The Dolomites are a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps, spread across South Tyrol, Trentino, and Belluno, with 18 peaks rising above 3,000 meters. The pale rock that gives them their colour and their name began as a tropical atoll some 230 million years ago, and the whole range was inscribed as a UNESCO […]
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Ferrara sits in Emilia-Romagna on the plain of the Po, about half an hour by train from Bologna and ninety minutes from Venice. Ruled for three centuries by the House of Este, it was one of the first cities in Europe extended according to a deliberate urban plan, and its walled centre has kept both […]
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Doha is the capital of Qatar, stretched along a crescent-shaped bay on the Persian Gulf. The city splits cleanly in two along the Corniche: the historic side with Souq Waqif, the dhow harbour, and the Museum of Islamic Art, and across the water the West Bay skyline, built almost entirely within the last three decades. […]
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Paris is the capital of France, built along the Seine and organised in twenty arrondissements that spiral outward from the Louvre. Most of the landmarks cluster within a compact core: the Louvre, the Palais Garnier, and the Tuileries on the right bank, the Musée d’Orsay and the Eiffel Tower across the river, and Montmartre with […]
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Rome is the capital of Italy, built on the Tiber across more than 2,500 years of continuous construction, with ancient forums, Baroque squares, and a working city layered on top of each other. Vatican City, the world’s smallest state, sits as an enclave on the river’s west bank. The historic centre is compact: the Colosseum, […]
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Malaysia sits at the heart of Southeast Asia, split between the Malay Peninsula and the northern part of Borneo, with the Strait of Malacca carrying a large share of the world’s shipping past its west coast. Kuala Lumpur, the capital, is a city of glass towers rising over low wooden neighbourhoods, and the Langkawi archipelago […]
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The Netherlands is a country on the North Sea where about a quarter of the land lies below sea level, kept dry by a centuries-old system of dikes, canals, and pumping mills. Amsterdam, the capital, holds a 17th-century canal ring at its core, and the open polder landscape with its windmills begins less than half […]
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Bulgaria sits in the southeast of Europe, between the Danube and the Aegean watershed, and almost everything in it is shaped by mountains: dozens of ranges fold the country from the Balkan chain in the centre to Rila, Pirin, and the Rhodopes in the south. Sofia, the capital, lies at the foot of Vitosha Mountain; […]
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Greece stretches from the Balkan mainland into the Aegean and Ionian seas, with more than two hundred inhabited islands scattered off its coast. Athens concentrates around a third of the country’s population under the Acropolis, Thessaloniki anchors the north, and the Dodecanese islands, with Rhodes at their head, lie far to the southeast within sight […]
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Dubrovnik sits at the southern end of Croatia’s Dalmatian coast, a walled city that ran its own affairs for centuries as the Republic of Ragusa. The historic core is closed to cars and completely encircled by fortifications, with the Adriatic on one side and the Dinaric mountains rising directly behind. Together with its walls, the […]
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Croatia runs along the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, from the Istrian peninsula in the north to Dubrovnik near the border with Montenegro. More than a thousand islands lie off its coast, and the Dalmatian shore between Split and Dubrovnik holds most of the country’s famous stone towns, with Roman, Venetian, and Ragusan architecture […]
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Munich is the capital of Bavaria and Germany’s third-largest city, set on the Isar River an hour north of the Alps. Its compact centre gathers most of the city’s landmarks within walking distance of one square, and its rhythm runs noticeably slower than Berlin’s: a city of beer gardens, opera, and royal architecture that wears […]
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Austria sits at the centre of the Alps, a country of nine federal states where imperial cities and high mountain landscapes trade places within an hour’s drive. Vienna anchors the east with the legacy of the Habsburg empire, Salzburg guards the north edge of the Alps, and between them stretches the Salzkammergut lake district with […]
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Wieliczka is a small town just southeast of Kraków whose name stands for one thing: the salt mine that has been worked beneath it since the 13th century. Some 300 kilometres of corridors spread across nine levels under the streets, carved over 700 years into chapels, chambers, and underground lakes. Along with the historic centre […]
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Poland stretches from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Carpathian Mountains on its southern border, with most of its historic cities strung across the plains between them. Kraków, Warsaw, Wrocław, Poznań, and Gdańsk each carry a different century of the country’s story, while Zakopane and the Tatra Mountains give it an alpine south. […]
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Mariánské Lázně is a spa town of some 13,000 people in the Karlovy Vary Region of West Bohemia, ringed by the wooded hills of the Slavkov Forest near the German border. Known to the world for two centuries as Marienbad, it forms the golden trinity of West Bohemian spas together with Karlovy Vary and Františkovy […]
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The Czech Republic sits landlocked in the centre of Europe, bordered by Germany, Austria, Poland, and Slovakia, with the historical regions of Bohemia in the west and Moravia in the east. Prague, its capital on the Vltava River, holds one of the largest intact historic city centres on the continent. Beyond it lie the spa […]
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Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia and Spain’s second city, pressed between the Collserola hills and the Mediterranean. Its layout tells its history at a glance: the dense medieval lanes of the Ciutat Vella at the centre, surrounded by the Eixample, the 19th-century grid that gave modernisme its canvas. Antoni Gaudí built most of his […]
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Peñíscola sits on the Costa del Azahar, the Orange Blossom Coast, roughly halfway between Valencia and Barcelona. Its walled old town occupies a rocky peninsula that gave the place its name, from the Latin for peninsula, and carries a Templar castle on top; locals call it the city in the sea. South of the town, […]
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Menorca is the easternmost of Spain’s Balearic Islands, a quieter neighbour to Mallorca that UNESCO declared a Biosphere Reserve in 1993. Its two towns, Maó in the east and Ciutadella in the west, bracket an interior of farmland and a coastline that alternates between white limestone coves in the south and dark, wind-worn headlands in […]
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Spain covers most of the Iberian Peninsula and reaches far beyond it: the Balearic Islands of Mallorca and Menorca in the Mediterranean, and the volcanic Canary Islands off the coast of Africa. Madrid, the highest capital in the European Union, sits at its geographic centre, with Barcelona, Valencia, and Zaragoza spread along the north and […]
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Setúbal is a port city about 50 kilometres south of Lisbon, set on the Sado estuary at the foot of the Serra da Arrábida. It is one of Portugal’s great fishing towns, the home of Moscatel wine, and the gateway to some of the finest coastline near the capital: the Arrábida mountains, the white sands […]
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Cascais is a coastal town at the western end of the Estoril coast, about 30 kilometres west of Lisbon and an easy train ride from the city along the seafront line. It began as a fishing village and became a fashionable resort in 1870, when the Portuguese royal family chose it as their summer residence […]
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Coimbra is a university city in central Portugal, built up a steep hill above the Mondego River roughly halfway between Lisbon and Porto. It was the capital of the country from 1131 to 1255, and it holds one of the oldest universities in the world, which still sets the rhythm of the streets below it. […]
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