Visit Launceston

Half-timbered Alsace at its prettiest, the Isenheim Altarpiece and the Alsace wine route on the doorstep.

The capital of the Dukes of Burgundy: mustard, the Owl trail through the old town and the Cote d'Or vineyards south.

The cathedral where French kings were crowned and the champagne houses tunnelled into the chalk beneath it.

The Mercedes-Benz and Porsche museums in a valley of vineyards, with the Black Forest an hour away.

The Olympic Museum on a hillside above Lake Geneva, with the Lavaux vineyard terraces next door.

Madeira's capital: wicker toboggans down from Monte, the flower market and Madeira wine lodges.

A medieval Firewatch Tower over a Gothic and baroque centre on the Austrian border, next to Lake Neusiedl.

Plane trees, the Arslanagic bridge and Herzegovinian wine, half an hour from Dubrovnik.