Albania

Gjirokaster

• Castle
• Ethnographic museum
• Zekati family house
• Skenduli house
• Underground

Tirana

• National Museum of History
• Mosaic of Tirana
• Bunk’art

Durres

• Tower & wall
• Amphitheatre
• Archaeological museum

Berat

• Ethnographic Museum
• Church of Saint Trinity

Korca

• Museum of Medieval Art
• Largest Orthodox church

Armenia

Yerevan

• History Museum of Armenia
• Tsitsernakaberd (genocide memorial)

Khndzoresk (caves)

Austria

* Vienna

• hofburg palace
• opera house
• otto wagner pavilion
• belvedere museum (order tickets beforehand)
• time travel vienna
• st stephen’s cathedral
• schonbrunn palace
• naschmarkt (very old open air market)
• rathaus
• sigmund freud museum
• belvedere palace
• albertina museum
• kunsthistorisches museum
• imperial crypt
• hundertwasser house
• sacher torte (chocolate) (hotel sacher)
• mumok – modern art
• leopold museum
• prater amusement park
• mozarthaus
• michaelerplatz roman ruins
• Viennese apple strudel
• people’s garden park
• Vienna city vineyards
• anker clock (visit at noon) (in vienna’s oldest square)
• Danube tower for views
• palais equitable tree with nails
• esperanto museum (made up language museum)
• butterfly house

* innsbruck

• hofkirche
• cathedral of st james
• town tower
• schloss ambras
• tirol panorama
• tyrolean folk art museum
• imperial palace

* Salzburg

• mozart’s birthplace
• hohensalzburg fortress
• mirabell gardens
• old residenz palace
• new residenz palace
• hellbrunn palace
• beer halls
• Salzburg cathedral with excavations
• kapuzinerberg hill
• steingasse
• st peter’s abbey & catacombs
• marionette theatre
• panorama museum
• Salzburg museum
• Mozart residence (not birthplace)
• klessheim palace
• nonnberg abbey
• museum of modern art
• christmas museum
• open-air museum
• stiegl brauwelt (beer tour + tasting)
• hangar 7 (modern plane stuff)
• folklore museum
• bible world museum
• domquartier museum

* Graz

• Schlossberg hill
• eggenberg palace
• opera house
• graz cathedral
• styrian armory
• town hall & narrow houses
• the mausoleum
• k&o rooftop
• kunsthaus gratz (friendly alien)
• neue galerie gratz
• history museum
• folk life museum (not worth it)
• mariatrost basilica
• murinsel
• grazer landhaus
• glockenspiel
• gratz museum
• painted house
• old gallery
• attems palace
• graz castle
• franciscan church
• museum of perception
• Schlossburg slide
• statue museum
• church of our lady of succor
• fairytale express
• mural in Mariahilfkirche Courtyard
• franz ferdinand’s birthplace
• Schlossberg tunnel

* Villach

• landskron castle
• monkey mountain
• holy cross church
• st jakob’s church
• st Nicholas church
• Villach city museum
• finkenstein castle

* Hallstatt

• dachstein ice cave
• hallstatt salt mine
• bone house
• world heritage skywalk
• hallstatt museum
• kalvarienberg church
• church of christ

Eisenstadt:

• Esterhazy palace & palace gardens
• Haydn haus museum
• Haydn church

* Linz: Renaissance town

• Linz landhaus
• linz castle (local history museum)
• ars electronica center
• Lentos art museum
• Linzer grottenbahn
• mural harbor
• new cathedral
• postlingberg
• hohenrausch (temporary walk around the city?)
• museum of contemporary history

Zell am see

• Schloss Rosenberg: now a rathaus

* Alpbach: pretty country village

• Alpine coaster
• st georgenberg monastery
• museum of tirolean farmhouses
• inneralpbach brewery

Melk: small town with Melk Abbey
St Gilgen: Small medieval village

• Heimathaus – museum of local traditions

Gmunden: small town with Seeschloss Ort
Hohenwerfen castle: Medieval castle with shows and traditional medieval interiors
Hochosterwitz Castle: Medieval castle with traditional medieval interiors
Kitzbuhel: small medieval ski town
* Kreuzenstein Castle: medieval furnished castle
* Riegersburg Castle: hilltop castle with decorated interior
Feldkirch: cute medieval town

• Schattenburg Castle (history)

Admont abbey: amazing library
Durnstein: small town
St wolfgang: cute lakeside town

Belgium

* Antwerp

• Rubens house
• st. paul’s church
• red star line museum (emigration museum)
• chocolate nation
• Sunday bird market
• Vlaeykensgang (old alley)
• Museum aan de stroom – museum of Antwerp (with views)
• rockox house – renaissance house as an art gallery
• M HKA – contemporary art museum
• FotoMuseum – photography museum
• ModeMuseum – modern fashion museum

Mechelen

• kazerne dossin – museum about 1940s racism
• museum hof van busleyden – museum of mechelen in burgundian era

Tournai

• 12 & 14 rue barre st brice – 12th century houses

Dinant

• croquet de dinant

Ypres

• in flanders field museum – world war museum with city views
• cloth hall

* Kasteel van Gaasbeek: Decorated renaissance castle
Alden Biesen Castle: castle with small museum
Chateau de Beloeil: castle with decorated interior
Castle of Freÿr: castle with decorated interior
Lier: cute medieval town

Bosnia and Herzegovina

* Sarajevo

• latin bridge: where Franz Ferdinand was killed
• gallery 11/07/95
• yellow fortress (distant views)
• beys mosque
• sarajevo war tunnel: museum
• Sarajevo roses: marks on ground resembling blood
• city hall
• museum of crimes against humanity and genocide
• history museum of bosnia
• war childhood museum
• try krompirusa
• abandoned bobsled track
• Gazi Husrev-beg madrasa: sarajevo history

* mostar

• old bridge
• old bridge museum (views)
• old bazaar
• koskin-mehmed pasha’s mosque (views)
• museum of war and genocide victims
• biscevic house
• musilbegovic house
• crooked bridge
• war photo exhibition
• lucky most bridge (views)

Una national park: park with all the waterfalls
Banja luka

• kastel fortress (ruin)

Jajce

• waterfall
• fortress
• watermills

Blagaj: famous monastery
* Kravica waterfalls
Pocitelj: small medieval town

Bulgaria

* Plovdiv

• Roman theatre
• regional ethnographic museum
• Balaban and Hindilyan houses
• nedkovich house & other houses
• nebet tepe: archaeological complex
• hisar kapiya: old gate
• st constantin and elena church
• archaeological museum
• historic museum
• museum-gallery philippopolis: museum of classical Bulgarian art
• ancient forum
• kapana (hipster neighbourhood)

Nessebar (on the black sea)

• old windmill

Sozopol (on the black sea)
Rila monastery
Sofia

• Alexander Nevski Cathedral
• sofia history museum
• national art gallery: Bulgarian art
• the red flat: life in communist bulgaria

Veliko tarnovo

• tsaravets fortress
• archaeological museum
• hadji nikoli inn museum: small art gallery

Koprivshtitsa

• Dimcho Debelyona House Museum (meh)
• Todor Kableshkov House Museum (ok)
• Georgi Benkovski House Museum
• Lyuben Karalevov House Museum (meh)
• Lyutov House Museum (meh)
• Nencho Oslekov House Museum

Rock Churches of Ivanovo
Troyan Monastery

Croatia

Split

• klis fortress: may be out of the way
• split archaeological museum
• split live museum
• play picigin
• museum of senses

Zagreb

• Zagreb cathedral
• Zagreb 360
• mirogroj cemetery
• 80s museum
• mimara museum: art museum
• museum of arts and crafts
• st mark’s church
• museum of contemporary art
• archaeological museum: has a mummy named Rosie
• museum of illusions
• image of war photography museum
• modern gallery
• art pavilion
• stone gate
• atelier Mestrovic: sculptures in artist’s house
• museum of hangovers

Dubrovnik

• lokrum island (nature) - has peacocks
• maritime museum
• museum of modern and contemporary art
• minceta fortress (views)

Zadar

• archaeological museum
• zadar pijaca: pag cheese, gligora cheese
• church of saint donaites
• zadar cathedral (views)
• gradska straza: building
• petar zoranic square
• museum of illusions

Rovinj

• grisia (neighbourhood)
• batana museum

Pula

• museum of contemporary art of istria

Plitvice lakes park
Rab island

• rab museum of sacred art: skull of st. Christopher
• eat rab cake

Rijeka

• Trsat Castle
• Rijeka City Museum
• PEEK&POKE Computer Museum
• Church of Our Lady of Lourdes

Porec

• Euphrasian Basilica

Cyprus

Paphos *

• Tombs of the Kings
• Kato Paphos archaeological park
• Paphos Castle
• Aphrodite’s Rock
• Tala Monastery Cat Park
• Agia Kyriaki Chrysopolitissa

Nicosia

• Levantis Museum (history)
• Cyprus Museum

Kalopanayiotis

• Lampadistis Monastery
• Byzantine Museum

Limassol

• Kolossi Castle
• Limassol Castle

Lefkara: cute village known for embroidery
Panagia Phorbiotissa Church

Czechia

* Prague

• Prague castle
• john lennon wall
• old town hall tower (views)
• astronomical clock
• Charles bridge
• old jewish cemetery
• Spanish synagogue
• new town prague
• st vitas cathedral
• try becherovka
• eat pickled cheese
• national museum
• beer museum
• apple museum
• museum of communism
• strahov library
• city of prague museum
• mala strana (neighbourhood)
• national gallery
• museum of music
• jewish museum
• eat trdelnik, horice rolls
• mucha museum
• museum of decorative arts
• coffee museum
• miniatures museum
• speculum alchimiae: medieval alchemy lab
• vysehrad: historic fort
• clementium library

* cesky krumlov

• cesky krumlov castle
• st vitus cathedral
• minorite monastery: small monastery
• museum fotoatelier siedel: photography museum with decorated interior
• the regional museum
• cloak bridge
• revolving theatre

kutna hora

• sedlec ossuary
• Italian court: decorated palace
• gothic stone house & fountain
• hradek: silver museum
• church of the assumption of our lady
• church of st Barbara
• Jesuit college

karlstejn castle: decorated medieval castle
omolouc

• museum of Olomouc cheese
• hradisko monastery
• modern art museum
• Olomouc castle?
• archdiocesan museum
• regional museum in Olomouc: small museum

karlovy vary

• moser museum: glass museum
• hot spring colonnade
• park colonnade
• jan becher museum: Czech herbal liquor

lednice castle: romantic castle
valtice castle: rococo castle
bouzov castle: decorated medieval castle
telc

• underground tunnel tours
• watchtower views
• telc castle: renovated renaissance castle
• highlands museum: telc history museum

pilsen

• underground museum
• beer spa: spa with beer ingredients
• museum of west bohemia
• pilsen holocaust memorial

brno

• ossuary of church at st james
• spilberk castle: just for outside pics
• villa tugendhat: house by mies van der rohe
• Underground labyrinth
• Vegetable market
• Capuchin crypt
• House of the lords of lipa
• Plague column
• Spilberk castle: city of brno museum
• Museum of romani culture

Liberec
Mikulov: small but cute town
Znojmo: small baroque town
Litomysl: colourful town

• Castle: has decorated interior

Hradec kralove: cute colourful town

Denmark

Copenhagen

• Frederiksberg palace
• glyptotek
• museum of Copenhagen
• danish national gallery

Kronborg castle
* Odense

• hans Christian Anderson museum
• odense castle
• funen open air museum
• HCA’s birthplace
• odense city museum

Aalborg

• museum of contemporary art
• lindholm site and museum (outside the city)
• aalborg historical museum
• aalborghus castle (outside only)

