The walled corsair city of Brittany, rebuilt stone by stone after 1944, with the biggest tides in Europe.
Goethe's and Schiller's houses, the birthplace of the Bauhaus, and Buchenwald on the hill above.
The only complete walled city in Ireland, the Bogside murals and the Peace Bridge over the Foyle.
Sleepy colonial island capital.
Wave-patterned UNESCO plaza.
Pastel Dutch waterfront, UNESCO-listed.
Riverside old town below the cliffs.
Faded Ottoman-Italian Red Sea port.
Colourful Spanish colonial old town.
Faded colonial island city, UNESCO-listed.
Lithuaniaโs interwar capital: a Gothic castle, the Devilโs Museum and Europeโs largest concentration of modernist architecture.
Baroque old town, UNESCO-listed.
Elegant town near ancient Heraclea.
Colonial city of churches and murals.
Town below the Accursed Mountains.
The old town inside an extinct volcanoโs crater, with the Cisterns of Tawila and Ottoman-era streets.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited sites.
Venetian walls around the last divided capital in Europe โ cross the Green Line on foot from one side to the other.
Medieval capital on the Yantra gorge.
Ancient Islamic city of 82 mosques, where hyenas are fed by hand at night.
UNESCO silver-mining town folded into an old volcanic caldera.
Colourful colonial town frozen in time.
Belarusโs best-preserved historic centre, with two castles above the Neman.
Ancient desert city of windcatchers.
Portugalโs ancient university town, with the baroque Joanina Library, black-caped students and mournful fado.
Crooked wooden wharf houses of the old Hanseatic trading quarter.
Honey-coloured college quads, the Bodleian Library and the dining hall that inspired Hogwarts, all walkable in an afternoon.
Silver-mining city of candy-coloured houses stacked up a ravine, with streets in tunnels and student minstrels serenading the alleys.
Walk the medieval city walls, the Shamblesโ overhanging shops and York Minster, the largest Gothic cathedral in northern Europe.
Cobbled colonial town of pink Gothic church spires and rooftop bars, repeatedly voted the best small city in the world.
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