Europe in Motion
Europe's culinary regions
Food and wine together, which in Europe usually means a place where what is grown, what is drunk and what is cooked all come from within about fifty kilometres.
The query Every destination tagged with all of Food and Wine & drink. 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. 86 match, in 19 countries; the 32 below are at most two per country.
All of them carries Food and Wine & drink.
Vienna
Habsburg on the outside, Freud and Klimt and social housing on the inside, with the world's best-funded music scene.
Nessebar
A rocky peninsula joined by a causeway, with more medieval churches per square metre than anywhere on the Black Sea.
Plovdiv
One of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited cities, on six hills, with a Roman theatre still in use.
Motovun
A walled hill town over a truffle forest, with a walkable rampart and a view of the whole Mirna valley.
Rovinj
A Venetian fishing town on a former island, with a campanile copied from San Marco and houses straight into the sea.
Omodos & the wine villages
Cobbled mountain villages growing indigenous grapes nobody else has, around a 12th-century monastery.
Brno
Czechia's second city: student, modernist and self-deprecating, with an ossuary of 50,000 under the square.
Mikulov
A chateau town on the Austrian border, surrounded by the country's best vineyards and a limestone ridge.
Amboise & the Loire châteaux
A royal town on the Loire, with Leonardo's last house at the top of it and Chenonceau downstream.
Amiens
The largest gothic cathedral in France by volume, and market gardens on canals behind it.
Sighnaghi & Kakheti
A walled hill town over the Alazani valley, with the Caucasus on the horizon and vineyards to the foot of them.
Tbilisi
Wooden balconies, a fortress above, sulphur baths below, and Persian, Russian and Soviet layers in the same street.
Cologne
A Roman city with a Gothic cathedral that took 632 years and dominates everything.
Chania, Crete
A Venetian harbour with an Ottoman quarter behind it, on an island large enough to be its own country.
Corfu
Venetian for four centuries and British for fifty, green all year, with an old town that looks nothing like the Aegean.
Tihany, Lake Balaton
A lavender peninsula with an abbey on a cliff, sticking into a shallow warm lake.
Tokaj
The world's first classified wine region, from 1737, on volcanic slopes at a river confluence.
Alghero, Sardinia
A Catalan-speaking walled port on Sardinia's northwest coast, with sea caves and Bronze Age towers inland.
Arezzo
A hill town with Piero della Francesca's greatest fresco cycle and none of Florence's queue.
Remich & the Moselle
Terraced vineyards on a slow river, with Germany on the far bank and Crémant cellars on this one.
Chișinău
A green, low-rise capital of parks and Soviet-era planning, with the wine country immediately outside it.
Lagos & the Algarve
Golden cliffs, sea caves and the harbour that launched the age of exploration — and, less proudly, Europe's first slave market.
Pinhão & the Douro valley
Terraced schist vineyards falling into a dammed river, worked by hand because machines cannot stand up on them.
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.
Bratislava
A compact old town under a white castle, with a communist-era bridge and a UFO on top of it.
Ljubljana
A capital of 300,000 with a car-free centre, a castle on the hill and Plečnik's architecture holding it together.
Piran
A Venetian town on a spit, with a salt pan beside it worked the same way since the 14th century.
Bilbao
A steel city that commissioned one building in 1997 and changed what cities thought was possible.
Girona & the Empordà
A walled river city with the widest gothic nave in the world, forty minutes from Barcelona and a fraction of the crowd.
Lugano
Palm trees, a glacial lake and Italian spoken everywhere, twenty minutes from the Alps.
Zermatt
A car-free village under the most photographed mountain on earth, with skiing possible in July.
Journeys that go this way
Across Iberia and along the coast
Atlantic to the Mediterranean
Porto · Lisbon · Évora · Seville · Granada · Barcelona · Nice · Rome
Six valleys, four countries, one mountain range
The Alpine Grand Tour
Chamonix · Zermatt · Lauterbrunnen · St. Moritz & the Engadin · Innsbruck · Ortisei & the Dolomites
Copenhagen to Budapest, all by rail
Scandinavia to Central Europe
Copenhagen · Hamburg · Berlin · Dresden · Prague · Vienna · Budapest
Themes that run through it
Eight regions that do not taste like each other
Wine Europe
Bordeaux · Beaune · Pinhão & the Douro valley · Tokaj · Sighnaghi & Kakheti · Mikulov · Santorini · Bacharach & the Rhine Gorge
Where the ferry timetable is the itinerary
Island Europe
Naxos · Vis · The Aran Islands (Inis Mór) · Texel · Islay · Victoria, Gozo · Nida, Curonian Spit · Lofoten (Svolvær)
The eighteenth-century route, still walkable
The Grand Tour
Paris · Lauterbrunnen · Milan · Venice · Florence · Rome · Naples · Athens
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