The Kaiserburg above a rebuilt medieval city, the Nazi rally grounds and the Nuremberg trials courtroom.
The city of three cultures on a rock above the Tagus, with El Greco, a synagogue and a Damascene steel trade.
The Ars Electronica Center on the Danube, Linzer torte and a steel city turned culture capital.
Half-timbered Alsace at its prettiest, the Isenheim Altarpiece and the Alsace wine route on the doorstep.
The oldest Dutch city, on the Meuse between Belgium and Germany, where the EU treaty was signed in 1992.
The pebble beach, the Palace Pier and the Royal Pavilion, an Indian-style palace built for a Regency prince.
The Mercedes-Benz and Porsche museums in a valley of vineyards, with the Black Forest an hour away.
La Concha bay, pintxos bars in the old town and more Michelin stars per head than anywhere else.
Rebuilt in Art Nouveau after the 1904 fire, spread over islands at the mouth of the Geirangerfjord.
The Olympic Museum on a hillside above Lake Geneva, with the Lavaux vineyard terraces next door.
Walk the complete Roman and medieval walls and the two-tier Tudor shopping galleries of the Rows.
The cycling capital of a cycling country, with the Martini tower and the youngest population in the Netherlands.
The cathedral where French kings were crowned and the champagne houses tunnelled into the chalk beneath it.
The Jet d Eau, the United Nations and the Red Cross, on the lake where the Rhone leaves the Alps.
A castle on a crag above the battlefields of Wallace and Bruce — Scotland's history in one town.
The cathedral where Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170, the destination of Chaucer's pilgrims.
The 1994 Winter Olympics town, with the Maihaugen open-air museum and the ski jump you can ride down.
Where European surfing began in 1957 — Napoleon III's beach resort on the Basque coast.
Norway's summer city on the south coast, with the zoo and Fiskebrygga fish quay.
The Icehotel at Jukkasjarvi, the Esrange space base and a town being moved to make way for the iron mine.
White wooden houses, the oil museum and the boat to Pulpit Rock and the Lysefjord.
The Lindwurm dragon fountain and the warm waters of Lake Worthersee, the summer capital of Carinthia.
Bach's church, the peaceful revolution of 1989 and the artists' halls of the old Spinnerei cotton mill.
A planned Georgian town at the foot of Croagh Patrick, the pilgrimage mountain climbed barefoot every July.
Altbier in the 'longest bar in the world', Gehry's dancing towers at the harbour and the Konigsallee.
Ireland's oldest city, founded by Vikings in 914 and still cutting the crystal that carries its name.
Germany's sunniest city: a Gothic minster, little water channels in the streets and the Black Forest behind.
A Norman cathedral and castle on a rock in a loop of the River Wear, the finest Romanesque building in Europe.
The Palace of the Popes, the broken bridge of the song and the biggest theatre festival in the world each July.
Red wooden riverside warehouses and cobbled lanes, the second-oldest town in Finland.
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