What you are travelling for
Seventeen ways to cross a continent.
Not a list of everything Europe has. Seventeen tags that each narrow 319 destinations to a set worth reading — and the useful ones are not the biggest. History covers almost the whole Atlas and tells you very little; the narrow ones are where a filter earns its place.
200 destinations · 63% of the Atlas · 47 countries
History & ruins
Greece, Italy and Spain carry the most of it
157 destinations · 49% of the Atlas · 42 countries
Food
France, Spain and Italy carry the most of it
126 destinations · 39% of the Atlas · 43 countries
Architecture
Spain, Italy and France carry the most of it
108 destinations · 34% of the Atlas · 43 countries
Wild nature
Norway, Greece and France carry the most of it
92 destinations · 29% of the Atlas · 29 countries
Coast & beaches
Greece, Norway and France carry the most of it
74 destinations · 23% of the Atlas · 32 countries
Sacred places
France, Greece and Spain carry the most of it
74 destinations · 23% of the Atlas · 41 countries
Big cities
France, Spain and Germany carry the most of it
63 destinations · 20% of the Atlas · 30 countries
Mountains
Norway, Greece and France carry the most of it
58 destinations · 18% of the Atlas · 29 countries
Art & museums
Italy, Spain and France carry the most of it
45 destinations · 14% of the Atlas · 21 countries
Music & nightlife
Germany, Spain and United Kingdom carry the most of it
41 destinations · 13% of the Atlas · 18 countries
Wine & drink
France, Italy and Spain carry the most of it
26 destinations · 8% of the Atlas · 14 countries
Islands
Greece, Norway and France carry the most of it
25 destinations · 8% of the Atlas · 14 countries
Snow & winter
Norway, Finland and Sweden carry the most of it
20 destinations · 6% of the Atlas · 12 countries
Design & making
Norway, Sweden and Denmark carry the most of it
19 destinations · 6% of the Atlas · 16 countries
Wildlife watching
Greece, Iceland and Spain carry the most of it
11 destinations · 3% of the Atlas · 6 countries
Slow travel by rail
Norway, Switzerland and Germany carry the most of it
3 destinations · 1% of the Atlas · 3 countries
Festivals
France, Spain and United Kingdom carry the most of it
Each shape is that tag’s own destinations on the continent, drawn to the same frame so the seventeen can be compared: a knot is an argument about one corner of Europe, a scatter is one about the whole of it. Drawn from Natural Earth 1:110m admin 0 countries, public domain. Longyearbyen at 78°N is above the top of this frame: the drawing stops where this atlas's map data does. The order is reach — how much of the Atlas each tag carries — rather than alphabetical, and the sentence under each name is the same judgement its own page makes. Two of them can be combined in Discover Mode, which is where a narrow tag does its real work.