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Places tagged for music and nightlife — which in Europe covers both a techno cellar in Berlin and an opera house in Parma, and the same list has to hold both.
The query Any destination tagged Music & nightlife. Run against all 319 destinations on every build, and nothing here is hand-picked — there is no field for naming a destination in a motion, deliberately. 66 match, in 21 countries; the 38 below are at most two per country.
All of them tagged Music & nightlife.
Dürnstein & the Wachau
A blue baroque tower over the Danube, terraced vineyards behind, and the castle where Richard the Lionheart was held.
Hallstatt
A lakeside village under a salt mountain, with 7,000 years of continuous mining and more visitors than it can hold.
Dinant
A citadel on a cliff over the Meuse, a bulbous cathedral below, and the birthplace of the saxophone.
Ghent
Bruges's rival, larger, younger and still a working student city rather than a museum of itself.
Brno
Czechia's second city: student, modernist and self-deprecating, with an ossuary of 50,000 under the square.
Prague
Romanesque, gothic, baroque and cubist stacked on top of each other, with a castle above and a bridge in between.
Copenhagen
A harbour city clean enough to swim in the middle of, with the densest good eating in the Nordics.
Roskilde
Viking ships raised from the fjord, thirty-nine Danish monarchs in one cathedral, and a festival in a field.
Savonlinna
A 15th-century castle on an island in the middle of Saimaa, which hosts opera in its courtyard each July.
Berlin
Poor, sexy, enormous and unfinished — five museums on one island and a wall memorial that refuses to be comfortable.
Dresden
A baroque royal capital burned in 1945 and rebuilt stone by numbered stone, on a river bend.
Athens
A sprawling modern capital with a 2,500-year-old temple on a rock in the middle and a food scene that got very good, quietly.
Ikaria
A steep island where people routinely live past ninety, festivals start at midnight and shops open when they open.
Budapest
Hilly Buda and flat Pest, joined by bridges, with a parliament on the water and a hundred hot springs underneath.
Szentendre
A Serbian Orthodox artists' town on the river, forty minutes from the capital by suburban rail.
Reykjavík
The northernmost capital of a sovereign state, small enough to cross on foot and loud on Friday nights.
Dingle
A fishing town on a peninsula of beehive huts, empty beaches and the westernmost point of Europe's mainland fringe.
Dublin
Georgian squares, a 1,200-year-old river crossing, and four Nobel laureates in literature from one small city.
Bologna
Forty kilometres of porticoes, the oldest university in the world, and the best eating in Italy.
Verona
A Roman arena still used for opera, a river bend of pink marble streets, and Valpolicella in the hills above.
Kuldīga
A wooden town on Europe's widest waterfall, which is only two metres high but 249 metres across.
Liepāja
A wind-blown port with a derelict tsarist naval town at its northern end and a rock music habit.
Amsterdam
A 17th-century canal plan that still works, with two of the world's great collections inside it.
Bergen
A hanseatic trading port wedged between seven mountains, wet 200 days a year and entirely unbothered about it.
Bodø
A rebuilt northern port with the strongest tidal current in the world at its door and Lofoten across the water.
Kraków
The royal capital that survived the war, with Europe's largest medieval square and a Jewish quarter that is now a district again.
Warsaw
Eighty-five per cent destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt from Canaletto's paintings, with a Stalinist tower and glass towers around it.
Lisbon
A tiled, hilly, sea-facing capital rebuilt on a grid after the 1755 earthquake, with trams that still climb the old parts.
Sintra
A microclimate of mist and forest on a ridge, with romantic palaces built into it by people with too much money.
Saint Petersburg
A planned imperial capital of canals and neoclassical facades, built on piles in a delta from 1703.
Belgrade
A fortress above the confluence of the Sava and the Danube, with floating clubs below it and brutalist New Belgrade opposite.
Novi Sad
A Habsburg river city under the Petrovaradin fortress, with wine hills behind it.
Cádiz
Possibly the oldest continuously inhabited city in western Europe, on a spit, surrounded by water on three sides.
Córdoba
The largest city in the world in the 10th century, with a mosque-cathedral of 856 columns at its centre.
Kyiv
A city founded in the 5th century on hills above a wide river, with a cave monastery from 1051 beneath it.
Lviv
An Austro-Hungarian city with an intact centre on the UNESCO list, a coffee tradition and a chocolate one.
Belfast
A Victorian industrial city working through its own recent past in public, with murals as the text.
Canterbury
The mother church of a global communion, in a walled town on the pilgrims' road from London.
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