The walled corsair city of Brittany, rebuilt stone by stone after 1944, with the biggest tides in Europe.
Cezanne's town of fountains and plane trees, with Mont Sainte-Victoire on the horizon he painted sixty times.
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.
A 12th-century Romanesque cathedral with an astronomical clock and a university town of cobbles and bicycles.
The Granite City sparkles after rain; the gateway to Royal Deeside and the whisky trail.
Pastel houses inside 13th-century walls above two sandy beaches on the Pembrokeshire coast.
Seven bridges over the Tyne, the Georgian curve of Grey Street and the friendliest nightlife in the north.
The Town Musicians, the UNESCO-listed Roland statue and town hall, and the Schnoor lane of medieval cottages.
Edward I's ring of eight towers and the most complete medieval walls in Britain, on the Snowdonia coast.
A 12th-century stone bridge over the Danube and the largest intact medieval city in Germany.
Alfred the Great's capital: the longest Gothic nave in Europe and the Round Table hanging in the Great Hall.
Icebergs the size of cathedrals from the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier drift past the harbour.
The whale-watching capital of Iceland, with humpbacks and blue whales in Skjalfandi Bay.
The V&A Dundee on the Tay and the RRS Discovery, Scott's Antarctic ship, in a reinvented waterfront.
Shakespeare's birthplace, his grave in Holy Trinity, and the Royal Shakespeare Company on the riverbank.
Denmark's oldest town, a Viking market from about 700 with crooked timber houses and storks on the roofs.
The capital of the Highlands, ten minutes from Loch Ness and the Culloden battlefield.
The Frauenkirche rebuilt from rubble, the Zwinger's Old Masters and the Elbe skyline Canaletto painted.
The July jazz festival, the Freddie Mercury statue and Chillon castle along a lakeside promenade.
Ireland's medieval capital: a Norman castle, St Canice's round tower and the Smithwick's brewery.
Flemish gables, the Grand Place and the Braderie, Europe's biggest flea market, every first weekend of September.
King John's Castle on the Shannon and the Milk Market, in the city of Angela's Ashes.
Saltstraumen, the world's strongest tidal current, the midnight sun and the ferry to Lofoten.
Philips' company town turned design city: Dutch Design Week, Strijp-S and the Van Abbemuseum.
Five original Viking ships in the museum and the cathedral where Danish monarchs have been buried since 1400.
Dylan Thomas's 'ugly, lovely town', with the Gower Peninsula's beaches on the doorstep.
The golden sandstone Plaza Mayor and Spain's oldest university, where students hunt for the carved frog.
A student city of the south: the Place de la Comedie, the oldest working medical school in Europe and beaches ten kilometres away.
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