* Aarhus

• cathedral (views)
• Viking museum
• women’s museum
• ARoS museum of modern art: looks cool
• Moesgaard museum: anthropology museum
• mollestein street
• den gamble by: living past museum
• deer park

Lyngby open air museum
* Faroe islands

• mykines puffin colony
• kallurin lighthouse
• gjogv town
• saksun town
• traelanipa: lake above a cliff – no waterfall
• Torshavn: large town
• national museum of the faroe islands
• lastasavn foroya (local art museum)
• Torshavn cathedral
• kirkjubour: medieval ruin town
• seal woman

* Egeskov castle
Ribe

• Viking Museum
• Viking Center
• Museum of Witch Hunt

Ebeltoft: old town on the beach
Roskilde

• Roskilde Cathedral
• Viking Ship Museum
• Ragnar Rock Museum

Bornholm

• Allinge
• Gudhjem
• Svaneke
• Almindengen forest buffalo
• Medieval Center of Bornholm
• Osterlars Round Church

Hedeby: reconstructed Viking site
Lindholm Hoje: viking burial site

England

* London

• leadenhall market: HP filming location
• the british library
• middle temple hall: Shakespearean home
• Buckingham palace
• tate modern (views)
• Charles dickens museum
• London mithreaum: roman london
• william morris gallery
• geffrye museum: museum of the home
• Kensington rooftop gardens
• Temple church
• St dunstan in the east
• Sir john soane museum
• Dr johnson’s house
• Garden at 120 (views)

Chester

• eastgate clock
• chester cathedral
• Grosvenor museum
• roman theatre
• chester castle ruin

* Hampton court palace
Chatsworth house
Bolton castle: medieval castle, where Mary queen of scots was held
* Bath

• American museum: art museum
• museum of bath architectures
• abbey tower (city views)
• bath abbey
• prior park (palladian bridge)
• thermae bath spa
• The Pump Room restaurant

* Stratford upon avon

• shakespeare’s birthplace
• anne hathaway’s cottage
• the new place: Shakespeare museum
• holy trinity church: shakespeare’s grave
• shakespeare’s schoolroom
• butterfly farm
• hall’s croft
• tudor world
• mary arden’s farm
• river walk
• street lamps from different countries
• MAD museum: mechanical museum

warwick castle: decorated renaissance castle
Oxford

• oxford university
• st mary’s tower (views)
• Christ church
• pitt rivers museum: oddities museum
• the story museum
• Bodleian library: within oxford university
• JRR Tolkien grave
• oxford castle: ruin
• ashmolean museum: antiquities museum with views
• Radcliffe camera
• magdalen college
• merton college
• bridge of sighs
• Blackwell's Rare Books

Leeds castle: romantic castle
* Haworth/Keighley

• bronte parsonage museum
• Haworth parish church
• cliffe castle: misc museum
• cabinet of curiosities: where the bronte brother bought opium that eventually lead to his death
• black bull pub: pub from the bronte era that is supposedly haunted
• old school room: bronte’s dad’s school room
• peninstone hill
• bronte chair: stone chair where the brontes would sit to tell stories, according to legend
• st Michael and all angels church – Bradford (charlotte, Emily burial)
• st mary’s churchyard – scarborough (anne burial)

York

• clifford’s tower
• york castle museum
• york minster
• jorvik Viking center
• shambles (medieval section)
• chocolate story (kit kat was invented in york)
• york city walls
• treasurer’s house: romantic house
• merchant adventurer’s hall: medieval hall
• barley hall: interactive medieval house
• york mansion house & Fairfax house: Georgian houses

Liverpool

• beatlemania
• british music experience
• Georgian quarter
• museum of liverpool

Canterbury

• canterbury cathedral
• canterbury tales at st Margaret’s church
• Canterbury roman museum
• beaney house of art and knowledge: oddities museum
• Canterbury castle ruin
• st augustine’s abbey

Castle combe
Lincoln: charming village

• Lincoln cathedral
• Lincoln castle

Weald and downland open-air museum
Chesterfield

• the shambles (medieval area)
• revolution house
• chesterfield museum

Bamburgh castle: large castle in northern england
Windsor castle: home of the queen
Dover castle
Berwick-upon-Tweed: cute town near the scottish border
Corfe castle

• corfe castle ruins
• corfe castle model village

Cambridge

• Fitzwilliam museum
• museum of computing history
• museum of science
• corpus clock
• st mary’s church tower (views)
• king’s college chapel
• wren library
• mathematical bridge
• the round church

St michael’s mount
Gloucester cathedral: HP filming location
Durham cathedral: HP filming location
Raby Castle: decorated romantic castle
* Chawton

• Jane austen house
• chawton house: owned by Jane Austen’s brother (oak room alcove was Jane’s favorite place to sit)
• clinkers: medieval houses
• st nicholas’s church: mother and sister are buried here
• walk to alton (austen’s favourite walk)
• Chawton garden house airbnb (used to be on brother’s estate’s grounds)

* Winchester

• Winchester cathedral: jane austen’s grave
• Winchester castle: 1000 year old castle
• wolvesey castle remains
• westgate museum: views
• 8 college st (where Jane Austen died)

* Lalock: P&P filming location, HP filming location

• lalock abbey
• king john’s hunting lodge: tea room with gardens

Kenilworth castle: where Elizabeth I would meet with Dudley. Ruin
Port Isaac: fishing village nearby where King Arthur was born
Truro: Cornish village

• truro cathedral
• healey’s Cornish cyder farm
• royal cornwall museum

Mousehole: super cute fishing village
Steventon/Basingstoke

• church (where Jane Austen attended for 25 years)
• The Vyne, Oakley Hall, Ashe House (places Jane Austen attended frequently), Deane House (where she met Tom Lefroy)
• Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery (exhibits on Austen – contact beforehand)

* Hatfield House
Bristol

• Clifton Village
• Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
• Georgian House Museum
• Old City
• SS Great Britain
• M Shed (Victorian Bristol)

Whitby *

• Whitby abbey
• St. Mary’s church
• Whitby beach
• Whale arch
• 6 royal crescent (where Dracula was written)
• Captain Cook museum
• Whitby jet stone
• Dracula experience (looks cheesy)
• Eden camp – military history
• Whitby museum
• Whitby lighthouse (has views)

Durham

• Durham cathedral
• Durham castle
• Durham museum (small)
• Museum of archaeology
• Beamish museum (living history – out of the way)
• The Bowes Museum (may be out of the way)

Robin Hoods Bay: cute seaside town
Norwich *

• Norwich cathedral
• Royal arcade
• Norwich market
• Elm hill (historical area – tombland, pig lane, erpingham gate)
• Pulls ferry
• Cow tower
• Norwich castle (exhibitions)
• Plantation garden
• Sainsbury centre for visual arts
• Museum of Norwich (industry)
• Guild hall
• Fye bridge – ducking site, and bishops bridge – where women crossed to burn at the stake. Lollar’s pit was used for holding, it’s now a pub
• St Peter Mancorft – has shacked used for humiliation

Stamford: medieval/Georgian town

• Burghley house – renaissance home, used in P&P

Rye: medieval town

• Ypres tower
• Landgate
• Bodiam castle ruin
• Nature reserve

Skipton

• Skipton castle

Polperro: Cute town

• Heritage museum
• Shell cottage

Penshurst Place
Wells

• Wells Cathedral
• Vicars Close (oldest residential street in Europe)
• Bishop's Palace and Gardens

Sutton Hoo
Lavenham

• Kentwell Hall
• Museum of East Anglian Life
• Guildhall
• Little Hall
• Crooked House

Ambleside

• Stagshaw Garden
• Armitt Library & Museum
• Bridge House
• Wray Castle
• Rydal Mount (William Wordsworth’s home)

Portsmouth

• Mary Rose Museum
• Southsea Castle
• Portchester Castle
• West Wittering Park
• Tichfield Abbey
• Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum
• Portsmouth Museum
• D-Day Museum

St Ives

• Seal island

Shaftesbury

• Gold Hill
• Shaftesbury Abbey

Burford: cute Cotswolds town

• The Royal Oak pies

Bury St Edmunds
Little Moreton Hall: pretty Tudor home
Hastings

• Battle abbey
• Hastings castle
• Pier
• True Crime Museum

Winchcombe

• Belas Knap cairns
• Hayles fruit farm
• Sudeley Castle (interior is modern, has grave of Catherine Parr)
• Beautiful place to walk around the trails

Knaresborough: cute town

• Courthouse museum
• Chapel of our Lady of the Crag (looks cute)
• Old Manor House (1000 years old)
• Mother Shipton’s Cave/Petrifying Wall

Bakewell: town in peak district
Grasmere (town)

• Wordsworth Museum
• Dove Cottage (Wordsworth house)
• St Oswald’s Church (interesting)
• Wordsworth grave
• Town End area
• Grasmere gingerbread

Hill Top (Beatrix Potter’s house)
Moreton-in-Marsh (less cute Cotswolds town)

• Bell Inn (LOTR inspo)
• London House Antiques

Leeds (town)

• Kirkgate market
• Corn exchange
• Donkey sanctuary
• Kirkstall Abbey ruins
• Leeds cathedral
• Museum of medicine

Temple Newsam: regency home with farm
Harewood House: beautiful decorated home
Ely

• Oliver Cromwell house
• Ely cathedral

Petworth

• Petworth house

Torquay

• Torre Abbey (history)
• Torquay Museum (has exhibit on Agatha Christie)
• Agatha Christie bust
• Greenway (Agatha Christie’s home) (out of the way)
• Oldway mansion (out of the way)

Wentworth Woodhouse: country house with interior details
Shibden Hall: decorated country home
Dorney Court: beautiful medieval home
Ham House: 17th century home
Berkeley Castle: somewhat decorated medieval castle
Painswick: cotswolds town

• Rococo gardens

Chilham: tiny but cute town
Lyme Regis

• Lyme Regis museum
• Dinosaurland Fossil Museum

Alfriston: small but cute town
Stanton: tiny but cute town
Henley-in-Arden: small but cute town
Fairford: cute Cotswolds town
Tetbury: super cute Cotswolds town
Corsham:

• Corsham Court
• Great Chalfield Manor (medieval house)

Chavenge House: beautiful home
Clovelly: cute town (with entry fee)
Smallhythe Place: small but historic tudor home

Isle of Man

• Castle Rushen (medieval)
• Manx Museum
• Cregneash village
• Peel Castle (ruin)
• House of Manannan
• Home of Rest of Old Horses

Guernsey

• Hauteville (House of Victor Hugo)
• German Occupation Museum
• St Peter Port
• Sausmarez Manor
• Guernsey Museum and Art Hallery
• Local Cider

Estonia

* Tallinn

• Kumu Art Museum (Estonian art)
• KGB Museum (Soviet spy museum)
• KGB Cells (Soviet cells)
• Pohjala brewery
• Maiasmokk Café – oldest café in Estonia
• Kadriorg art museum (non-estonian art)
• Estonian museum of applied art and design (modern)
• Estonian health care museum (learn about the human body)
• lounge24 radisson blue sky bar (views)
• maiden tower café
• Estonian history museum – great guild hall
• maarjamae palace – estonia discovery museum
• beer house (beer hall)
• patkuli viewing platform
• bastion underground passages
• st olaf’s church
• st catherine’s cloister – oldest building in Tallinn
• olde hansa medieval restaurant
• toompea hill

Garlic ice cream

Haapsalu: cute small town with castle

Finland

Helsinki *

• suomenlinna sea fortress & museum
• Helsinki city museum
• uspenski cathedral
• national museum of finland
• ateneum art museum
• sinebrychoff house museum
• museum of finnish architecture
• design museum Helsinki
• rock church (exterior)
• seurasaari open air museum
• museum of technology

