Visit York

Georgian spa city with Roman baths.

Walk the complete Roman and medieval walls and the two-tier Tudor shopping galleries of the Rows.

Alfred the Great's capital: the longest Gothic nave in Europe and the Round Table hanging in the Great Hall.

Honey-coloured college quads, the Bodleian Library and the dining hall that inspired Hogwarts, all walkable in an afternoon.

Punt along the Backs past King’s College Chapel and the Bridge of Sighs, then drink in the pub where DNA was announced.

Crooked wooden wharf houses of the old Hanseatic trading quarter.

Roman forum, Romanesque churches and the Sea Organ — steps that play music from the waves — on a Dalmatian peninsula.

Constantine the Great's birthplace, the Ottoman Skull Tower and Serbia's capital of grilled meat.