Slovenia's oldest town, a Roman settlement with a castle and the shaggy Kurent masks of carnival.
A Venetian Gothic town on a point of the Adriatic, with the Tartini square and salt pans nearby.
A church on an island in an alpine lake, a castle on the cliff and cream cake on the shore.
Hungarian Art Nouveau at its most colourful: the town hall, the synagogue and Lake Palic.
Constantine the Great's birthplace, the Ottoman Skull Tower and Serbia's capital of grilled meat.
A 12-kilometre sand beach, an old pirate town on a rock and the Ada Bojana river island.
A town of stairs, a Mimosa festival in February and three fortresses at the mouth of the Bay of Kotor.
The old royal capital in a mountain valley, with former embassies and the monastery of St Peter.
Baroque palaces facing Our Lady of the Rocks, an artificial island built from sunk ships and stones.
A walled medieval town at the end of a fjord-like bay, with 1,350 steps up to the fortress of St John.
A herringbone-planned walled town said to be Marco Polo's birthplace, with the Moreska sword dance.
The port city, European Capital of Culture 2020, with the Trsat castle and the Rijeka carnival.
The Cathedral of St James built entirely of stone, four fortresses and the boat to Krka waterfalls.
One of the six largest Roman amphitheatres, still hosting concerts and film festivals.
The main Bulgarian ski resort under the Pirin mountains, with a stone old town and mehana taverns.
Forty Byzantine churches on a rocky peninsula tied to the mainland by a causeway.
The 16th-century Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic bridge of Ivo Andric's Nobel novel, over the Drina.
A 17-metre waterfall in the middle of town, a fortress and the last Bosnian royal capital.
Plane trees, the Arslanagic bridge and Herzegovinian wine, half an hour from Dubrovnik.
The Albanian Riviera resort opposite Corfu, with Butrint ruins and the Blue Eye spring nearby.
Rozafa castle above the largest lake in the Balkans, the bicycle city and the gateway to the Albanian Alps.
The town of a thousand windows: Ottoman houses stacked up a hillside below a still-inhabited castle.
The cherry-blossom capital of Transcarpathia, a castle and Europeโs longest linden alley along the Uzh.
A medieval fortress on a rock in a canyon of the Smotrych river, the most dramatic castle in Ukraine.
The Habsburg 'little Vienna' of Bukovina, with a UNESCO university that was once the Metropolitan's residence.
Freedom Square, one of Europe's largest, and the constructivist Derzhprom building, in Ukraine's second city.
Chagall's birthplace, his house museum and the Slavianski Bazaar festival each July.
A red-brick island castle in Lake Galve and the kibinai pastries of the Karaim community.
A German-built port on the Baltic, the ferry to the Curonian Spit and its sand dunes.
The city where the wind is born: a white-sand beach, Art Nouveau streets and the abandoned Karosta naval prison.
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