Porvoo *

• porvoo museum
• albert edelfelt studio museum (5 miles out of the way)
• iso linnamaki ancient fortress (nature)

Turku

• aboa vetus & ars nova museum of history
• turku art museum
• turku castle
• luostarinmaki open air museum

Joensuu

• Art Museum

Rauma: cute town

France

Montpellier

• musee fabre: art museum
• porte du peyrou
• chateau d’eau: water tower with view of roman aqueduct
• cathedral saint-pierre
• musee d’anatomie
• medicine university
• musee du vieux Montpellier
• hotel des tresoriers de france: used to be residence of king Louis xiii
• hotel des tresoriers de la bourse
• musee atger (drawing art museum)
• musee d’art brut
• Chateau de flaugergues: decorated mansion, a little out of the way

Nimes

• museum of roman history
• arena
• maison carree
• museum of old nimes
• la tour magne (views)
• jardins de la fontaine
• temple of Diana (actually a library)

Saint-laurent-des-arbres

• church/castle
• tour de ribas

Uzes

• medieval garden
• duche
• haribo museum (half hour walk from city)

Chateau d’amboise: decorated medieval castle, where Leonardo da vinci is buried
* Grasse

• perfume museum: Fragonard, molinard
• international perfume museum (w/ botanical gardens)
• notre dame de puy (has paintings by rubens, fragonard)
• jean honore fragonard village museum
• museum of the art and history of provence

Arles

• roman ruins (amphitheater, theatre, baths)
• van gogh walking tour map from visitor’s centre
• espace van gogh: hospital he lived in
• place Lamartine: yellow house he lived in
• cryptoportique: underground tunnels
• museum of antiquity: bust of Caesar made in his lifetime
• reattu museum: art museum in former priory

Turckheim: small village next to colmar
Avignon

• papal palace
• musee du petit palais: medieval art
• musee angladon: ancient art & local impressionist art
• fort saint-andre
• frigolet abbey: monks make own wine
• chateau de thouzon: ruin
• tour philippe-le-bel: views

Dijon

• touch owl plaques with your left hand for good luck (medieval tradition)
• ducal palace
• palais des beaux-arts
• notre dame
• saint benigne
• philippe le bon tower
• mulot & petitjean factory: gingerbread
• musee magin: house and art museum
• musee de la vie bourguignonne

Lille

• belfry (views)
• vieille bourse
• musee des beaux-arts
• eglise saint Maurice: gothic church
• notre dame de la treille
• tourist office (beautiful façade)
• citadelle: probably closed
• hospice comtesse museum: flemish history museum
• saint maurice church
• LAM: modern art museum, out of the way
• meert patisserie: try waffle with vanilla cream
• la piscine de roubaix: art museum

Carcassonne

• castle
• jousting during summer
• canal du midi cruise/tour
• musee de l’ecole: school museum

Saint paul de vence

• cimitiere: marc Chagall
• la colombe d’or: restaurant that many artists would eat at in exchange for paintings
• foundation maeght: modern art museum
• notre dame de la nativitie: smallest cathedral in france
• local history museum
• rosary chapel: painted by matisse

Rennes

• parliament building tours (French only except summer)
• mordelles gate: medieval
• cathedrale st pierre
• museum of Brittany (les champs libres)

Vannes
St-malo

• la cour la houssaye
• rue chat qui danse (street name)
• jacques cartier museum (explorer museum with 16th century life; scheduled tours)
• l’etoile du roy: pirate ship
• history museum of st malo and malouin
• corsair house: house museum from 1725
• sculptured rocks: Chemin des Rochers Sculptés, 35400 Saint-Malo

Angers

• castle and apocalypse tapestries
• chant du monde: contemporary tapestry
• terra botanica: plant theme park
• david d’angers gallery: sculpture
• musee des beaux-arts
• saint Maurice cathedrale
• la maison d’adam: handcraft shop

Chateau de brissac: decorated renaissance castle
Chateau de serrant: decorated renaissance castle
Toulouse

• foundation bemberg: art museum
• st sernin basilica
• jacobins museum
• musee des augustins: art museum
• capitol and interior
• hotel de bernuy: beautiful architecture
• les abattoirs: modern art museum (1945+)
• musee de Toulouse: museum of man and earth
• no 5 wine bar, “best wine bar in the world”

Albi

• musee Toulouse-lautrec
• berbie palace: sparse palace with gardens
• old alby’s house: photos
• pont vieux: photos
• collegiale saint-salvi: partially build in the 500s
• musee laperouse: artefacts from 1700 shipwreck

Troyes

• ruelle des chats
• musee d’art modern
• apothicairerie de l’hotel dieu le compte: apothecary museum
• eglise st-madeleine: beautiful interior
• musee saint-loup: art, natural history and architecture museum
• lili sculpture
• Musée de Vauluisant/Musee historique de Troyes

Honfleur

• saint catherine’s church: made of shipwrights
• maritime museum: history of honfleur
• mont-joli hilltop (views)
• musee Eugene boudin: impressionist museum
• butterfly house
• lighthouse
• saint leonard’s church
• ethnographical and popular arts museum: 16th century Normandy
• notre dame de grace

Riquewihr

• city dolder
• hansi house/museum: local artist
• try riquewihrienne, green sourkraut – only here

Kaysersberg

• climb to kaysersberg castle

Chateau du haut-koeningsbourg: decorated medieval castle overlooking Alsace wine region
Chateau d’azay le Rideau: renaissance/romantic chateau
Saint cirq lapopie: small medieval town
eguisheim
Arras: small town with large town square
Cagnes-sur-mer

• Renoir museum: where Renoir lived
• grimaldi castle museum

Chartres

• cimetiere st cheron (views)
• maison picassiete
• international stained glass centre

Colmar

• musee bartholdi: museum of the designer of the statue of liberty (there’s a statue of liberty in colmar)
• pfister house
• unterlinden museum: misc art and culture museum
• house of heads
• customs house
• schwendi fountain

Reims

• champagne jacquart mosaic
• view from mediatheque jean falala
• palace of tau
• st remi abbey
• franklin Roosevelt school: where world war II ended
• musee de la reddition: wwii museum

Paris

• galleries Lafayette rooftop
• square de montsouris
• le clos Montmartre: paris vineyards
• eglise st serge
• paris point zero
• colonnes de buren
• musee Montmartre
• saint Etienne du mont
• hotel dieu (go inside)
• moulin de la galette
• la campagne a paris: area
• musee de l’homme: anthropology museum
• musee marmatton monet
• musee jacquemart andre
• victor hugo house
• edith pilaf apartment
• Picasso museum
• bercy village (place near the library)
• Angelina hot chocolate
• cloitres des billettes
• colonnades at the palais royal
• café procope

Antibes

• Picasso Museum
• Absinthe museum
• Archaeology museum

Aix en Provence

• Atelier de Paul Cezanne
• Place d’Albertas
• Granet Museum - art

Nantes

• Chateau des ducs de Bretagne
• La villa occupada – offbeat art museum
• Les machines d’ile – modern sculpture
• Art museum of Nantes
• Place du bouffay – old town

Vitre

• Castle
• Château des Rochers-Sévigné

Annecy

• Annecy castle
• Palais de l’isle (small museum)

Nice

• Lascaris palace
• Matisse Museum
• Chagall Museum
• Palais Massena – small museum

Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume

• Mary Magdalene Tomb

Arras

• Les Boves underground houses
• Robespierre House

Narbonne

• Palais neuf (art museum)
• Donjon gilles aycelin
• L’horreum underground tunnels
• Bishop’s palace archaeological museum

Chateau de Pierrefonds
Yvoire

• Garden of Five Senses
• Yvoire Castle
• House of History

Bayonne

• Cathedral
• Castle
• Basque Museum

Conques Romanesque village

• Abbey

Perouges Preserved medieval town
Belcastel: small medieval village

• Castle
• Ancient Trades Museum

Dieppe

• Dieppe Castle/Museum
• Dieppe Market (famous in France)
• Pollet area
• 19 Aout 1942 museum

Chateau de Val: medieval castle
Locronan: tiny but cute medieval town
Saint-Goustan: cute medieval town
Rocheforte-en-terre: cute medieval town
Concarneau: walled fishing village
Barr: cute Alsace town
Sauveterre-de-Rouergue: small medieval town
Josselin

• Josselin Castle

Vezelay
Noyers
Beaune *

• Hotel Dieu
• Museum of Wine

Tours

• Compagnnonage Museum
• Museum of Fine Arts
• Hotel Gouin
• Chateau de Plessis-lez-Tours

Senlis: medieval town
Chateau de Brissac
St Jean de Luz: seaside town
Cassis: cute seaside town
Obernai: cute town
Ribeauville: cute town
Gerberoy: tiny but cute town St Tropez
Landerneau: cute town
Perigueux: cute town
St Jean de Cole: cute medieval town
Sarlat: pretty medieval town

• Chateau de Milandes (Josephine Baker!!)

Lascaux Caves
Le Bec-Hellouin: small, cute village
Malestroit: small medieval town
Limoges

• Adrien Dubouche Museum (porcelain)

Saint-Emilion

• Monolithic Church (has underground and catacomb tours)

Ajaccio

• Bonaparte Residence
• Fesch Palace (art museum)

La Rochelle

• Museum of the New World

Martel: cute old town
Metz

• German gate
• Art & History museum

Hunawihr: cute town in Alsace
Roscoff: stone town on the seaside
Treguier: cute small town

• St-Tugdual Cathedral cloister

Auray: small port city
Argenton-sur-creuse: somewhat cute town with interesting views on river
Segur-le-chateau: tiny but cute town
Chateau de Commarin: renaissance castle
Chateau de suscinio: empty but has events, mosaics
Chateau du Rocher Portail: renaissance castle
Fougeres

• Fougeres Castle

Collioure: cute seaside town
Figeac: small but cute town
Cap Ferret: laid-back beach cape
Aigues-Mortes: fortified city with salt marshes
Villefranche: very colourful seaside town
Dole

• Louis Pasteur's house

Quimper
Lourmarin: small but cute town

• Lourmarin castle

Menerbes: small but cute town
Bonnieux: small but cute town
Lacoste: small but super cute town
Saignon: small but super cute town

• Three castles

Goult: small but super cute town
Joucas: small but cute town
St-Saturnin-les-Apt: small but cute town
Peillon: cute medieval town

• Chapel of the white penitents (has frescoes)

Seguret: cute small town
Beaumes-de-Venise: cute small town
Vaison-la-Romaine: super cute town
Moustiers: cute small town
Tourtour: cute small town
Rodez

• Rodez Cathedral (can go on roof)
• Maison Armagnac

Simiane-la-Rotonde: cute small town
Langres

• Maison Renaissance
• Diderot's birth house & maison des lumieres
• Langres cheese

Germany

Frankfurt

• old opera
• galleria kaufhof (views)
• escheimheiner turm: medieval tower
• film museum
• museum giersch: local art
• Goethe house: his actual house
• communication museum: ancient to modern
• museum of applied art: 5000 years of history
• museum of modern art
• staedel museum: european art
• try local brew apfelwein

* Munich

• hofbrau haus: beer hall
• munich resindenz
• new town hall: book in advance
• asam brothers’ church
• pinathothek museums x 3: art museums
• saint peter’s church (views)
• nymphenberg palace
• church of our lady
• konigsplatz: antiquities
• viktualienmarkt maypole
• german museum: technical history
• Bavarian national museum
• lenbachhaus: expressionist art
• odeonsplatz: where hitler attempted his first coup
• weihenstephan brewery: oldest in the world
• white rose memorial
• city gates
• alter hof: part of a medieval castle in the middle of munich

