Must-SeeRome
Italy
The Colosseum, the Pantheon and 3,000 years of history, with some of Europe's best street life.
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Southern Europe
Ancient ruins, sunny islands and the Mediterranean table.
Countries
Andorra
A Pyrenean microstate for skiing and shopping.
Cyprus
Aphrodite's island, split in two.
Greece
Ancient ruins and blue-domed islands.
Italy
Rome, Renaissance art, and the best food on Earth.
Malta
Knights, ancient temples and limestone harbors.
Portugal
Tiled cities, port wine and Atlantic cliffs.
San Marino
The world's oldest republic, on a mountaintop.
Spain
Gaudí, flamenco, tapas and Moorish palaces.
Vatican City
The smallest country, holding some of the greatest art.
The Short List
Must-See
Must-SeeFlorence
Italy
The cradle of the Renaissance, with the Uffizi, Michelangelo's David and Brunelleschi's dome.
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Must-SeeVenice
Italy
A city of canals and palaces on a lagoon, with St. Mark's and the Grand Canal.
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Must-SeeAmalfi Coast and Capri
Italy
Pastel villages clinging to cliffs above the sea, with Positano, Ravello and the Isle of Capri.
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Must-SeePompeii and Naples
Italy
A Roman city frozen by Vesuvius in 79 AD, near chaotic, wonderful Naples, the home of pizza.
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Must-SeeMount Etna
Italy
Europe's tallest active volcano, with lava fields and craters above Sicily's coast.
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Must-SeeTre Cime di Lavaredo
Italy
Three limestone towers, the emblem of the Dolomites, circled by a famous day walk.
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Must-SeeLake Garda
Italy
Italy's largest lake, with Sirmione's castle and Malcesine's cable car up Monte Baldo.
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Must-SeeCapri and the Blue Grotto
Italy
A glamorous limestone island in the Bay of Naples, with its glowing sea cave.
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Must-SeeMatera
Italy
Ancient cave homes carved into a ravine, among the world's oldest lived-in towns.
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Must-SeeBarcelona
Spain
Gaudí's Sagrada Família, the Gothic Quarter and the beach, in Catalonia's lively capital.
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Must-SeeAlhambra and Granada
Spain
The Moors' astonishing hilltop palace, with free tapas in the town below. Book far ahead.
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Must-SeeMust-SeeAthens
Greece
The Parthenon above a chaotic modern city, with a superb museum, and tavernas of Plaka.
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Must-SeeSantorini
Greece
Whitewashed villages on a sunken volcano's rim, with Oia's famous sunsets. Very crowded in summer.
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Must-SeeVatican Museums and St. Peter's
Vatican City
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica. Book the museums ahead.
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Worth a DetourCinque Terre
Italy
Five colorful fishing villages on the Ligurian cliffs, linked by trails and a train.
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Worth a DetourTuscany and Siena
Italy
Rolling hills and hill towns, with Siena's shell-shaped square, San Gimignano's towers and Chianti.
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Worth a DetourThe Dolomites
Italy
Pale, jagged peaks that glow at sunset, with superb hiking and skiing and a Tyrolean feel.
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Worth a DetourMount Vesuvius
Italy
The volcano that buried Pompeii. Walk to the crater rim for the Bay of Naples.
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Worth a DetourCortina d'Ampezzo
Italy
The Dolomites' most glamorous resort, a Winter Olympics host in 1956 and 2026.
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Worth a DetourMadrid
Spain
The Prado, Reina Sofía and Thyssen, a royal palace and great late-night tapas.
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Worth a DetourSeville
Spain
Andalusia's soul: the huge cathedral and Giralda, the Royal Alcázar and flamenco.
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Worth a DetourSan Sebastián and Bilbao
Spain
A perfect bay, with Europe's best pintxos bars, and the Guggenheim's titanium curves nearby.
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Worth a DetourCamino de Santiago
Spain
Europe's great pilgrimage walk, ending at the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
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Worth a DetourMontserrat
Spain
A sawtooth mountain with a Benedictine monastery and its Black Madonna, near Barcelona.
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Worth a DetourMycenae, Epidaurus and Nafplio
Greece
Agamemnon's citadel, a perfect ancient theater, and a lovely Venetian port town.
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Portugal
Old trams on steep hills, tiled houses, Belém and fado, with custard tarts on every corner.
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Worth a DetourPorto
Portugal
A granite riverside city, famous for port wine lodges, and a tiled train station.
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Worth a DetourSintra
Portugal
The colorful Pena Palace and mysterious estates, in misty hills near Lisbon.
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If You're NearbyLake Como
Italy
Grand villas and small ferries on a lake below the Alps, with Bellagio at its center.
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If You're NearbyMilan
Italy
Italy's fashion and business capital, with a marble cathedral and Leonardo's Last Supper.
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If You're NearbySicily
Italy
Greek temples at Agrigento, Palermo's markets, baroque Noto, and Mount Etna.
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Italy
Italy's food capital: tagliatelle, Parma ham, balsamic vinegar and porticoes, with Ravenna's mosaics nearby.
