Travelling for
Food
157 of the 319 destinations in this atlas are tagged food. As a filter on its own it barely narrows Europe. It is most useful combined with a second one in Discover Mode.
49% of the atlas · 42 of 50 countries · the second widest of 17 tags. Every destination carrying the tag, drawn on one frame so the seventeen can be compared. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The continent stops at 52°E on the right, where this atlas's map data ends, not at a coast.
The Nordics13
Aarhus
A student city with a rainbow walkway on its art museum and a reconstructed old town beneath it.
Copenhagen
A harbour city clean enough to swim in the middle of, with the densest good eating in the Nordics.
Helsinki
Neoclassical centre, brutal-modern edges, and a design district you can walk in an afternoon.
Porvoo
Red ochre warehouses on a river, and Finland's second-oldest town an hour from the capital.
Höfn & Jökulsárlón
A langoustine port beside Europe's largest ice cap, where icebergs float out to sea past a car park.
Reykjavík
The northernmost capital of a sovereign state, small enough to cross on foot and loud on Friday nights.
Bergen
A hanseatic trading port wedged between seven mountains, wet 200 days a year and entirely unbothered about it.
Kristiansand
A grid-planned town on the warmest stretch of Norwegian coast, with a bathing park in the middle of it.
Lindesnes
Norway's southernmost point, with a lighthouse on it and a restaurant five metres under the sea beside it.
Stavanger
Oil capital with a preserved wooden old town, and the most photographed cliff in Norway an hour away.
Trondheim
A student city built around the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world, and the end of a thousand-year pilgrim path.
Malmö
Post-industrial, young, and twenty minutes by train from Copenhagen across the bridge.
Stockholm
Water on every side, a preserved medieval core, and the best-funded museums in the Nordics.
The Baltic States3
Tallinn
A walled hanseatic town where the merchants' houses, the guild halls and the city wall all survived, and a startup district grew up beside them.
Riga
A hanseatic old town wrapped in a boulevard ring, wrapped in the best Art Nouveau streets in Europe.
Trakai
A red brick island castle in a lake, and the Karaim community that has lived beside it since the 14th century.
Britain & Ireland7
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.
Galway
A small port city that plays music every night of the week and treats a festival as its natural state.
Bath
A Roman bathing complex under a Georgian city built in one honey-coloured stone.
London
A city of villages that grew together, with the free national collections of a former empire in the middle of it.
St Ives
A Cornish fishing town whose light brought the modernists, and kept them.
York
Roman, Viking and medieval in the same square mile, inside walls you can walk around.
Western Europe26
Antwerp
Rubens's city and the world's diamond exchange, with a fashion school that reset the industry in the 1980s.
Bruges
A trading city frozen when its river silted up in the 1500s, which is why it looks like this.
Brussels
Art Nouveau streets, comic-strip walls, a gilded square, and the machinery of a continent in the eastern quarter.
Ghent
Bruges's rival, larger, younger and still a working student city rather than a museum of itself.
Amiens
The largest gothic cathedral in France by volume, and market gardens on canals behind it.
Annecy
A canal town on the cleanest large lake in Europe, with the Alps standing straight up behind it.
Arles
A Roman arena still in use, the Rhône delta at the door, and the year Van Gogh painted two hundred canvases here.
Beaune
The wine capital of Burgundy, inside its own walls, on the most valuable agricultural land on earth.
Biarritz & the Basque Coast
Atlantic surf, a Napoleonic resort, and a food culture that belongs to a nation without a state.
Bordeaux
An 18th-century stone city on a river bend, cleaned in the 2000s, with the world's most famous vineyards at the gates.
Colmar & the Alsace wine road
Half-timbered, geranium-hung, and German four times in a century — the food and the wine still say so.
Corte
The old Corsican capital in the mountainous centre, with the university that keeps the language alive and the GR20 above it.
La Rochelle
A Protestant merchant port behind three medieval towers, with an island of white houses across a bridge.