* Neuschwanstein castle
hohenschwangau castle: next to neuschwanstein
Heidelberg

• philosopher’s walk (views)
• Heidelberg castle
• great Heidelberg tun: gigantic wine barrel
• old bridge
• heidelbonbon: make your own candy
• student prison museum
• monkey statue (stick your head in & rub it: hand = return to Heidelberg; mirror = wealth; mice = fertility)
• haus Zum ritter: old house (exterior)
• kornmarkt: small square
• st Michael monastery ruins

Harburg castle: sparse medieval castle
* Rothenburg

• night watchman tour: medieval life
• medieval crime museum
• city walls
• town hall tower (views)
• zur holl medieval restaurant
• Hohenstaufen castle and garden
• imperial city museum
• toppler castle: interesting looking castle
• craftsman’s house: medieval life
• Christmas museum
• schneeballen (local specialty)

* Nuremberg

• Nuremberg castle
• st Lorenz church
• german national museum with first globe ever made
• Albrecht durer’s birth house
• fembo house: city museum
• nazi party rally grounds (a bit out of the way)
• museum tuscherschloss: medieval mansion
• city walls

Eltz castle: decorated medieval castle
* Cologne

• chocolate museum
• house of fragrances: make your own cologne
• the fragrance museum
• kolsch beer: local specialty
• Ludwig museum: contemporary art (1900+)
• romisch-germanisches museum: roman and medieval Germany
• wallrad-richartz museum: classic art
• carnival museum: learn about Cologne’s carnival
• cologne city museum
• documentation centre for the national socialism: exhibition of nazi cologne
• cologne cathedral treasury/shrine of three kings
• museum of applied art

Trier

• porta nigra: roman gate w views
• karl marx house museum
• roman baths and amphitheater
• Constantine basilica (throne room) and electoral palace
• trier cathedral
• high cathedral of st peter
• rheinisches museum: archaeological museum

Ronneburg castle: fairly sparse medieval castle
Bremen

• glockenspiel house: bells ring 3 times a day
• town hall: reservations in advance
• schnoorvietel: area
• beck’s brewery
• bottcherstrasse
• kunsthalle
• am wall windmill: old windmill, coffee house
• dockland museum: seafaring museum
• ratskeller: old restaurant with large selection of wine
• paula mohdersohn-becker museum: first museum dedicated to a woman

Alsfeld: very small old town

• alsfelder fairy tale house: exhibits on grimm brothers stories

Stade: small pretty riverside town

• Swedish history museum
• open air museum

Wolfenbuttel

• wolfenbuttel castle: decorated neo-renaissance castle

Meiben

• albrechtsburg: decorated medieval castle

Monschau

• Castle (exterior only)
• felsenkeller brauhaus & museum (brewery)
• rode haus: historic haus, 1752
• senfmugle monschau: mustard museum
• glassworks factory
• local history and culture museum
• printing museum?

* Quedlinburg

• town hall: interior
• timber-frame museum
• adelshof: courtyard now a restaurant
• quedlinburg castle: romantic castle
• abbey church treasures (church is boring)
• munzenburg museum: local history, must visit
• castle museum: museum of the city
• klopstock museum: german writer klopstock birthplace

Moritzburg castle: decorated renaissance castle
Schleissheim palace: baroque palace
Wurzburg

• residence palace
• marienburg fortress (views)

Fussen

• high castle fussen: cannot find interior details
• fussen heritage museum (with beautiful library)
• st mang’s church with dragon statues

* Schwangau

• museum of Bavarian kings

Augsburg

• schaezler palace: rococo

Landsberg am lech: colorful small town
Bamberg

• residence: baroque palace
• Bamberg cathedral
• rose garden
• rauschbier (smoked beer)
• alte hofhaltung courtyard
• bamberg brewery museum
• michaelaburg abbey gardens (views)
• seehof palace: decorated rococo palace (out of the way)
• historic museum
• restaurant altenburg (originally a castle) (a bit out of the way)

Mainz

• Gutenberg museum
• ancient museum of seafaring
• roman-germanic central museum: history museum
• Chagall windows in st stephan’s church

Wernigerode: pretty timber town

• wernigerode castle: decorated medieval castle

Linderhof castle: ornate rococo
Dinkelsbuhl: small colorful town

• old town hall historical museum

Lubeck

• holsten gate: local history museum
• salzspeicher buildings
• rathouse: interior
• hospital of the holy spirit: medieval hospital
• hansemuseum: regional museum
• willy brant house: he was chancellor at the time of the USSR
• benhaus dragerhaus museum: art and decorative arts museum
• buddenbrook house: writers’ house
• gunter grass house: writer’s house
• house of the seamen’s guild

Hamburg

• beatles square
• chocolate museum: make your own chocolate

Regensburg

• town hall with torture chamber
• roman wall
• Walhalla memorial (outside the city)
• st emmeram palace & abbey: decorated palace
• museum of Bavarian history

Leipzig

• opera w/ dress up
• bach museum
• museum of fine arts

Tubingen

• Hohentubingen castle: see the castle museum
• Ancient culture museum
• city museum

bretten

• guardian angel museum
• tanning museum: local history
• melanchton’s house: info on the reformation
• brettner hundle: statue of dog that saved the town

Cochem

• Reichsberg castle
• Mustard mill (oldest in the world)
• Sesselbahn (chairlift for views)
• Bundesbank-Bunker (Cold War)

Konstanz

• Rosgarten Museum – local history
• Hus-haus museum
• Archaeology museum

Meersburg

• New Castle
• Meersburg Castle

Luneberg

• Lune Abbey

Stuttgart

• Pig Museum
• Old Castle
• Sfitskirche
• Wurrtemberg State Museum (history)
• Lugwigsburg Palace

Miltenberg: cute medieval town
Bonn

• Beethoven House
• Poppelsdorf Palace
• Drachenburg Castle
• History of the Federal Republic of Germany (1945-today)
• Arithmeum (art meets math)
• Kunsthaus (contemporary art)

Kassel

• Schloss Wilhelmschohe
• Weinberg (views)
• Grimmwelt – brothers Grimm museum
• Sepulkralkultur: museum of death culture
• New Gallery

Wartburg Castle: Medieval
Erfurt

• Merchant’s bridge
• Old Synagogue
• St. Augustine’s Monastery (Martin Luther studied here)
• Angermuseum (small art museum)

Hohenzollern Castle: Baroque
Nordlingen: traditional german town
Bayreuth

• Maisel’s Beer Adventure World
• Catacombs
• Eremitage Bayreuth
• Opera House (beautiful interior)
• New Palace
• Richard Wagner Museum (composer)
• Garden Design Museum

Limburg

• Oldest free-standing house in Germany

Freiburg

• Augustiner Museum

Europapark
Gengenbach: cute town
Schiltach: cute medieval town
Lichtenstein Castle: romantic interior
Calw: cute small town
Mannheim

• Mannheim Palace
• Kunsthalle Mannheim

Esslingen: cute town
Reutlingen: small city
Villingen-schwenningen: cute renaissance town
Arolsen Castle
Potsdam

• Museum Barberini (art)
• Filmmuseum
• The Russian Colony
• Sanssouci Palace: rococo palace (+ new chambers, picture gallery)
• Orangery Palace (art)
• New Palace

Goslar: cute old town

• Imperial Palace

Bacharach: cute medieval town
Michelstadt: cute old town
Schwerin

• State Museum (art)
• Schwerin Castle: opulent

Lennep: cute town

• Roentgen museum

Furth: cute medieval-renaissance town
Heppenheim: cute medieval town
Bad Wimpfen: cute small town, said to be a witch haven
Oberammergau: Village with painted houses
Ulm

• Ulmer Museum
• Bread Museum
• Kunsthalle (contemporary art)

Blaubeuren

• Blaubeuren abbey
• Bathhouse of the monks
• Blue lake (most vibrant until noon)
• URMU prehistoric museum

Mittenwald: painted town
Garmisch: painted town
Passau: colorful baroque town

• dachschund museum
• glass museum

Munster

• erbdrostenhof (baroque mansion)
• lacquer museum
• hulshoff castle
• vischering castle

Landshut: colourful baroque city
Celle: half timbered city

• schloss celle
• bomann-museum (local history)
• art museum (modern art)

Gottingen: half timbered city

• Rathaus (interior)

Marburg: half timbered city
Monreal: tiny but cute medieval town
Beilstein: super tiny but cute town
Idstein: pretty half timber town
Dusseldorf

• Street art
• Schloss Benrath (baroque palace)
• Museum Kunstpalast (centuries of art)
• Wildpark (feed deer)
• Kaiserswerth area
• Filmmuseum
• Neanderthal Museum
• Goethe Museum

Wismar

• Laughing pig statues
• Schabbelhaus (history)
• Church of the Holy Spirit

Lindau: colourful town on an island
Hirschhorn: tiny but cute town
Schmalkalden: small but cute half timber town
Wittenberg

• Luther House (Martin Luther)
• Melanchthon House
• Castle Church (Martin Luther)

Schleswig

• Nydamhalle: viking boats
• cathedral
• fishing area "Holm"

Gottorf Castle: painted castle with art museum

Greece

* Athens

• Lycabettus Hill (has a funicular)
• Anafiotika
• Pnyx Hill (pictures)
• Pittaki Street
• Adrianou Street
• Museum of Cycladic Art
• Changing of the guard, parliament building, Sundays, 11:00
• National Archaeology Museum
• Athens Central Market
• Temple of Zeus
• National Garden
• Museum of Greek Folk Art
• Museum of Folk Art and Tradition
• Museum of Musical Instruments
• byzantine & christian museum

Mystras: old monastery
Thessaloniki

• white tower
• roman forum
• agios dimitrios
• old town
• rotunda
• ladadika: area
• museum of byzantine culture
• archaeological museum
• the Olympic museum
• agios pavlos church
• vlatadon monastery
• panagia chalkeon church
• temple of osios david: church from byzantine empire
• bey hamam: ancient baths
• trigoniou tower (views, city wall)

Pella: sparse but important archaeological site
Nafplio

• nafplio cathedral: venetian frescoes
• palamidi fortress
• lion of Bavaria: sculpture
• land gate
• arvanitia promenade: coastal walk
• acronafplia fortress: hilltop photo spot
• komboloi museum
• Peloponnese folklore museum

* Heraklion

• local delicacy bougasta
• historical museum of crete
• agios minas cathedral
• peseki: cute restaurant with completely cretian menu
• caves of matala
• gortyn archaeological site

Symi

• chorio (views)
• castle ruins

Paros

• panagia ekatontipiliani: byzantine church
• lefkes: pretty town
• venetian castle

Naxos

• portara
• castle w museum
• mountain villages

* Pyrgi

• chios mastic museum (type of tree)

Rethymno

• guora gate
• ecclesiastical museum (artefacts from the churches)
• history and folklore museum
• centre for Cretan folk art

Chania

• maritime museum
• folklore museum
• municipal garden goats

Corfu

• achilleion palace: decorated romantic palace
• pantokrator church
• old fortress ruins
• new fortress ruins
• st spyridon church
• palace of st Michael and st George (exterior – interior is Asian art)

* Santorini

• ancient thira ruins
• tomato industrial museum
• santorini wine museum
• open air cinema
• santorini brewing company donkey beer
• santo’s winery (lots of tasting)

* Rhodes

• Kallithea thermal springs (a bit out of the way)
• palace of the grand master of the knights
• archaeological museum of Rhodes
• petaloudes butterflies (june-august)
• street of the knights
• modern greek art museum

Lindos

• acropolis of lindos
• church of panagia

* Mycenae
* Meteora
Hydra

• leonard skinnard’s house
• kountouriontis: house museum
• st kyprianos chapel: made of mud and wine
• historical archives museum: early modern history
• museum of hydra
• visit kamini and vlychos
• prophet elias monastery: pretty hilltop monastery (cannot find pics)
• rafalias pharmacy

