Ali Pasha's lakeside castle, a monastery island and silversmiths, at the foot of the Pindus mountains.
Crete's Venetian harbour with an Egyptian lighthouse, a covered market and the Samaria Gorge nearby.
The oldest city in Western Europe, founded by Phoenicians, with Carnival, beaches and the Atlantic on three sides.
A Roman temple, a chapel lined with bones and whitewashed lanes inside walls, the capital of the Alentejo.
Santa Barbara castle above Postiguet beach and the palm-lined Explanada, the Costa Blanca capital.
Slovenia's only port, a Venetian old town around Tito square on what was once an island.
Coloured houses over the Onyar, the best-preserved Jewish quarter in Spain and Game of Thrones locations.
Armenia's 'little Switzerland': forests, the Haghartsin monastery and Soviet-era spa villas.
The pistachio and baklava capital of Turkey and the Zeugma museum of Roman mosaics.
The Sedlec Ossuary decorated with 40,000 skeletons and the silver-mining cathedral of St Barbara.
Moldavia's old capital: the Palace of Culture, the Three Hierarchs church carved like lace and the oldest university in Romania.
The Albanian Riviera resort opposite Corfu, with Butrint ruins and the Blue Eye spring nearby.
The city where the wind is born: a white-sand beach, Art Nouveau streets and the abandoned Karosta naval prison.
'Here Portugal was born': the castle of the first king and a UNESCO medieval centre.
The Bagrati cathedral, Gelati monastery and the Prometheus cave, in the capital of ancient Colchis.
Plane trees, the Arslanagic bridge and Herzegovinian wine, half an hour from Dubrovnik.
Estonia's summer capital: a long sandy beach, spa hotels and wooden villas.
The Greek theatre where Aeschylus premiered and the island of Ortigia, once the rival of Athens.
Venetian, French and British layers in one UNESCO old town, with cricket on the Spianada.
Chagall's birthplace, his house museum and the Slavianski Bazaar festival each July.
Hungarian Art Nouveau at its most colourful: the town hall, the synagogue and Lake Palic.
The first capital of modern Greece: Venetian fortresses, a Bourtzi island castle and neoclassical lanes.
A square of pastel Renaissance houses between two fishponds, unchanged since the 16th century.
A Saxon walled town under Mount Tampa, the Black Church and Bran castle down the road.
The Holy Trinity Column, six baroque fountains and an astronomical clock rebuilt in socialist realism.
A Venetian Gothic town on a point of the Adriatic, with the Tartini square and salt pans nearby.
The birthplace of Vlad the Impaler inside the best-preserved inhabited medieval citadel in Europe.
A Roman amphitheatre on the beach and the remains of Tarraco, capital of Roman Hispania.
A herringbone-planned walled town said to be Marco Polo's birthplace, with the Moreska sword dance.
The end of the Camino: the cathedral with the swinging Botafumeiro and pilgrims arriving in the Praza do Obradoiro.
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