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If You're NearbyPuglia and Matera
Italy
Matera's ancient cave city, Alberobello's cone-roofed trulli, and whitewashed seaside towns.
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Italy
Some of the Mediterranean's clearest water, with the stone towers of the Nuragic people.
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If You're NearbyVal Gardena and Seceda
Italy
Ladin villages under the jagged Seceda ridge, one of the Dolomites' great views.
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Italy
Italy's side of Mont Blanc, with the Skyway cable car, castles and Roman Aosta.
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If You're NearbyLake Maggiore and the Borromean Islands
Italy
Palace islands with terraced gardens, on an Alpine lake shared with Switzerland.
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Italy
Volcanic islands off Sicily. Watch Stromboli's eruptions at night from a boat.
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Italy
A tiny, painted harbor on the Italian Riviera, beloved of the yachting set.
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Italy
Pompeii's smaller neighbor, better preserved, with wooden beams and upper floors.
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Italy
A Renaissance water garden, and an emperor's vast retreat, near Rome.
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Italy
Some of the best-preserved Greek temples anywhere, at Agrigento in Sicily.
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Italy
Sicily's chaotic capital of street food and markets, with Monreale's golden cathedral.
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Italy
Italy's elegant first capital, with the Egyptian Museum, the Shroud and chocolate.
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Italy
Romeo and Juliet's city, with summer opera in its Roman arena.
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Italy
The hill town of St. Francis, and its great frescoed basilica, with Orvieto and Perugia nearby.
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Italy
A wild bareback horse race around Siena's main square, every July and August.
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If You're NearbyAlpe di Siusi
Italy
Europe's largest high meadow, facing the Dolomites' sharpest peaks.
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Italy
The Italian-Austrian gateway to the Dolomites, home of Ötzi the Iceman.
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If You're NearbyGran Sasso and Abruzzo
Italy
The Apennines' highest peak, above the vast Campo Imperatore plateau.
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Italy
The Italian side of the Matterhorn, with high, snow-sure skiing.
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Spain
The great Mezquita's forest of striped arches, with a cathedral at its heart.
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Spain
Spain's Atlantic islands, with Teide volcano and Lanzarote's black lava fields.
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Spain
A cliff-split town with its great bridge and old bullring, among whitewashed villages.
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Spain
A giant Roman aqueduct and fairy-tale castle, an easy trip from Madrid.
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Spain
Mainland Spain's highest mountains, with white villages on their southern slopes.
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Spain
Deep canyons beneath Monte Perdido, in Spain's oldest national park.
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Spain
Black lava fields and vineyards, with César Manrique's architecture.
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Spain
Rugged coves, medieval Girona, and Dalí's theater-museum.
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Spain
Picasso's birthplace, with the Alcazaba, and Spain's busiest sunshine coast.
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Spain
Spain's oldest university, with golden stone and a superb main square.
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Spain
The cathedral at the end of the Camino, said to hold the apostle James.
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Spain
Hooded brotherhoods carry ornate floats through the streets in Spain's most famous Holy Week.
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Spain
Pamplona's Running of the Bulls, in July. It's controversial and dangerous.
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Spain
One of Europe's oldest cities, by the home of sherry and dancing horses.
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Spain
Saint Teresa's town, inside some of Europe's best-preserved medieval walls.
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Spain
The Sistine Chapel of cave art. Visitors see an exact replica beside the cave.
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Greece
The ancient oracle's mountainside sanctuary, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus.
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If You're NearbyCrete
Greece
Minoan Knossos, Chania's harbor, pink Elafonisi and the long Samaria Gorge.
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Greece
A glamorous party island with windmills, a short boat from sacred, ruined Delos.
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Greece
The first Olympic site, with Mycenae and Nafplio's Venetian old town nearby.
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Greece
A green Venetian island, with Zakynthos's famous Navagio Beach nearby.
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Greece
The famous shipwreck cove below white cliffs, plus sea turtles.
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Greece
Stone villages and arched bridges, by one of the world's deepest gorges.
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Greece
Pine-covered islands, and the Mamma Mia chapel on its rock.
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Greece
A Byzantine ghost city on a mountainside, near what's left of Sparta.
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Greece
A self-governing peninsula of 20 monasteries. Only men may land, but boats tour its coast.
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Greece
Stone villages and a narrow-gauge train on the mythical home of the centaurs.
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Greece
The peak above Delphi, sacred to Apollo, with skiing at Arachova.
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If You're NearbyValletta
Malta
A golden fortress capital, with a Caravaggio in its stunning cathedral.
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Malta
A quieter island, with Ġgantija's temples older than Stonehenge, and a bright blue swimming spot.
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Portugal
Three great monasteries, including the Knights Templar's headquarters.
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Portugal
A Roman temple and a chapel of bones, among cork forests.
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Portugal
A baroque stairway up a hill, and Portugal's birthplace.
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Portugal
Portugal's only national park, with granite villages and waterfalls.
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Portugal
Portugal's highest peak, a volcano in the Azores above UNESCO-listed vineyards.
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