Aegina

• tower of markellos
• temple of aphaia
• paleahora: ruined capital
• agios nektarios monastery
• eat lots and lots of pistachios
• temple of apollo

Mykonos

• spot peter the pelican: an actual pelican
• delos archaeological site
• panagia tourliani: pretty monastery
• panagia paraportiani: church which is actually 5 churches

Chios

• chios town windmills
• archaeological museum
• byzantine museum
• citrus museum
• guistiniani museum
• agios giorgios church

nea moni monastery: looks like a must-see
anavatos abandoned town: site of the chios massacre
* agio galas: caves inhabited for thousands of years
Folegandros: cute town
Kardamyli: cute town by the sea
Monemvasia: cute town

• Malvasia wine (medieval)

Areopoli: cute tiny town
Vatheia: abandoned hilltop town
Olympia
Amorgos island

• the town of Chora
• Asfondilitis Village ruins
• ancient Minoa (ruins)

Hungary

Sopron

• Storno House (art)
• Fidelity gate
• Fire tower (views)
• Fabricius House (Roman history)

Eger

• Eger Castle
• Beatles Museum
• Town Under the Town
• Minorite Church
• Basilica
• Serbian Church
• Marzipan Museum (marzipan art)
• Archbishop’s Palace

Budapest *

• Castle Hill
• Buda Castle
• Hungarian National Gallery
• Budapest History Museum
• The Cave Church
• Matthias Church
• Fisherman’s Bastion
• Museum of Terror (war history)
• House of Houdini
• Szechenyi Baths
• Cherry Palinka Liquor
• Royal Palace
• Chocolate Museum

Szeged: has a wide variety of architecture

Iceland

* Reykjavik

• the pearl (views), also has nature shows
• punk museum
• phallological museum
• arbaer open air museum
• selthrnares peninsula (about 5 miles long)
• nautholsvik beach: thermal beach
• hofdi house: reykjavik summit (cold war meeting)
• grotto lighthouse
• icelandic museum of rock n roll
• maritime museum

Ireland

Belfast

• Belfast castle
• crown liquor saloon
• salmon of knowledge statue
• ulster museum: misc museum
• irish republican history museum
• museum of orange heritage: Protestantism
• ulster folk museum: modern history

Dunguaire castle: decorated medieval castle (the one we stopped outside)
Kylemore abbey: romantic palace
Malahide castle: decorated medieval castle
Leap castle: low key decorated medieval castle
Dublin

• decorative arts and history museum
• national gallery of Ireland
• dublinia Viking experience

Slane castle: doesn’t look open for tours
Trim castle: castle ruin
* Waterford

• reginald’s tower: Viking exhibition
• medieval museum
• bishop’s palace: romantic palace with napoleon’s hair
• blaa bread
• house of Waterford crystal
• king of the Vikings: interactive experience
• Waterford castle: now a hotel
• Waterford treasures museum

Westport

• Westport house: romantic house

Killarney

• innisfallen island: island with ruins
• muckross house: romantic house
• muckross abbey
• ross castle: now a hotel
• statue of pirate queen grace o’malley

Killarney national park
The ring of Kerry

• gap of dunloe

Donegal castle: sparse medieval castle
Ashford castle: now a hotel, where TV shows were filmed
Dunluce castle: castle ruin
Enniskillen castle: castle ruin with museum
Doe castle: castle ruin
Dingle: pretty village
Kinsale: pretty village
Cobh: pretty village
Howth

• Howth Castle (20th century interior)
• St. Mary’s Abbey
• 2 lighthouses
• Howth pier
• Howth market
• Cliff walk

Ennis: town that looks like Galway
Kilmakeder Church: ruined church, like Glendalough
Doolin: cute town

Italy

Milan

• cathedral
• last supper
• basilica san lorenzo
• galleria emmanuel
• sforza castle
• pinacoteca di brera
• brera
• naviglio
• leonardo's vineyard
• fandazione prada
• ambrosiana: library
• gallerie d’italia
• museo poldi pezzoli (art museum)
• sant ambrosio: church
• archaeological museum
• San Bernadino Ossuary

* Verona

• juliet's house
• basilica de san zeno
• verona arena
• castelvecchio
• giardino giusti
• roman theatre
• torre dei lamberti
• piazalle castel san pietro
• basilica of st anastasia
• piazza della erbe
• arco dei gavi
• porta borsari
• porta leoni
• della scala family tomb
• il pozzo dell'amore
• Verona cathedral
• Ponte pietra
• Castelvecchio bridge
• Piazza dei signori w statue of dante

* Herculaneum
* Tivoli

• villa d'este
• villa adriana
• villa gregoriana

* Orvieto

• museo claudio faina
• etruscan necropolis
• torre del moro
• archaeological museum
• albornoz fortress
• well of st patrick

* Cinque terre
Portovenere

• chiesa di san pietro
• castello doria
• san Lorenzo church

Perugia

• rocca paolina
• giardini carducci
• porte sole (views)
• etruscan well museum
• etruscan arch

* Venice

• Museo Leonardo da Vinci
• Peggy Guggenheim Collection
• San Giorgio Maggiore (views)
• Campanile (views)
• museo del merletto
• murano glass museum
• ca'macana
• burano
• t fondaco dei tedeschi (views)
• gallerie dell'accademia
• Ca'Pesaro gallery of modern art
• royal gardens
• palazzo contrarini del bovolo: views, 7 eur
• ca'd'oro
• ca’rezzonico
• duomo di murano (exterior)

* Rome

• Trajan's market
• Gianicolo Hill
• Altare della Patria
• Pantheon
• Domus Aurea
• theatre of marcellus
• baths of diocletian
• capitol hill
• national gallery of modern art
• national gallery of ancient art
• villa farnesia
• keats-shelley house
• museo leonardo da vinci
• palazzo spada
• piazza mattei
• baths of Caracalla
• porta san paolo
• arcibasilica di san Giovanni: beautiful interior
• piazza del popolo: santa maria del popolo has caravaggios
• St Domitilla Catacombs
• Augustus Mausoleum
• House of Augustus
• Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi
• Palazzo Corsini
• Palazzo Farnese
• Palazzo Barberini

* Florence

• Galleria dell'Accademia
• pasta making/food making tour
• costume gallery
• boboli gardens
• piazza della signoria
• bargello museum
• stibbert museum (armour)
• san miniato al monte
• san marco museum (monastery)
• bardini museum and gardens (with views)
• museo novecento (modern art)
• leonardo da vinci museum
• galileo museum
• museo san marco has the annunciation by fra’angelico?
• Arnolfo tower (best views)
• Brancacci chapel

Bologna

• la finestrala alla vicenza
• asinelli tower
• oldest university

* Ravenna

• basilica di san francesco
• ravenna art museum
• national museum of Ravenna

* Siena

• tower
• porta romana
• museum of torture
• pinacoteca nazionale di siena
• porta tufi
• pubblico palace
• palazzo salimbeni (outside only)
• facciatone (views)
• fortezza medicea
• fountain of joy
• museo dell’opera: religious art

San Gimignano
* Lucca

• buccellatto (lucca bread)
• torre guinigi 9:30-7:30
• museum of torture
• palazzo ducale
• porta san pietro
• sant'anna gate
• puccini's birth home
• bulwark Holly Croce
• porta santa maria
• villa guinigi museum

* Assisi

• rocca maggiore

Pisa

• leaning tower of pisa
• duomo
• sant’antonio square jewel in wall
• piazza dei cavalieri: medieval town centre
• baptistery
• national museum of san matteo: art
• palazzo mediceo
• camposanto: cemetery
• museo dele sinope: original sketches of cemetery
• museo dell’opera del duomo: old decorations of the cathedral
• santa maria della spina

* Matera

• casa noha: history museum
• Madonna de idris: castle in rock
• matera cathedral
• matera bread
• musma: museum of modern art
• museum of medieval art
• chiesa san pietro barisano
• chiesa di san Nicola del greci
• casa grotto di vico solitario: history museum
• palombaro lungo: underground cathedral
• ancient path to montescaglioso
• chiesa del purgatorio: death-isnpired architecture
• palazzo lanfranchi belvedere
• san pietro caveoso

Ostia: ancient ruins
Turin

• church on the hill (views)
• cinema museum
• Egyptian museum (largest outside of Egypt)
• royal palace
• museum of ancient art (with views)
• porta palatina: roman gate
• piazza san carlo
• bicerin
• borgo medieval torino: fake medieval park
• palazzo carignano: museum of Italy reunification
• mont des capucins: views
• GAM: modern art museum
• piazza palazzo di citta: local markets
• piazza castello
• duomo of turin
• reggia di venaria reale: italy’s Versailles
• basilica di superga
• cathedral (shroud of turin)

* Vicenza

• basilica palladiana: first palladian window, views, art exhibits
• teatro olimpico: beautiful theatre
• palazzo chiericati: palace with small museum
• palladio museum
• la rotunda
• villa valmarana ai nani
• sanctuary of monte berico (views)

Miramare castle: decorated romantic castle
* Palermo

• Palermo cathedral
• palazzo dei normanni
• porta nuova: city gate
• capuchin catacombs
• giarbaldi gardens and ficus macrophylla
• cappella palatina: gilt chapel in church of martorana
• porta sant’agata
• archbishop’s palace: diocesan museum
• villa bonanno: gardens
• Fontana Pretoria: fountain of monsters
• museo riso: contemporary art
• chiesa di santa catarina: beautiful church
• chiesa di san guiseppe: baroque church
• palazzo constantino: full of art
• catacombs
• capella pallatina

Ossuary of san marino della battaglia
Procida: colorful seaside town

• terra murata: medieval part
• casale vascello: 16th century courtyard
• palazzo d’avalos: prison
• santa margherita nuovo: church
• museum casa di graziella: house museum of an author
• santa maria delle grazie
• santa maria della pieta
• museum of the sea

Camogli

• castello della dragone
• maritime museum: with traditional camogli house

Ostuni: cute white village
Arpino: small town

• acropolis di Civitavecchia
• torre de cicerona

Alberobello

• trullo sovrano: trulli museum
• casa d’amore: house with historical significance
• pasticciotto pastry

Monopoli

• castle of Charles V: outside only
• palmieri palace

Bracciano: lakeside town

• bracciano castle: decorated medieval castle

Varenna

• villa monastero: museum and garden
• castello di vezio
• chiesa di s Giovanni battista

Bergamo

• tempietto di santa croce: medieval temple with decorated interior
• old bishop’s palace
• capello colleoni
• bergamo cathedral
• museo donizettiani: composer museum in a former palace
• rocca di san vigilio: views
• basilica of santa maria maggiore
• torre civica: views
• natural history museum
• castello di san vigilio: ruin
• city gates
• academia carrara: art

Ragusa

• museo archaeological regionmale ibleo
• cathedral san Giovanni battista
• donnafufatta castle
• cathedral di san giorgio

Bellagio

• villa serbelloni gardens (must call ahead?)
• villa melzi and gardens
• basilica of san giacomo
• pescallo village (close by)

Mantua

• palazzo del te
• basilica di sant’andrea
• ducal palace
• rotunda di san Lorenzo
• castello san Giorgio
• mantua cathedral

* Naples

• castel sant’elmo (views) (funicular)
• Spanish quarter
• underground tours
• castel dell’ovo
• castel nuovo
• piazza del plebiscite
• archaeological museum
• museo di capodimonte: Italian art
• royal palace of Caserta: Italian Versailles
• palazzo reale
• naples cathedral
• catacombs of san gennaro
• piazza bellini
• cappella sansevero
• gesu nuovo: beautiful interior
• metro stations - art

