A golden sandstone fort still lived in, and camel safaris into the Thar desert dunes.
A Kremlin on the bluff where the Oka meets the Volga, and the longest cable car across a river in Europe.
Slovenia's oldest town, a Roman settlement with a castle and the shaggy Kurent masks of carnival.
A Roman aqueduct of 167 arches without mortar and the fairy-tale Alcazar that inspired Disney.
A Livonian Order castle, a cobbled old town and Gauja National Park for canoeing and bobsleigh.
'Here Portugal was born': the castle of the first king and a UNESCO medieval centre.
The Castle of St Peter built from the Mausoleum's stones, wooden gulet cruises and the Aegean nightlife.
A castle on a rock above the Vah with a Roman inscription from AD 179 carved into the cliff.
Two castles face each other across the river โ Estonian Hermann and Russian Ivangorod โ on the EU border.
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.
Santa Barbara castle above Postiguet beach and the palm-lined Explanada, the Costa Blanca capital.
Ali Pasha's lakeside castle, a monastery island and silversmiths, at the foot of the Pindus mountains.
The first capital of modern Greece: Venetian fortresses, a Bourtzi island castle and neoclassical lanes.
A town of stairs, a Mimosa festival in February and three fortresses at the mouth of the Bay of Kotor.
A 17-metre waterfall in the middle of town, a fortress and the last Bosnian royal capital.
The Cathedral of St James built entirely of stone, four fortresses and the boat to Krka waterfalls.
A church on an island in an alpine lake, a castle on the cliff and cream cake on the shore.
A medieval fortress on a rock in a canyon of the Smotrych river, the most dramatic castle in Ukraine.
A red-brick island castle in Lake Galve and the kibinai pastries of the Karaim community.
The cherry-blossom capital of Transcarpathia, a castle and Europeโs longest linden alley along the Uzh.
The July jazz festival, the Freddie Mercury statue and Chillon castle along a lakeside promenade.
A castle on a crag above the battlefields of Wallace and Bruce โ Scotland's history in one town.
Kronborg, Hamlet's Elsinore, guarding the narrowest point of the Oresund opposite Sweden.
Edward I's ring of eight towers and the most complete medieval walls in Britain, on the Snowdonia coast.
King John's Castle on the Shannon and the Milk Market, in the city of Angela's Ashes.
The oldest of San Marinoโs three towers, an 11th-century fortress on Monte Titano with views to the Adriatic.
A 17th-century British fortress on a volcanic hill, the "Gibraltar of the West Indies", with views to five islands.
The "witchesโ passage" walkway between the Guaita and Cesta towers.
Second tower on Monte Titanoโs highest summit, home to the ancient-arms museum.
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