Germany's sunniest city: a Gothic minster, little water channels in the streets and the Black Forest behind.
Three medieval towers guard the old port; the Ile de Re is a bridge away.
The Icehotel at Jukkasjarvi, the Esrange space base and a town being moved to make way for the iron mine.
Flemish gables, the Grand Place and the Braderie, Europe's biggest flea market, every first weekend of September.
White wooden houses, the oil museum and the boat to Pulpit Rock and the Lysefjord.
A Norman cathedral and castle on a rock in a loop of the River Wear, the finest Romanesque building in Europe.
Britain's second city has more canal miles than Venice, the Balti Triangle and Peaky Blinders' Black Country next door.
Palm trees and Italian coffee on a Swiss lake, with Monte Bre and San Salvatore funiculars above.
A student city of the south: the Place de la Comedie, the oldest working medical school in Europe and beaches ten kilometres away.
A castle on a crag above the battlefields of Wallace and Bruce — Scotland's history in one town.
Shakespeare's birthplace, his grave in Holy Trinity, and the Royal Shakespeare Company on the riverbank.
The sauna capital of the world, between two lakes, in red-brick factories turned museums and bars.
The Palace of the Popes, the broken bridge of the song and the biggest theatre festival in the world each July.
A UNESCO old town on seven hills, a town hall built on an island in the river and smoked Rauchbier.
A planned Georgian town at the foot of Croagh Patrick, the pilgrimage mountain climbed barefoot every July.
The walled corsair city of Brittany, rebuilt stone by stone after 1944, with the biggest tides in Europe.
Monet's cathedral, the square where Joan of Arc was burned and the Gros-Horloge astronomical clock.
The only complete walled city in Ireland, the Bogside murals and the Peace Bridge over the Foyle.
Saltstraumen, the world's strongest tidal current, the midnight sun and the ferry to Lofoten.
The capital of the Hanseatic League: the Holstentor gate, seven brick spires and Niederegger marzipan.
The mechanical elephant of Les Machines de l'Ile, the Dukes' castle and the city Jules Verne grew up in.
Red wooden riverside warehouses and cobbled lanes, the second-oldest town in Finland.
Rembrandt's birthplace and the oldest university in the Netherlands, with canals quieter than Amsterdam's.
Where two seas meet at the tip of Jutland, in the light that drew the Skagen painters.
Van Gogh's town, with a Roman amphitheatre still hosting bullfights and the Camargue at its edge.
Riverside capital on the White Nile.
Palau's main town and gateway.
Sleepy colonial island capital.
Cobbled capital of stone arches, the botanical gardens where Bligh’s breadfruit was planted, and Fort Charlotte above.
Samoa’s waterfront capital: the fish market, the Immaculate Conception cathedral and Sunday church singing.
Infobox