Bari

• basilica di san Nicola (relics of santa claus)
• bari cathedral
• bari castle
• piazza mercantile
• museo archaeologico di santa scolastica: bari history
• pinacoteca metropolitana: art museum
• piazza del ferrarese

Lecce

• lecce amphitheater
• roman amphitheater (different)
• Carlo V castle with paper mache museum (specialty of Lecce)
• faggiano house museum
• museo provincial: local history
• MUST: contemporary art
• roman theatre museum
• city gates x4
• seminary museum (views)

* Bolzano

• santa maria maddalena church (views – on a vineyard)
• castel roncolo: decorated medieval castle
• castel mareccio: outside online
• flavo castle: now a restaurant
• visit otzi the ice man (south tyrol museum of archaeology – closed?)
• bolzano cathedral
• muri gries abbey
• maretsch castle: decorated medieval castle
• mercantile museum
• messner mountain museum: museum of mountains, 6 locations
• museion: modern art
• museum of nature south tyrol

Certaldo

• priori palace: contemporary art
• museum casa Boccaccio: writer, museum has views
• “castello” is town centre
• gates x3
• museum of sacred art

Cortona

• diocesan museum: has the “annunciation” by fra’angelico
• museo dell’accademia etrusca
• basilica santa margherita: views
• fortezza del girarfalco: views
• villa bramasole (house from under the Tuscan sun)

Ferrara

• estense castello
• city hall: history of the este family
• national archaeology museum
• international manhole cover museum
• piazza del municipio: used to be ducal palace courtyard
• palazzo schifanoia
• casa romei
• civic gallery of modern and contemporary art
• museum of the Risorgimento: reunification of italy
• jewish quarter

Modica

• modica chocolate
• cathedral of san Giorgio
• church of san pietro
• modica castle: exterior
• mercedari palace: civic museum

Cava d’ispica: ancient cave dwellings
Padua

• scrovegni chapel: looks like cistine chapel
• palazzo bo: university of padua, where many famous people graduates, including eleonora lucrezia cornaro piscopia, Copernicus, Erasmus
• palazzo della ragione
• baptistery next door to padua cathedral
• botanical garden
• st Anthony of padua (church)
• palazzo zuckermann: decorative arts museum
• MUSME: history of medicine
• ponte Molino: roman arch
• cruise to 3 famous villas

Volterra

• 7 city gates
• palazzo dei priori
• ecomuseum of alabaster

Positano

• museo archaeological romano: mini pompeii at positano

Ravello

• villa rufolo
• villa cimbrone gardens

Trieste

• roman theatre
• san giusto hill: roman ruins
• castello di san giusto
• museo civico revoltello: modern Italian art, views
• san giusto cathedral: also has ruins

Spello

• roman house
• villa costanzi
• villa dei mosaic
• belvedere

Spoleto

• bridge of the towers
• rocca alboronz: fortress
• mauri palace: now a library
• roman theatre
• cathedral

Villa romana del casale: ancient roman villa
Montepulciano

• fortress
• wine caves
• lions and griffins well

Cittadella

• captain’s house
• palazzo pretorio
• malta tower

Trento

• buonconsiglio castle
• diocesan museum
• spazio archaeological: old city of tridentum
• museo della SAT: museum of the alps
• palazzo della arbere: modern art
• mausoleum of cesare battisti
• palazzo londron
• monumental cemetery

Taormina

• greek theatre
• villa comunale gardens
• piazza del duomo
• piazza ix aprile
• palazzo corvaia
• roman theatre

Sabbioneta: small pristine renaissance town
Otranto

• castle
• church (skulls and mosaics)
• beach

Tellaro: Fishing village
Cefalu

• Museo mandralisca
• Beach
• Tempio Diana (ancient temple w views)
• La rocca (high climb)
• Lavatoio medieval – where medieval women washed their clothes

Pitigliano: cute tuscan town

• Tempietto: small cave temple
• Le Vie Cave – cave roads
• Palazzo orsini (has museums)
• Museo Archeologico all’aperto “Alberto Manzi” & grandone necropolis

Pistoia: medieval village
Modena

• Torre Ghirlandia (views)
• Palazzo Dei Musei
• Palazzo Comunale

Calcata Vecchia

• Room of 201 Teas

Urbino

• Ducal Palace
• Raphael House
• Parco della Resistenza (views)

Piacenza

• Palazzo Farnese
• San Savino Church
• Chiesa San Francesco
• Duomo di Piacenza

Grazzano Visconti: small medieval town
Castell’Arquato: small medieval town

• Santa Caterina Chapel

Faenza

• Museum of Ceramics
• Palazzo Milzetti

Santa Margherita: seaside town
Portofino

• Brown’s Castle
• San Martino Church

Gradara

• Gradara Castle (Paolo & Francesca)
• Underground caves

Tarquinia

• Necropolis of Tarquinia
• National Etruscan Museum

Vietri sul mare: cute town famous for tiles
Catania

• Castello Ursino
• San Nicolo Monastery

Syracuse
Noto
Treviso

• Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore (frescoes)
• Le Beccherie (Tiramisu was invented here)
• National Salce Collection Museum (museum of advertisements)
• Chiesa di San Francesco (frescoes)
• Entrance Gate
• Duomo (has Titian altarpiece and crypt)

Sermoneta: small medieval town
Collalto Sabino: small medieval town
Bosa
Cagliari

• Necropolis
• National Archaeology Museum

Sassari

• Museo Nazionale Sanna (history)

Ascoli Piceno: pretty renaissance city
Ischia

• Giardini la Mortella
• Aragonese Castle (ruin but large)

Isola San Giulio: pretty town on a small island
Bassano del Grappa

• Palazzo Sturm
• Hemingway Museum
• Tempio Ossario

Brisighella: cute town
Locorotondo: cute small town
Sirmione: small but cute town
Bagnoregio: small but cute hilltop town
Scanno: small but cute town
Chiusa: small but cute town
Scicli: interesting stone city
Runkelstein Castle: has painted walls
Foligno

• Palazzo Pratorio (frescoes)
• Palazzo Trinci (frescoes)
• Palazzo Orfini (first printed "Inferno")
• Cathedral of Foligno

Gubbio

• Ducal Palace
• Gubbio Cathedral

Latvia

Riga *

• st peter’s church viewing platform
• house of the blackheads
• three brothers
• Swedish gate
• black balsam drink
• Latvian war museum
• museum of occupation
• albert street (art nouveau buildings)
• corner house museum (KGB)
• national history museum of Latvia
• ethnographic open air museum of Latvia
• Latvian national museum of art
• riga art nouveau museum
• rozengrals medieval restaurant

Sigulda

• sigulda castle
• turaida castle
• tarzans adventure park
• gutmanis cave

Kuldiga

• kuldiga district museum
• live museum

Cesis

• cesis castle
• cesis manor house

Lithuania

Vilnius *

• uzupis neighbourhood
• museum of genocide
• gate of dawn
• gediminas tower (views)
• three crosses hill
• national museum of Lithuania
• palace of the grand dukes of Lithuania
• miracle tile (spin clockwise 3x for wish)
• church of sts peter and paul
• st anne church
• presidential palace (book in advance)

Kaunas *

• house of perkunas (exterior)
• presidential palace
• kaunas castle
• pazaislis monastery
• devil’s museum
• ninth fort museum

Klaipeda

• history museum of Lithuania minor
• blacksmith’s museum
• castle museum (not actually a castle)
• museum of clocks
• maridianas ship restaurant

Hill of crosses *
Trakai castle *

Luxembourg

Luxembourg city *

• bock casemats (caves)
• ducal palace (exterior)
• national museum of history and art
• city museum
• chocolate house
• museum of modern art (highly recommended)

Vianden

• castle: medieval castle
• vianden city history museum
• victor hugo house

Malta

Valletta *

• National Museum of Archaeology
• St. John’s Co-Cathedral
• Palace State Rooms
• Casa Rocca Piccola
• Barrakka Gardens

Mdina

• Mdina dungeons
• St. Agatha’s and Paul’s catacombs
• Norman House

Marsaxlokk

• St. Peter’s Pool

Rabat

• St. Paul’s catacombs

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum: Neolithic structure
Victoria

• Citadella

Birgu

• Fort St. Angelo
• Inqusitor’s Palace (most haunted in Malta)
• 3 gates
• Malta Maritime Museum
• Sicolo-Norman House

Senglea
Cospicua

Montenegro

Budva

• archaeological museum

Ulcinj

• museum of ulcinj
• salina bird reserve
• learn of don Quixote, written in ulcinj

Gornji Stoliv: tiny but cute somewhat abandoned town

Netherlands

den bosch *

• city hall (decorated)
• cathedral
• noordbrabants museum: dutch art
• design museum
• bosch centre
• bossche bol dessert

Alkmaar

• cheese museum
• beer museum
• beatles museum
• stedelijk museum (history and art)

Breda

• breda castle
• bouvigne castle (half hour walk)
• stedelijk museum (history)

Delft

• church has grave of vermeer
• new church: grave of William of orange & views
• museum prisenhof (history & art)

Den burg: seaside island

• house of antiquities
• beaches
• stitchting texels museum

Groningen

• Groningen museum (exhibition based)
• tea museum
• grid grafisch museum: printing
• open air museum het hoogeland
• menkemaborg estate
• fraeylemaborg estate (less exciting)

Haarlem

• corrie ten boom house: refuge home for jews during world war ii
• molen de adriaan: tours and views from top
• jopen brewery (or other local brewery)

The hague

• king’s working palace
• binnehof parliament building
• museum meermanno (book museum)
• madurodam war memorial
• panorama mesdag: 19th century 360 painting
• Escher in the palace (Escher was a math-based artist)
• peace palace
• museum voorlinden: contemporary art
• prison gate museum

Leiden

• museum de valk windmill

Maastricht

• Dominicanen bookstore: cool bookstore
• helpoort: oldest town gate in the Netherlands
• bonnefanten museum: art
• st peter’s caves: gothic era caves

Rotterdam

• the new institute: exhibit based museum
• the cubicle houses
• Netherlands architecture institute
• kunsthal
• yellow bridge
• delfshaven historic area
• havenmuseum: harbour museum

Utrecht

• dom tower (views)
• DOM under tour (city history)
• centraal museum: mixture of city culture
• speelklok museum
• ganzenmarkt tunnel

De haar castle *
Nijmegen (oldest city in NL)

• museum het valkhof: art
• afrika museum
• brewery de hemel
• infocentre WWII
• mueZIEum: blind for an hour
• de bastei: geographical history

Muiderslot *: medieval castle
Zaanse schans *

• de kaat mill, de gekroonde poelenburg, de zoeker (free), de bonte hen, het klaverbad, de bleeke dood (oldest smock mill in NL), de huisman (spices)
• clog workshop (small museum)
• cheese farm de catherinahoeve: cheese making demonstrations
• zaans museum
• windmill museum
• bakery museum (local sweet bread)
• cacaolab: chocolate making workshop

Amsterdam *

• history bike tour
• brouqerij’t IJ
• museum of sex
• cheese museum
• houseboat museum
• stedelijk museum (contemporary art)
• cat museum
• tropenmuseum (tropical areas only?)
• Amsterdam museum
• old & new churches
• erotic museum
• hemp museum
• royal palace
• cromhothuis house museum

Middelburg

• Abbey of Middelburg
• Zeeuws Museum (Zeeland)

Dordrecht: cute town
Hindeloopen: cute seaside town

• Museum of Hindeloopen

Leeuwarden

• Fries Museum (art)
• Museumhuis van Eysinga
• National Museum of Ceramics

Naarden Vesting

• The Spanish house
• Hertenkamp (deer park)

Deventer

• Museum de waag: history

Norway

Tromso *

• cable car excursion (views)
• arctic cathedral
• polaria arctic experience centre
• polar museum
• olhallen pub
• tromso museum
• northern Norway art museum
• reindeer tour w/ Sami people
• tromso open air museum

Oslo *

• akershus fortress
• Viking ship museum
• oslo cathedral interior
• national museum of art, architecture, and design
• national museum (has the scream)
• munch museum
• royal palace
• damstredet/telthusbakken old town areas
• var frelsers (munch grave)
• oslo city museum
• norwegian museum of cultural history
• vigeland museum (sculptures)

Bergen *

• funicular (views)
• hanseatic museum: old trade
• pepperkakebyen: biggest gingerbread city
• bergenhus fortress
• old Bergen museum
• st mary church (oldest building in Bergen)
• Norwegian fisheries museum
• bryggen area
• KODE: art museum (4 museums total)
• university museum of Bergen cultural history collections

Alesund

• alesund museum
• art nouveau centre
• sunnmore open air museum

Trondheim

• rockheim museum: rock and pop
• munkholmen: Viking execution site and monastery
• archbishop’s palace museum
• nidaros cathedral
• Trondheim art museum: Norwegian art
• national museum of decorative arts
• sverresborg open air museum
• kristiansten fort: old fort used by nazis
• Trondelag folk museum

Roros: cute small town
Lofoten: pretty islands with fishing villages
Gudvangen

• Viking Valley Njardarheimr (actual Vikings?)

