Europe in Motion
Europe in winter
Places tagged for winter: skiing where there is skiing, but also thermal baths, Christmas markets and the northern towns that are better under snow than under sun.
The query Any destination tagged Snow & winter. 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. 50 match, in 15 countries; the 25 below are at most two per country.
All of them tagged Snow & winter.
Andorra la Vella
Europe's highest capital at 1,023 metres, in a narrow valley, mostly shops with mountains directly behind them.
Madriu-Perafita-Claror
A glacial valley with no road into it, on the UNESCO list for a cultural landscape of summer pasture and stone huts.
Innsbruck
A university city at 574 metres with a 2,300-metre mountain reachable from the centre in twenty minutes.
Bansko
A stone-built mountain town under Pirin, with cheap skiing in winter and hut-to-hut walking in summer.
Rila Monastery
A fortified monastery in a forested valley, founded in the 10th century, with striped arcades and frescoes over every surface.
Inari
The centre of Sámi Finland, on a lake with three thousand islands.
Rovaniemi
The gateway to Lapland, rebuilt after 1944 to an Alvar Aalto plan shaped like reindeer antlers.
Annecy
A canal town on the cleanest large lake in Europe, with the Alps standing straight up behind it.
Beaune
The wine capital of Burgundy, inside its own walls, on the most valuable agricultural land on earth.
Berchtesgaden
An alpine corner surrounded on three sides by Austria, with a fjord-green lake below the Watzmann.
Munich
A wealthy southern capital with the Alps an hour away and a river you can surf in the middle of a park.
Bellagio & Lake Como
A village on the point where the lake divides, with villa gardens on both arms and ferries between them.
Milan
Italy's working city: fashion, design, finance, and a Last Supper that has to be booked months ahead.
Malbun
The country's only ski area, in a high bowl at 1,600 metres, with marmots and a chairlift.
Žabljak
The highest town in the Balkans at 1,450 metres, at the edge of Durmitor national park.
Alta
Finnmark's largest town, with 6,000-year-old rock carvings and a cathedral shaped like the aurora.
Bodø
A rebuilt northern port with the strongest tidal current in the world at its door and Lofoten across the water.
Zakopane & the Tatras
A wooden mountain town under the only alpine range in Poland, with its own architectural style.
Poprad & the High Tatras
The gateway town to a 26-kilometre range that reaches 2,655 metres and behaves like the Alps.
Bled
An island church in a glacial lake under a cliff-top castle — the most photographed thing in the country and still lovely at 7 am.
Bovec & the Soča
An alpine valley on an unreally turquoise river, and the front line of the Isonzo battles above it.
Abisko
A rain-shadowed valley with Sweden's clearest winter skies and the northern end of its greatest trail.
Kiruna
An iron-ore town so successful at mining that it is being physically moved, building by building, off the hole it dug.
Bern
The federal capital: six kilometres of arcades, a river you swim down, and Einstein's flat above a café.
Lauterbrunnen
A valley with vertical walls and seventy-two waterfalls, and car-free villages on the shelves above it.
Journeys that go this way
Midnight sun to hanseatic brick
Arctic to the Baltic
Tromsø · Lofoten (Svolvær) · Abisko · Stockholm · Helsinki · Tallinn · Riga
Six valleys, four countries, one mountain range
The Alpine Grand Tour
Chamonix · Zermatt · Lauterbrunnen · St. Moritz & the Engadin · Innsbruck · Ortisei & the Dolomites
Winter, treated as the reason rather than the problem
The Cold North
Helsinki · Rovaniemi · Inari · Tromsø · Abisko · Kiruna
Themes that run through it
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