A Livonian Order castle, a cobbled old town and Gauja National Park for canoeing and bobsleigh.
Two castles face each other across the river โ Estonian Hermann and Russian Ivangorod โ on the EU border.
Estonia's summer capital: a long sandy beach, spa hotels and wooden villas.
Hungary's largest church on a hill above the Danube bend, the old royal and religious capital.
A medieval Firewatch Tower over a Gothic and baroque centre on the Austrian border, next to Lake Neusiedl.
A baroque old town at the meeting of three rivers, halfway between Vienna and Budapest.
Early Christian tombs, a mosque turned church on the main square and Zsolnay ceramics.
A castle on a rock above the Vah with a Roman inscription from AD 179 carved into the cliff.
A complete medieval square with a Gothic town hall, spa villas and wooden churches nearby.
Master Paul's 18-metre carved altar, the tallest Gothic altar in the world, inside a walled Spis town.
The Vitkovice ironworks turned festival ground and the Stodolni street of a hundred bars.
A square of pastel Renaissance houses between two fishponds, unchanged since the 16th century.
The Sedlec Ossuary decorated with 40,000 skeletons and the silver-mining cathedral of St Barbara.
The Holy Trinity Column, six baroque fountains and an astronomical clock rebuilt in socialist realism.
Otzi the Iceman in the museum and a bilingual Tyrolean town at the gates of the Dolomites.
Sardinia's capital: the Castello quarter, Poetto beach and flamingos in the salt lagoons.
The Greek theatre where Aeschylus premiered and the island of Ortigia, once the rival of Athens.
The Leaning Tower is one of four marble buildings on the Field of Miracles; the rest of the city is a student town.
Madeira's capital: wicker toboggans down from Monte, the flower market and Madeira wine lodges.
'Here Portugal was born': the castle of the first king and a UNESCO medieval centre.
Painted moliceiro boats on the canals, Art Nouveau facades and ovos moles egg sweets.
The Algarve capital, with a walled old town, storks nesting on the cathedral and the Ria Formosa lagoon.
Portugal's oldest city and its religious heart, with the baroque stairway of Bom Jesus do Monte.
A Roman temple, a chapel lined with bones and whitewashed lanes inside walls, the capital of the Alentejo.
Las Canteras city beach, the Vegueta colonial quarter and the house where Columbus stopped.
A Roman amphitheatre on the beach and the remains of Tarraco, capital of Roman Hispania.
Santa Barbara castle above Postiguet beach and the palm-lined Explanada, the Costa Blanca capital.
Coloured houses over the Onyar, the best-preserved Jewish quarter in Spain and Game of Thrones locations.
Mallorca's capital: the seafront Gothic cathedral La Seu, Arab baths and the Tramuntana mountains behind.
The end of the Camino: the cathedral with the swinging Botafumeiro and pilgrims arriving in the Praza do Obradoiro.
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