Notodden

• Heddal Stave Church

Luster

• Urnes Stave Church

Borgund

• Borgund Stave Church

Skudeneshavn

• Maelandsgarden Museum (open air)

Stavanger

• Domkirke (in use since 1300s)
• City Museum
• Museum of Archaeology
• Swords in stone monuement (out of the way)
• Ovre Holmegate area

Kristiansand

• Kristiansand Museum (open air)
• Sorlandets Kunstmuseum (Norwegian art)
• Vest-Agder-Museum Gimle Gard manor museum

Lillehammer

• Maihaugen open air museum (has stave church)
• Bjornstjerne Bjonston’s home

Heddal Stave Church: beautiful
Fredrikstad: cute old city (may need to take ferry to get there)
Skudeneshavn: cute old city

• Lighthouse
• beach

Karmoy

• viking history center
• st olav’s church
• beach

Kaupang

• Stave church
• Viking town

Poland

Warsaw

• Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanow

Krakow

• Museum Gallery of the 19th Century Polish Art

Jelenia Gora
Ksaiz Castle

Portugal

Lisbon *

• miradouro (views)
• national tile museum
• belem tower
• jeronimos monastery
• museum of art, architecture, and technology
• praca do comercio square
• palacio dos marqueses da fronteira
• livraria Bertrand: world’s oldest bookstore
• carmo archaeological museum: church ruins
• rossio square
• elevador de santa justa (views)
• basilica da estrela
• castelo de sao Jorge
• ginjinha (berry liquor)
• pastel de nata
• fado singing
• Calouste Gulbenkian Museum: art
• ajuda national palace
• national pantheon

Porto

• bolsa palace
• libraria lello: pretty library
• clerigos tower (views)
• serra do pilar monastery
• rota do cha: tea house

Sintra *

• pena palace
• Moorish castle
• quinta de regaleira & gardens
• sintra palace
• monserrate palace
• cascais: nearby seaside town

Obidos

• ginja in chocolate cups
• obidos castle (exterior)
• sanhora da graca door

Coimbra

• machado de castro museum: history
• walled city centre
• bissayo barreto house museum
• santa clara-a-velha convent ruins
• santa cruz church
• seminario mayor de Coimbra
• joanina library: beautiful library

Guimaraes *

• guimaraes castle
• palace of the dukes of Braganza
• alberto sampaio museum: art
• martins sarmento: stone age archaeological site
• sao Francisco convent
• nossa senhora da oliveira monastery

Lagos *
Evora *

• church of st francis and bone chapel
• evora museum
• cathedral of evora
• casa pintadas: murals
• megaliths tour
• king manuel’s palace
• loios church
• cadaval palace

Aveiro

• salt spa
• aveiro museum
• vista alegre museum: porcelain
• art nouveau museum & city walk map
• ovos moles treat (NOT veggie)

Braga

• Palacio do Riao
• Museu Pio XII
• Museu dos Biscainhos house museum
• Bom Jesus do Monte
• Braga Cathedral
• Nogueria da Silva Museum gardens
• Monastery of Sao Martinho de Tibaes

Lindoso: ancient buildings on stilts
Faro

• Se Cathedral
• Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Carmo bone chapel
• Museu de Faro
• Centro Cultural de Faro (art galleries)

Lagoa: SandCity sand sculpture festival
Viana do Castelo

• Museum of Decorative Arts
• Convent of Sao Domingos
• Capelda de Nossa Senhora de Agonha
• Costume Museum (ethnography)
• Se Cathedral
• Santuario de Santa Luzia
• Montedor Windmills

Costa Nova: colorful beachside town
Nazare

• Funicular to upper part of town
• Ermida da Memoria

Monsaraz: cute little town
Funchal

• Fortress
• Palace gardens

Mafra

• Palacio de Mafra
• Monastery Library
• Iberian Wolf Recovery Center

Ericeira: cute seaside town
Tavira

• Igreja da Misericordia Tavira

Monsanto: medieval town
Conimbriga: ancient Roman ruins
Ferragudo: cute beach town
Talasnal: tiny but cute town
Marvao: cute hilltop village
Piodao: tiny but cute town

Romania

Bucharest

• patriarchal cathedral
• people’s palace (interior)
• revolution square
• dimitrie gusti national village museum (open air)
• Curate veche (statue of vlad the impaler)
• national museum of art
• museum of art collections
• museum of the Romanian peasant
• national museum of contemporary arts
• vilacrosse and macca passages
• macca house abandoned building (booked with combo tour only)
• pasajul victoria (rainbow umbrellas)
• sighet memorial exhibition (communism)
• national museum of history
• bellu cemetery
• roman athenaeum (exterior – inside is concert hall)
• romanian kitsch museum (Romanian culture)

Brasov

• council square
• black church
• tampa mountain (cable car available)
• catherine’s gate
• bear sanctuary (may be out of the way)
• rope street (skinny street)
• museum of brasov urban civilization (history)
• weaver’s bastion

Sibiu *

• brunkenthal national museum (art)
• catholic basilica
• orthodox church (interior)
• council tower (views)
• pharmacy museum (small)
• bridge of lies
• astra museum (open air)
• urban brewery
• house of arts

Sighisoara *

• sighisoara history museum (views)
• vlad the impaler’s birthplace
• scholar’s stairway
• church of the Dominican monastery (bust of Dracula)

Corvin castle: medieval, a bit bare
Cluj-napoca

• parcul cetatuia (views)
• Romulus vuia ethnographic park
• papanasi donuts
• Matthias corvinus birthplace (exterior)
• banffy palace museum of art

peles castle:* renaissance
bran castle:* medieval
Viscri: adorable town
Harman: has impressive fortified church
Bucovina

• Painted monasteries
• Arbore, Humor, Moldovița, Pătrăuți , Probota, Suceava, Voroneț, Sucevița

Maramures

• 8 churches
• Merry Cemetery

Vatra Moldoviței

• Painted church

Sighetu Marmatiei

• Memorial to the Resistence
• Elie Wiesel Memorial House
• Sighet Village Museum
• Ethnography Museum

Russia

St. Petersburg *

• State Hermitage Museum
• Russian Museum
• Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
• Catherine Palace
• Alexander Palace
• Peter and Paul Cathedral
• Petrogradsky District (architecture)
• Petrovskaya Akvatoria Scale model museum (history via models)
• Grand Peterhof Palace
• Bronze Horseman statue
• St. Isaac’s Cathedral
• Moika Palace
• Naval Cathedral
• Cabin of Tsar Peter the Great (first in St. Petersburg)
• Smolny Convent
• Faberge Museum
• Kunstkammer Museum (oddities)
• Mariinsky Theatre (Russian ballet)

Moscow *

• St Basil’s Cathedral
• Lenin Mausoleum
• Kremlin Red Square
• Tretyakovskaya Gallery (Russian painting)
• Izmailovo Kremlin (modelled after old Russia)
• Tsaritsyno Palace (home of Catherine the Great)
• Cathedral of Christ the Savior
• Cold War Museum
• Soviet Dacha Museum
• Institute of Russian Realist Art
• GULAG Museum (Russian genocide)
• Vodka Museum
• Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (large collection)
• Kuskovo Estate
• State Historical Museum

Sergiev Posad (Golden Ring)

• Holy Trinity-St Sergius Lavra
• Cherinigovsky skete (monastery)
• Peasant Life Museum
• Sergiev Posad History and Art Museum

Yaroslavl (Golden Ring)

• Transfiguration Monastery
• Cathedral of the Assumption
• Church of Elijah the Prophet
• Specialty is lacquer boxes
• Yar-Kremlin with small museums

Rostov Veliky (Golden Ring)

• Church of the Saviour-over-the-Galleries
• Cathedral of the Assumption
• Monastery of St Jacob Saviour
• Museum of Finift (enamel)

Vladimir (Golden Ring)

• Golden Gates
• Assumption Cathedral
• Demetrius Cathedral
• History Museum (small)
• Vodonapornaya Bashnya Museum (history through glass, has views)
• Chamber Official Palace (??)

Suzdal (Golden Ring)

• Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery frescoes
• Kremlin
• Monastery of Saint Euthymius
• Cathedral of the Nativity
• Church of the Transfiguration
• Ramparts
• Pokrovsky Monastery (women)
• Aleksandrovsky Muzhskoy Monastery (men)
• Deposition of the Robe Convent (views)
• Antipievskaya Church
• Uspenskaya Church (new)
• Museum of Wooden Architecture

Pereslavl-Zalessky (Golden Ring)

• Nikitsky Monastery
• Transfiguration Cathedral
• Goritsy Monastery of Resurrection
• Museum of Kettle (tea)
• Feodorvsky Convent
• Red Square

Kostroma (Golden Ring)

• Romanovsky Museum (art and history of Romanovs)
• Museum of Ancient Architecture
• Holy Trinity Ipatiev Monastery
• Bogoyavlensky Convent
• Museum Kostroma Sloboda (wooden buildings)
• Susaninsky Square

Ivanovo (Golden Ring)

• Stitching and Embroidery Factory

Veliky Novgorod

• St. Sofia’s Cathedral (oldest in Russia)
• Vitoslavlitsy Museum (open air)

Kazan *

• Epiphany Cathedral (views)
• Museum of Soviet Lifestyle
• Temple of All Religions
• Soyembika Tower
• Tatar food (chak-chak dessert)
• Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral
• Hermitage (small Hermitage)
• Museum of the Republic of Tartarstan
• Museum of Chak-Chak
• Old Tatar Settlement

San Marino

San Marino

• vampire museum
• three towers
• basilica of san marino
• museum of san Francesco
• museum of agriculture culture

Scotland

Castle Stalker: medieval castle on island
Eilean Donan *
Portree (area)

• Skye Museum of island life
• Fairy pools
• Fairy glen

Orkney: ancient archipelago

• Orkney museum

Dundee

• V&A Dundee
• McManus Dundee Art Museum
• Claypotts Castle (medieval)
• Dundee Vaults

Shetland Islands

• Shetland Ponies
• Jarlshof
• Old Scatness
• Scalloway Castle
• Shetland Museum

Glasgow

• St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
• Provand’s Lordship medieval house
• People’s Palace (modern history)
• Hunterian Art Gallery
• Mackintosh House
• Kelvingrove Art Gallery

