Every destination

A pocket-sized medieval city of canals, brick gables and Gothic towers — the storybook heart of Flanders.

The world's smallest country — a walled enclave of Renaissance art and Baroque grandeur at the heart of Rome.

Norway's fjord-head capital — a low, walkable city of forested hills, waterfront saunas and a boldly modern skyline.

Sweden's easygoing west-coast port — canals and grand boulevards, seafood halls and a shore of car-free islands.

Sweden's cool, multicultural south — medieval squares, a twisting tower and a bridge to Copenhagen, all wrapped in Öresund sea air.

A harbour capital of copper spires, painted quays and bicycles — where fairy tales, royal palaces and New Nordic cooking meet.

Germany's mighty port on the Elbe — red-brick warehouses, a glassy wave of a concert hall, and more bridges than Venice.

A thousand-year Hanseatic port on the Weser, where a giant stone knight and four bronze animals guard Germany's most storybook market square.

A leafy town just south of Brussels whose name marks the field where Napoleon met his final defeat.

The capital of Belgium and of Europe — gilded guild houses, an irreverent sense of humour, and the continent's finest chocolate, beer and fries.

Where France turns Flemish — ornate brick squares, Europe's biggest flea market, and moules-frites under grey northern skies.

A grand river-city of limestone boulevards, café terraces and Gothic towers — the capital that taught the world how a city should look.

Roman walls, Gothic lanes and Gaudí's dreamlike towers on a warm Mediterranean shore — the restless, art-mad capital of Catalonia.

An open-air museum where emperors, popes and everyday Romans piled three thousand years of stone, golden layer on golden layer.

A fortress city on dramatic sandstone cliffs, its old town riddled with tunnels and split by a deep green gorge.

A bold, modern port city rebuilt from the ashes of war — cube houses, glass towers and a swan-white bridge on the wide grey Maas.

The Netherlands' seat of government and the world's capital of justice — parliament, palaces, Vermeer and a North Sea beach.

A ring of Golden Age canals, gabled merchant houses and world-class art, laced together by bridges and bicycles.

Belgium's great port and diamond city on the Scheldt — Rubens' hometown, wrapped around a soaring Gothic spire.

A low wooden city of coloured warehouses and cobbled lanes, gathered around the grave of a saint-king at the edge of a fjord.

A rebuilt fjord-mouth town where one of Norway's finest salmon rivers, a proud rock-music scene and a working sawmill museum meet.

A quietly handsome Trøndelag town at the head of the fjord — rebuilt after the war, ringed by rock carvings, burial mounds and salmon rivers.

A quiet stone town on the river Meuse whose name marks two hinges of European history — the treaty that split Charlemagne's empire and the longest battle of the First World War.

A quiet hilltop village in the wooded Argonne hills, crowned by a medieval chapel and a wide forest panorama, and marked forever by two world wars.

A compact Walloon town climbing to a belfry on the fertile Hesbaye plain, where a thousand-year abbey grew into Belgium's oldest school of agriculture.

A dead-flat Dutch peat colony strung along two straight canals, where cheap peat fuel once fed a glass industry that made it 'the glass village' of Drenthe.

A cobbled Danish hillside town where a narrow fjord meets a long lake, crowned by a soaring Gothic cathedral and remembered as the cradle of Nordic Protestantism.

A green farming valley strung along one of Norway's great salmon rivers, watched over by a stone church that has stood for more than 800 years.

A tiny fishing village huddled around a sheltered sound on Norway's windswept Fosen coast, where veteran sailing boats still glide through the water each August.

A little white lighthouse with a red top, standing alone on a bare skerry at the edge of the open sea, its stone base painted an unexplained green.

A vast, treeless mountain plateau in central Norway, crowned by glacier-capped Snøhetta and roamed by wild reindeer and the only musk oxen in mainland Europe.

A broad valley town ringed by mountains, where a huge Viking burial field, a royal mountain road and Norway's wild musk oxen frame one of its great outdoor playgrounds.

A wooden town climbing the hills above Norway's largest lake, where Olympic ski jumps crown the ridge and a Nobel novelist once wrote by the fire.

A fertile green peninsula reaching into the Trondheimsfjord, famous as the ancient seat of the Frostating — one of Norway's oldest law-assemblies.

A small, low, flat island in the Trondheimsfjord where the ruins of a medieval abbey and a light modern nunnery share green meadows and birdsong.

A tiny wooded islet in the Trondheimsfjord, ringed by a round 17th-century fortress and layered with a thousand years of monks, prisoners and executions.

Denmark's storybook third city on the island of Funen — Hans Christian Andersen's birthplace, wrapped around a cathedral that guards a murdered king.