plot. But the elaborate baroque family…

  • Wicklow's Historic Gaol

    County Wicklow

    Wicklow's infamous jail was notorious throughout Ireland for the brutality of its keepers and the harsh conditions suffered by its inmates. The smells,…

  • Image of the author at James Joyce Museum.

    James Joyce Tower & Museum

    County Dublin

    This tower is where the action begins in Joyce's epic novel Ulysses. The museum was opened in 1962 by Sylvia Beach, the Paris-based publisher who first…

  • Musée BELvue

    Musée BELvue

    Brussels

    Take a chronological audio tour through the airy stuccoed interior of this former royal residence to explore Belgium’s history from independence to today,…

  • Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, Europe

    Jardin du Pharo

    Marseille

    Perched high above the southern side of the Vieux Port are the six immaculately grassed hectares of the Jardin du Pharo, the grounds of the Palais du…

  • Kensal Green Cemetery

    Notting Hill & West London

    For many years the most fashionable necropolis in England (you wouldn’t be seen dead anywhere else), Kensal Green Cemetery accepted its first occupants in…

  • Outside the entrance to Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

    Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

    Leith

    This state-of-the-art building located on an old railway siding is the first purpose-built centre dedicated to sculpture in the UK. There are regular…

  • Two Temple Place exterior

    Two Temple Place

    The West End

    This neo-Gothic house built in the late 1890s for William Waldorf Astor, of hotel fame and once the richest man in America, showcases art from UK museum…

  • HJCM51 Great Britain, South West England, Devon, Exeter, Exeter Guildhall, one of the oldest municipal buildings in England still in use

    Guildhall

    Exeter

    The earliest parts of Exeter's Guildhall date from 1330, making it the oldest municipal building still in use in the country. An ornate barrel roof arches…

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