Dunnottar Castle: medieval ruin
Crathes Castle: neo-medieval?
Kirkcudbright

• MacLellan’s Castle

Falkland
Culross
Crail
Tobermory: small colourful town on the water
Plockton: small but cute town

• Calum's seal trips

Serbia

Belgrade *

• Belgrade Fortress
• Belgrade Underground
• National Museum of Serbia
• Skadarlija (Bohemian area)
• Museum of Nikola Tesla
• Zemun area
• Sava cathedral
• Marcus church
• Rakija (national drink)

Novi Sad

• Petrovaradin Fortress Catacombs
• Museum of Vojvodina (history)
• Bishop’s palace
• Museum of Unification
• Gallery of Matica Srpska

Slovakia

Bratislava

• Bratislava castle (interior is boring)
• old town hall (views)
• Bratislava city museum
• primatial palace
• the blue church

Kosice

• Rodosto bastion (medieval torture)
• East Slovak museum
• Coat of arms (oldest in Europe)

Banska Stiavnica

• Old Castle
• New Castle
• Calvary

Slovenia

Piran *

• Bell tower (views)
• Mermaid statue
• The Magical World of Seashells
• St. George’s Church
• Venetian House
• Tartini House (museum of violinist)
• 1st of May Square
• Museum of Underwater Activities

Ljublijiana *

• St. Nicholas Cathedral
• Union Beer Experience
• Neboticnek (views)
• Museum of Architecture and Design (in a castle)

Lipica Stud Farm: horses
Lake Bled

• Bled Island
• Bled Castle
• Mala Osojnica
• Bled Cream Cake
• Gingerbread Museum

Predjama Castle: cliff castle, looks boring inside
Koper: small seaside town, mini Piran
Maribor

• Maribor Castle (regional museum)
• Lent Area
• Old Vine (oldest living vine) – vine house has small history of wine and tastings
• Museum of National Liberation

Skofja Loka: pretty old town

• Skofka Loka castle (museum and views)
• Three Castle path
• Homan House (exterior? Has frescoes)

Ptuj (oldest town in Slovenia)

• Ptuj Castle (romantic interior)

Celje

• Old Count’s mansion (Slovenia)
• Celje castle (ruin)

Lake bohinj: cute lake with decorated church
Izola: pretty seaside city
Velika Planina: recreated village in the alps
Zgornje Jezersko: a place of nature with a lake

Spain

Madrid *

• Museo Reina Sofia (modern art)
• plaza de cebiles
• palacio de cibeles
• museo lazaro galdiano: small art museum
• museo del romanticismo

Cordoba

• Archaeological Ensemble of Madinat Al-Zahra

Seville

• Archaeological Ensemble of Italica
• Archaeological Museum of Sevilla
• Museum of Arts and Traditions

Toledo *

• Toledo cathedral
• alcazar
• san juan de los reyes monastery
• puerta de bisagra
• mirador del valle (views)
• Puente de san martin
• el Greco museum
• plaza de zocodover
• puerta del sol
• Puente de alcantara
• mosque of cristo de la luz: oldest building in Toledo
• iglesia de san roman: museum of Visigoth culture

Granada

• Carrera del Darro and the Paseo de los Tristes
• Monasterio de San Jerónimo

Barcelona *

• sagrada familia
• las ramblas
• park guell
• casa vicens (views)
• casa mila
• placa del rei
• Barcelona history museum
• museu Picasso
• national museum of catalan art
• gracia area
• casa batllo
• la baqueria market
• gothic quarter area
• museum of world cultures
• museum of chocolate
• parc de la ciutadella
• hemp museum
• museum of the history of catalonia

Figueres

• Dali museum

Avila *

• los cuatro postes (may be out of the way – pilgrimage)
• bascilica de san Vicente
• avila museum
• palacio de los Verdugo (may be boring)
• vetton interpretation centre (pre-roman ancient people)
• mysticism interpretation centre

San sebastian

• san telmo museoa: basque artefacts
• Castillo de la mota (views)

Santander

• Magdalena palace (tours in Spanish)
• MUPAC – prehistory museum (cave art)
• maritime museum

Oviedo

• fine arts museum of asturias

Santiago de compostela

• casa do cabildo (may not be able to enter)
• museo das peregrinacions (pilgrimage museum)
• museum of the Galician people
• praza das praterias
• cathedral & museum
• holy land museum

Pamplona

• museum of Navarre (art)
• white asparagus

Logrono

• centro de la cultura del rioja (wine and history)
• museo de la rioja (also history and wine)

Burgos *

• burgos castle
• museum of human evolution
• arcos santa maria
• monasterio de las huelgas (burial of kings and queens)
• history of burgos museum
• mirador del Castillo (views)
• museum of books
• casa del cordon

Segovia

• alcazar
• city gate
• torre de juan ii (views)
• royal palace of la granja (out of the way)
• gastronomy museum
• casa de los picos (house – exterior)
• casa de la moneda: museum of money

Salamanca

• palacio de la salina
• casa de las conchas
• museum of art nouveau and deco
• roman bridge

Valencia

• pope luna’s castle
• silk exchange (looks boring)
• house of rocas (carriages)
• museo fallero: fallas festival
• museum of fine arts
• history of Valencia museum
• museum of ceramics and decorative arts: rococo museum

Ibiza
Palma

• castell bellver
• la almudaina royal palace
• palau de l’almudaina (alcazar)
• joan miro house (artist)
• santa catalina area
• casa solleric: art museum
• museo de Mallorca: history

Antequera

• museum of antequera
• dolmens
• alcazaba

Besalu

• miniature museum

Santillana: small medieval town

• Altamira caves (prehistoric art)

Alquezar: medieval town

• casa Fabian: local customs

Altea: small medieval town
Villajoyosa

• la vila museum
• chocolate factory tours

Bilbao

• Guggenheim museum
• museum of fine arts

Girona

• cathedral & city walls
• museum of cinema
• art museum
• arab baths
• casa maso (house of catalan architect)
• jewish history museum
• monastery of st daniel

Cuenca: medieval town with small museums

• alfonso viii tunnels
• paleontology musuem

Alicante: modern seaside town with small old town
Cadaques

• dali museum (may be out of the way)
• portlligat house

Sitges

• Cau Ferrat Museum
• Palau Maricel
• Museu Maricel (separate from above)

San Cristobal de la Laguna

• Museum of the History of Tenerife
• House of the Captains General
• Cayetano House Museum

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

• Museum of Nature and Archaeology

Merida

• Roman theatre
• Casa romana
• Casa del mitreo
• Museum of Roman Art
• Roman forum
• Temple of Diana
• Arco de trajana
• Cripta de santa eulalia

Marbella

• Ralli Museum (art)

Estepona
Frigiliana

• 12 plaques
• Miradora de santo cristo

Murcia

• Real Casino de Murcia – building with different designed rooms
• Salzillo museum (painted sculpture)

Cartagena

• Roman theatre
• Molinete archaeological park (Roman)
• Augusteum
• The House of Fortune
• The Crypt of the Guild of St Joseph
• Museum of the Civil War

Ribadesella: colourful seaside town
Valladolid

• Cathedral
• Santa Cruz Palace
• Casa-Museo de Colon (Christopher Columbus)
• Casa de Cervantes (writer of Don Quijote)
• Valladolid museum (archaeology and fine art)

Calatanazor: tiny but adorable old town
Mijas: cute white town
Peratallada: cute old village
Potes: cute unique looking town
Caceres: city with cute old town
Albarracin: cute old village
Alcala del Jucar: interesting town on side of rock
Valldemossa: cute stone town
Frias: cute stone town
Hondarribia: beach town with cute old town
Laguardia: cute old town
Vejer de la Frontera: cute white town
Teruel: has interesting architecture
Tossa de Mar: beach & castle ruins
Pals: small medieval town
Valderrobres: super cute medieval town
Barcena Mayor: super cute old town

Sweden

Stockholm

• Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde
• Royal Palace
• Medieval Museum

visby

• gotland museum
• st Nicolai church ruin
• klinten (views)

malmo

• malmohus castle

gothenburg

• museum of art
• Swedish ship gothenburg
• museum of world cultures
• museum of gothenburg
• palm house botanical garden

ystad: small medieval town
uppsala *

• Uppsala castle
• gustavianum museum: world history collections
• gamla Uppsala: Viking Uppsala (a bit out of the way)
• museum of evolution
• Uppsala county museum
• old Uppsala museum
• Linnaeus museum
• disa open air farm

gammelstad

• visitor centre: history
• hagnan open air museum

Kalmar *

• Kalmar castle
• Kalmar lans museum (like vasa museum)
• west gate

Stockholm archipelago: nature
Birka: open air Viking city museum
Sigtuna *

• sigtuna museum
• runestones (ask for map at tourist office)
• lungstrom house museum

Skokloster castle: baroque castle
Gripsholm Castle
Vadstena: cute small town
Simrishamn: small colourful town
Vasteras

• Anundshög: archaeological site
• Frosakers Brygga viking village
• Kyrkbacken area
• Tido Castle
• Lots of other castles that don’t look too decorated on the inside

Eketorp Fort (medieval village)
Mörbylånga: small cute town
Smogen: cute seaside town
Arboga: cute little town
Linkoping

• Ona cultural reserve
• Gamla linkoping

Strangnas: small seaside town

Switzerland

Lavertezzo: cute town with swimmable river
Thun

• Thun castle

Lausanne

• Lausanne cathedral (views)
• Collection de l’art brut (untrained artists)
• Hermitage foundation (exhibition based)

Gruyeres

• Gruyeres castle (medieval)
• HR Giger museum

Zermatt

• Matterhorn Museum
• Hinterdorfstrasse

Grindelwald: cute alpine town
Vevey

• Chaplin’s World (Charlie Chaplin museum)
• Musee Jenisch Vevey (prints/drawings)

St Gallen

• Abbey library
• Textile museum
• Art museum
• Historical and ethnological museum

Chillion castle: famous castle
Brienz

• Ballenger open air museum

Grimentz: beautiful old town
Gstaad: cute mountain town
Saint-ursanne: tiny but charming town
Auvernier: small cute town
Rapperswil
Chur

• Graubunden Art Museum

Guarda: tiny painted town
Morcote: quaint lakeside village

• Scherrer Garden
• Church of St Anthony the Great

Oberhofen Castle: somewhat decorated castle

Ukraine

Kiev

• St. Volodymyr’s cathedral
• St. Sophia’s cathedral
• Chernobyl Museum
• Cave Monastery
• Museum of the Great Patriotic War
• St. Michael’s Monastery
• Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War
• Holodomar Genocide Museum
• St. Andrew’s Church

Lviv

• Armenian Cathedral
• Museum of Folk Architecture
• National Museum and Memorial of Occupation

Kamianets Podilskyi

• Castle
• Dominican Monastery
• St Peter and Paul Cathedral
• Church of the Exultation of the Cross

Odessa

• Odessa Passage
• Catacombs
• Transfiguration Orthodox Cathedral
• Beach

Uzhhorod

• Castle (regional history)
• Museum of Folk Life and Architecture
• Holy Cross Cathedral
• Christ the Saviour Cathedral

Wales

Aberystwyth

• Castle
• Pier & Beach
• Ceredigion Museum (Welsh culture)
• Magic of Life Butterfly House

Conwy

• Conwy Castle
• Plas Mawr medieval house
• Smallest House in Britain
• Aberconwy historic house
• Castle Hotel

Cardiff *

• Cardiff Castle
• National Museum
• Castell Coch (may be out of the way)
• St Fagan’s Open Air museum
• Victorian arcades
• Animal wall
• Spiller’s (world oldest record store)
• Cardiff Story Museum
• Museum of Cardiff

Llandudno: Victorian beach town
Tenby: Colorful beach town
Castell Coch: neoclassic castle
Hay on Wye: small but cute town