Le Puy-en-Velay
Chapels on top of volcanic plugs, green lentils with their own appellation, and the start of the oldest road to Santiago.
Lille
Flemish in its architecture and French in its administration, with the best food market north of Lyon.
Marseille
France's oldest city, founded by Greeks in 600 BC, Mediterranean rather than French in almost every respect.
Nice
An Italian city until 1860, with an old town that still cooks like one and a pebble bay that never closes.
Paris
Nineteenth-century town planning at monumental scale, with the world's densest concentration of art inside it.
Saint-Malo
A corsair city inside granite ramparts, rebuilt stone by stone after 1944, with a tidal range of twelve metres.
Sarlat & the Dordogne
A honey-coloured medieval town in a valley of castles, walnut groves and the oldest painted caves in Europe.
Strasbourg
A cathedral of pink sandstone over a half-timbered island, and the European Parliament twenty minutes away.
Toulouse
The pink city: brick everything, a Romanesque basilica, aerospace money and a canal to the Mediterranean.
Remich & the Moselle
Terraced vineyards on a slow river, with Germany on the far bank and Crémant cellars on this one.
Amsterdam
A 17th-century canal plan that still works, with two of the world's great collections inside it.
Rotterdam
Flattened in 1940 and rebuilt as an argument for modern architecture, on Europe's largest port.
Utrecht
Amsterdam's canals at half the scale and a fifth of the crowd, with wharf cellars at water level.
Alpine & Central Europe18
Vienna
Habsburg on the outside, Freud and Klimt and social housing on the inside, with the world's best-funded music scene.
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.
Cologne
A Roman city with a Gothic cathedral that took 632 years and dominates everything.
Hamburg
A merchant republic and Europe's third port, with more bridges than Venice and Amsterdam together.
Lübeck
The queen of the Hanseatic League, on an island, in brick gothic, and the home of marzipan.
Munich
A wealthy southern capital with the Alps an hour away and a river you can surf in the middle of a park.
Budapest
Hilly Buda and flat Pest, joined by bridges, with a parliament on the water and a hundred hot springs underneath.
Tokaj
The world's first classified wine region, from 1737, on volcanic slopes at a river confluence.
Gdańsk
A Hanseatic port of narrow gabled houses, where the war began and Solidarity ended it.
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.
Zakopane & the Tatras
A wooden mountain town under the only alpine range in Poland, with its own architectural style.
Bratislava
A compact old town under a white castle, with a communist-era bridge and a UFO on top of it.
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.
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.
Lugano
Palm trees, a glacial lake and Italian spoken everywhere, twenty minutes from the Alps.
The Mediterranean57
Nicosia
A Venetian star-shaped fortress city with a UN buffer zone through the middle and a crossing on the main shopping street.
Omodos & the wine villages
Cobbled mountain villages growing indigenous grapes nobody else has, around a 12th-century monastery.
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.
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.
Heraklion & Knossos
Crete's capital and the Minoan palace beside it — Europe's oldest city, and a reconstruction people still argue about.
Ikaria
A steep island where people routinely live past ninety, festivals start at midnight and shops open when they open.
Ioannina
An Ottoman lake city with an island in it, a silversmithing tradition and the gateway to Zagori.
Kardamyli & the Mani
Stone tower houses on a wild peninsula where blood feuds ran into the 20th century, above a clear sea.
Kavala
An Ottoman aqueduct over a harbour town, with Philippi's ruins inland and Thasos across the water.
Nafplio
Greece's first capital: Venetian, neoclassical, under two fortresses, on a gulf in the Peloponnese.
Naxos
The largest Cycladic island: mountain villages, marble quarries, a working agricultural interior and long sandy beaches.
Paros
Cycladic in the way people imagine the Cyclades, with marble quarries that supplied the ancient world and a working town behind the beaches.
Pelion (Makrinitsa)
Stone villages with slate roofs on a wooded mountain that drops to beaches on both sides.
