The pool of sacred carp where Abraham was thrown into the fire, and Gobekli Tepe, the oldest temple on Earth, nearby.
Slovenia's oldest town, a Roman settlement with a castle and the shaggy Kurent masks of carnival.
Crete's Venetian harbour with an Egyptian lighthouse, a covered market and the Samaria Gorge nearby.
Santa Barbara castle above Postiguet beach and the palm-lined Explanada, the Costa Blanca capital.
The port city, European Capital of Culture 2020, with the Trsat castle and the Rijeka carnival.
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.
Sardinia's capital: the Castello quarter, Poetto beach and flamingos in the salt lagoons.
The Holy Trinity Column, six baroque fountains and an astronomical clock rebuilt in socialist realism.
The oldest city in Western Europe, founded by Phoenicians, with Carnival, beaches and the Atlantic on three sides.
A baroque city built of black lava at the foot of Etna, with the loudest fish market in Sicily.
Medieval defence towers in the high Svaneti valleys, the base for treks to Ushguli and glaciers.
Slovenia's only port, a Venetian old town around Tito square on what was once an island.
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.
The city where the wind is born: a white-sand beach, Art Nouveau streets and the abandoned Karosta naval prison.
A Roman aqueduct of 167 arches without mortar and the fairy-tale Alcazar that inspired Disney.
The ruined Art Nouveau casino on the Black Sea, a Roman mosaic and the beach resort of Mamaia.
A Venetian Gothic town on a point of the Adriatic, with the Tartini square and salt pans nearby.
A Greek theatre with Etna and the sea as backdrop, and the town that hosted The White Lotus.
The birthplace of Vlad the Impaler inside the best-preserved inhabited medieval citadel in Europe.
The Leaning Tower is one of four marble buildings on the Field of Miracles; the rest of the city is a student town.
The 'city of love' on a hill above the Alazani valley, inside 18th-century walls in the Kakheti wine region.
A complete medieval square with a Gothic town hall, spa villas and wooden churches nearby.
Otzi the Iceman in the museum and a bilingual Tyrolean town at the gates of the Dolomites.
The Sedlec Ossuary decorated with 40,000 skeletons and the silver-mining cathedral of St Barbara.
The town of a thousand windows: Ottoman houses stacked up a hillside below a still-inhabited castle.
The winter-cycling capital of the world and the Air Guitar World Championships, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
The home of golf and Scotland's oldest university, with a ruined cathedral above the sea.
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