Europe Travel Destinations | Cities & Places to Visit

Maribor

Slovenia's second city on the Drava River, home to the world's oldest producing grapevine and the country's biggest ski resort.

La Spezia

A lively Ligurian port city and the easiest gateway to Cinque Terre, Portovenere, and the Gulf of Poets.

Viareggio

A grand Tuscan seaside resort known for its Liberty-style promenade, sandy beaches, and famous Carnival.

Cheltenham

Britain's most complete Regency town, famed for horse racing, festivals, and easy access to the Cotswolds.

Harrogate

A genteel Yorkshire spa town famed for its Turkish Baths, tea rooms, and gardens near the Yorkshire Dales.

Torrevieja

A Costa Blanca resort town known for its pink salt lakes, sandy beaches, and lively seafront promenade.

Arrecife

Lanzarote's laid-back capital, shaped by artist César Manrique, with castles, a lagoon, and volcanic scenery nearby.

Roquetas de Mar

A sun-soaked Costa de Almeria resort town with long sandy beaches, a historic castle and 3,000 hours of sunshine a year.

Chiclana de la Frontera

A Costa de la Luz beach town near Cadiz known for La Barrosa beach, wine bodegas, golf courses and fresh Atlantic seafood.

Vélez-Málaga

The historic capital of the Axarquía, pairing a Moorish old town with the coastal beaches of Torre del Mar and Caleta de Vélez.

Sanlúcar de Barrameda

A Guadalquivir river-mouth town famous for manzanilla sherry, king prawns, beach horse races and gateway access to Doñana.

Gandia

A Valencian beach city pairing the Borgia family's ducal palace with 7km of Blue Flag sand and the birthplace of fideuà.

Ceuta

A Spanish autonomous city on Africa's coast, blending Royal Walls, tax-free shopping and Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Hindu heritage.

Melilla

A Spanish city on Morocco's coast, Melilla blends modernist architecture, a walled Old Town, sandy beaches, and Amazigh, Sephardic, and Iberian culture.

Volos

A Thessaly port city below Mount Pelion, Volos blends a lively seafront tsipouro culture with easy access to mountain villages and Sporades islands.

Kalamata

A sun-soaked Peloponnese port city known for olives, a castle-topped old town, and easy day trips across Messenia.

Ioánnina

A mountain-ringed lake city in Epirus known for its fortified old town, silverwork, and gateway location for Zagorochoria and Vikos Gorge.

Kavála

A historic Aegean port city in northern Greece known as the 'Blue City,' with a castle-topped old town and ferries to Thassos.

Alexandroupoli

A Thracian port city on the Aegean known for its landmark lighthouse and ferry link to Samothrace island.

Karlskrona

A UNESCO-listed baroque naval city on Sweden's south coast, gateway to a 1,600-island Baltic archipelago.