Must-SeeZermatt and the Matterhorn
Switzerland
The world's most famous peak, above a car-free village.
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Central Europe
The Alps, imperial capitals and fairy-tale towns.
Countries
Austria
Imperial Vienna, Mozart's Salzburg and Alpine villages.
Czech Republic
Prague's spires, castles and the world's best beer.
Germany
Fairy-tale castles, deep history and beer gardens.
Hungary
Budapest's baths and the Danube bend.
Liechtenstein
A tiny Alpine principality.
Poland
Kraków's squares and a powerful history.
Slovakia
High Tatras and hilltop castles.
Slovenia
A small green land with a fairy-tale lake.
Switzerland
Alps, lakes, trains and chocolate.
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Must-SeeGrindelwald and the Eiger
Switzerland
An Alpine village right under the Eiger's notorious north face.
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Must-SeePrague
Czech Republic
A largely intact old city, with Charles Bridge, the castle, and an astronomical clock.
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Worth a DetourVienna
Austria
Palaces, coffeehouses and opera, with Schönbrunn and Klimt's The Kiss.
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Worth a DetourKitzbühel
Austria
A medieval ski town, home of the Hahnenkamm, the world's most feared downhill race.
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Worth a DetourBerlin
Germany
The Brandenburg Gate, the Wall and Museum Island, in Europe's edgy, creative capital.
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Worth a DetourMunich
Germany
Bavaria's capital, with beer halls, great art, and Dachau's memorial nearby.
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Worth a DetourOktoberfest
Germany
The world's largest beer festival, in Munich, from mid-September.
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Worth a DetourBerchtesgaden and the Eagle's Nest
Germany
Königssee's fjord-like lake, and Hitler's mountaintop retreat.
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Worth a DetourInterlaken and the Jungfrau
Switzerland
Waterfalls in Lauterbrunnen and Europe's highest railway station.
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Worth a DetourLucerne
Switzerland
A medieval covered bridge on a lake, with Pilatus's steep cogwheel train.
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Worth a DetourLauterbrunnen and Mürren
Switzerland
A valley of 72 waterfalls, with a car-free cliff-top village above it.
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Worth a DetourMount Pilatus
Switzerland
The world's steepest cogwheel railway, up from Lake Lucerne.
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Hungary
Grand Parliament, ruin bars and steaming Széchenyi Baths, on both sides of the Danube.
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Worth a DetourKraków
Poland
Europe's largest medieval square, Wawel Castle and an old Jewish quarter.
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Worth a DetourAuschwitz-Birkenau
Poland
The Nazi death camp, kept as a memorial and museum. Book ahead.
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Austria
The birthplace of modern skiing, with big terrain and famous après-ski.
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Austria
A lakeside town under a glacier, with skiing almost all year.
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Germany
A complete medieval walled town, on a road linking the Alps with Franconia.
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Germany
A rebuilt baroque city, with the Bastei's rock bridge nearby.
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Germany
A great port, with the Elbphilharmonie and where the Beatles started.
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Germany
A romantic red-sandstone castle above Germany's oldest university.
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Germany
Sandstone towers linked by a stone bridge, close to Dresden.
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Germany
A fairy-tale castle in a hidden valley, above steep vineyard river bends.
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Germany
Frederick the Great's palaces, where the Allies met in 1945.
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Germany
A baroque palace at the start of Germany's famous drive.
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Germany
A medieval center, the Nazi rally grounds, and Germany's top Christmas market.
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Germany
Germany's highest peak, reached by cogwheel train and cable car.
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Germany
The witches' mountain, reached by narrow-gauge steam train.
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Germany
Goethe's town, Luther's castle and a concentration camp memorial.
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Germany
A flower island, on a lake shared by three countries.
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Switzerland
Lake Geneva's Alps views, with the romantic Chillon Castle, and Lavaux vineyards.
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Switzerland
A revolving cable car up to a glacier, above a monastery village.
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Switzerland
A revolving summit restaurant, from On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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Switzerland
The Alps' longest glacier, in full view from Eggishorn and Bettmerhorn.
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Switzerland
Europe's largest plain waterfall, with boats to a rock mid-river.
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Switzerland
Painted village houses and cheese, with the Aescher cliff inn nearby.
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Switzerland
The Queen of the Mountains, with Europe's first mountain railway.
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Switzerland
Europe's highest city, known for skiing and the World Economic Forum.
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Switzerland
A startling blue high lake, reached by gondola.
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Switzerland
A hilltop castle town with famous cheese, and H.R. Giger's strange museum.
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Slovenia
Slovenia's national symbol and highest peak, a climb every Slovene is said to make.
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Czech Republic
A chapel decorated with 40,000 human skeletons, and a silver-town cathedral.
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Czech Republic
Sandstone pillars and Europe's largest natural arch.
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Czech Republic
The Holy Roman Emperor's castle, for his crown jewels, near Prague.
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Hungary
A vast grassy plain with Hungarian cowboys, and a nine-arched bridge.
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Poland
Thousands of lakes for sailing, with Hitler's Wolf's Lair bunkers.
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Slovakia
Slovakia's biggest ski area, with dragon-bone caves below.
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