The capital of the Dukes of Burgundy: mustard, the Owl trail through the old town and the Cote d'Or vineyards south.
The capital of the Hanseatic League: the Holstentor gate, seven brick spires and Niederegger marzipan.
The base for the Ring of Kerry, with Killarney National Park, its lakes and red deer next to town.
A Hanseatic town of roses and ruins inside 3.4 km of medieval wall on Gotland.
Palm trees and Italian coffee on a Swiss lake, with Monte Bre and San Salvatore funiculars above.
Goethe's and Schiller's houses, the birthplace of the Bauhaus, and Buchenwald on the hill above.
The capital of the Westfjords on a spit of sand between mountains, the start of Hornstrandir hikes.
A fishing town of pubs and trad sessions at the end of the Dingle Peninsula, the westernmost point of Europe.
A UNESCO old town on seven hills, a town hall built on an island in the river and smoked Rauchbier.
The mechanical elephant of Les Machines de l'Ile, the Dukes' castle and the city Jules Verne grew up in.
Victorian arcades, the Royal Armouries and the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales.
Banksy's home town: a harbour city of street art, the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the SS Great Britain in dry dock.
One of the smallest capitals in the world, with grass roofs on the parliament peninsula of Tinganes.
The only complete walled city in Ireland, the Bogside murals and the Peace Bridge over the Foyle.
Monet's cathedral, the square where Joan of Arc was burned and the Gros-Horloge astronomical clock.
A car-free village under the Matterhorn, with the highest cable car in Europe and year-round skiing.
Scandinavia's tallest cathedral, Linnaeus's garden and the Viking royal mounds at Gamla Uppsala.
Three medieval towers guard the old port; the Ile de Re is a bridge away.
Britain's second city has more canal miles than Venice, the Balti Triangle and Peaky Blinders' Black Country next door.
Britain's smallest city: a cathedral in a hollow where the patron saint of Wales was born.
The 'Venice of the Alps': canals through a medieval old town and the cleanest lake in Europe.
Vermeer's canals, Delft Blue pottery and the tomb of William of Orange in the New Church.
The birthplace of winter tourism in 1864, two Winter Olympics and the Cresta Run.
The seafood capital of Scotland and the ferry port for Mull, Iona and the Hebrides.
Samoa’s waterfront capital: the fish market, the Immaculate Conception cathedral and Sunday church singing.
Palau's main town and gateway.
Sleepy colonial island capital.
Riverside capital on the White Nile.
Cobbled capital of stone arches, the botanical gardens where Bligh’s breadfruit was planted, and Fort Charlotte above.
Riverside old town below the cliffs.
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