Thessaloniki
Greece's second city: Byzantine, Ottoman and Sephardic layers, and the country's most confident food.
Zagori (Monodendri)
Forty-six stone villages in the Pindus mountains, linked by packhorse bridges over the deepest gorge in the world by ratio.
Alghero, Sardinia
A Catalan-speaking walled port on Sardinia's northwest coast, with sea caves and Bronze Age towers inland.
Bellagio & Lake Como
A village on the point where the lake divides, with villa gardens on both arms and ferries between them.
Bologna
Forty kilometres of porticoes, the oldest university in the world, and the best eating in Italy.
Florence
A banking city that funded the Renaissance and kept nearly all of it inside a twenty-minute walk.
Lecce
Baroque carved in soft golden limestone, in the heel of Italy, an hour from two seas.
Lucca
An intact Renaissance wall, four kilometres round, wide enough on top to be a park, with a Roman amphitheatre turned into a square inside it.
Matera
Cave dwellings inhabited for nine thousand years, evacuated in 1952 as a national disgrace, now a UNESCO site.
Milan
Italy's working city: fashion, design, finance, and a Last Supper that has to be booked months ahead.
Naples
Loud, dense, Greek in origin, with the best pizza and the best archaeological museum in the world.
Ortisei & the Dolomites
Pale limestone towers over alpine meadows, in a valley where Ladin is still the first language.
Palermo
Norman, Arab and Byzantine in the same building, with the best street food in Italy underneath.
Rome
A city where an insurance office sits on a temple and nobody comments, with the best street-level food in Italy.
Siena
A medieval city that lost to Florence and was preserved by losing, arranged around a shell-shaped square.
Syracuse & Ortigia
Once the most powerful Greek city in the world, now an island old town with a Doric temple inside the cathedral.
Trieste
Austro-Hungarian, Italian, Slovene and Jewish at once, on a limestone edge above the Adriatic, with the best coffee culture in Italy.
Turin
The first capital of Italy: baroque arcades, an Egyptian museum second only to Cairo's, and vermouth invented in a bar here.
Vernazza & the Cinque Terre
Five fishing villages on a cliff coast, joined by terraced footpaths and a railway in a tunnel.
Victoria, Gozo
A citadel town in the middle of an island where the pace drops noticeably the moment the ferry docks.
Lagos & the Algarve
Golden cliffs, sea caves and the harbour that launched the age of exploration — and, less proudly, Europe's first slave market.
Lisbon
A tiled, hilly, sea-facing capital rebuilt on a grid after the 1755 earthquake, with trams that still climb the old parts.
Pinhão & the Douro valley
Terraced schist vineyards falling into a dammed river, worked by hand because machines cannot stand up on them.
Porto
Steep, granite and blue-tiled, with port lodges across the river and an ocean at the end of the tram line.
Évora
A walled town with a Roman temple in the middle, a chapel of bones, and megaliths in the fields around it.
Barcelona
A Roman city inside a medieval city inside a 19th-century grid, with Gaudí's work scattered across all three.
Bilbao
A steel city that commissioned one building in 1997 and changed what cities thought was possible.
Ciutadella, Menorca
Menorca's old capital: a sandstone harbour town on an island that is a UNESCO biosphere reserve and mostly farmland.
Cáceres
A walled old town of Moorish towers and conquistador palaces, with storks nesting on most of them.
Cádiz
Possibly the oldest continuously inhabited city in western Europe, on a spit, surrounded by water on three sides.
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.
Granada
The last Moorish city in Spain, under the Sierra Nevada, with the Alhambra above it.
Madrid
A high plateau capital with three of the world's great galleries in one kilometre and a nightlife that starts at midnight.
Málaga
A port that spent a decade turning itself into a museum city, with Picasso's birthplace and a Moorish fortress above.
Palma de Mallorca
A cathedral with a Gaudí interior on the harbour, and the Tramuntana mountains behind it for the other three seasons.
Picos de Europa (Cangas de Onís)
Limestone peaks twenty kilometres from the sea, with a cable car, gorges and blue cheese aged in caves.
Ribeira Sacra
Vineyards on canyon walls above the Sil, worked from boats and by hand, with Romanesque monasteries in the woods.
San Sebastián
A shell-shaped bay, a belle époque town, and more Michelin stars per head than anywhere on earth.
Santiago de Compostela
The end of the Camino: a granite city that rains constantly and fills each afternoon with people who have walked there.
Segovia
A Roman aqueduct of 167 arches, built without mortar, running straight through the middle of a working town.
Seville
Orange trees, the world's largest gothic cathedral, and flamenco that belongs to specific families.
Valencia
A river turned into a nine-kilometre park, a gothic silk exchange, and the actual home of paella.
Zaragoza
Roman, Moorish, Christian and industrial in the same city, with a basilica the size of a cathedral on the Ebro.
The Adriatic & Balkans24
Gjirokastër
A UNESCO-listed Ottoman town of stone-roofed tower houses on a steep hillside under a castle.
Himarë & the Riviera
Ionian villages between mountain and sea, with beaches that were empty ten years ago and are filling fast.
Tirana
A capital whose mayor painted the grey communist blocks in primary colours, and where a nuclear bunker is now a museum.
Sarajevo
An Ottoman bazaar at one end of a street and Habsburg apartment blocks at the other, in a valley ringed by mountains.
Travnik
The Ottoman viziers' capital for 150 years, under a fortress, with a coloured mosque and a spring beneath it.
Bansko
A stone-built mountain town under Pirin, with cheap skiing in winter and hut-to-hut walking in summer.
Plovdiv
One of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited cities, on six hills, with a Roman theatre still in use.
Sofia
A capital with Roman ruins under the metro stations and a mountain at the end of the tram line.
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.
Split
A Roman emperor's retirement palace that became a town — people live inside the walls and always have.
Vis
The furthest inhabited Dalmatian island, closed to foreigners as a military base until 1989 and undeveloped because of it.
Zagreb
A central European capital of coffee terraces and museums, with almost nothing Mediterranean about it.
Pristina
A capital of cafés, brutalist landmarks and a median age under thirty.
Prizren
A river town of mosques, Orthodox churches and a stone bridge, under a fortress with the whole valley below it.
Bitola
A former consular city with a wide pedestrian avenue, and the Roman ruins of Heraclea on its edge.
Skopje
A capital with the largest Ottoman bazaar in the Balkans on one bank and a marble-clad neoclassical rebuild on the other.
Brașov
A Saxon town under a wooded mountain, with the largest gothic church between Vienna and Istanbul.
Bucharest
Belle Époque boulevards, communist megastructures, and the second-largest administrative building on earth.
Săpânța & Maramureș
Wooden churches with tall shingled spires, and a cemetery where every headstone is painted, rhymed and often rude.
Tulcea & the Danube Delta
The gateway to 5,800 square kilometres of reed, channel and lake, with 300 bird species and villages reachable only by boat.
Viscri
A single-street Saxon village with a fortified church, horses on the road, and no through traffic.
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.
Eastern Europe2
Chișinău
A green, low-rise capital of parks and Soviet-era planning, with the wine country immediately outside it.
Lviv
An Austro-Hungarian city with an intact centre on the UNESCO list, a coffee tradition and a chocolate one.
The Caucasus & the Bosphorus7
Yerevan
A capital rebuilt in pink volcanic stone to a 1924 plan, with Ararat filling the southern horizon.
Baku
A UNESCO-listed walled city with a mysterious stone tower, ringed by oil-boom mansions and three flame-shaped skyscrapers.
Sheki
A silk road town under wooded mountains, with a khan's summer palace whose windows are built without glue or nails.
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.
Istanbul
Capital of two empires, on two continents, with a 1,500-year-old church-mosque at the centre of it.
Selçuk & Ephesus
A market town beside one of the best-preserved classical cities in the Mediterranean.
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