European Journeys
Routes that cross borders on purpose.
17 routes, each a real sequence with real distances: every stop links back into the Atlas, and the nights add up to the days on the tin. Take one as written, or open it in the Planner and bend it to the time you actually have.
Every line above is one of the seventeen, drawn from its own stops. The continent stops at 52°E on the right, where this atlas's map data ends, not at a coast.
Midnight sun to hanseatic brick
Arctic to the Baltic
Tromsø · Lofoten (Svolvær) · Abisko · Stockholm · Helsinki · Tallinn · Riga
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
Venice to Dubrovnik the long way round
The Adriatic Run
Venice · Ljubljana · Piran · Rovinj · Split · Mostar · Kotor · Dubrovnik
Six places people have walked to for a thousand years
Camino & Sacred Europe
Canterbury · Chartres · Rome · Meteora (Kalambaka) · Santiago de Compostela
The medieval trading league, in order
The Hanseatic Arc
Bruges · Amsterdam · Lübeck · Gdańsk · Riga · Tallinn
Greek and Roman cities, on both shores
The Classical Mediterranean
Rome · Naples · Palermo · Syracuse & Ortigia · Athens · Selçuk & Ephesus
London to Budapest by rail
The European Heritage Route
London · Canterbury · Bruges · Amsterdam · Cologne · Prague · Vienna · Budapest
Barcelona to Athens along one sea
The Mediterranean Arc
Barcelona · Nice · Vernazza & the Cinque Terre · Rome · Naples · Syracuse & Ortigia · Corfu · Athens
Four capitals and a sea
The Baltic Crossing
Helsinki · Tallinn · Riga · Vilnius · Trakai
Four countries down one river
The Danube Line
Dürnstein & the Wachau · Vienna · Bratislava · Budapest · Novi Sad · Belgrade
Two countries, one peninsula, no flights
The Iberian Circle
Porto · Lisbon · Évora · Seville · Granada · Valencia · Barcelona · Madrid
Mountains, monasteries and very few visitors
The Carpathian Arc
Kraków · Zakopane & the Tatras · Poprad & the High Tatras · Levoča & the Spiš · Sighișoara · Viscri · Brașov · Gura Humorului & the painted monasteries
Winter, treated as the reason rather than the problem
The Cold North
Helsinki · Rovaniemi · Inari · Tromsø · Abisko · Kiruna
Andalusia and the Maghreb's long shadow
The White South
Seville · Córdoba · Granada · Ronda · Cádiz · Málaga
The full length of Europe, 69°N to 38°N
Arctic to Mediterranean
Tromsø · Lofoten (Svolvær) · Abisko · Stockholm · Copenhagen · Hamburg · Berlin · Vienna · Ortisei & the Dolomites · Venice · Rome · Naples · Athens
The shape beside each route is where it goes, drawn on the same projection as every other map here. Drawn from Natural Earth 1:110m admin 0 countries, public domain. Every stop above is a place in the Atlas, in the order the route takes it. The line under each is that journey's own legs end to end — its share of the whole distance, so the shape is the trip's rhythm rather than a comparison between trips. Distances are straight lines between coordinates; what they mean on the ground is on the journey's own page.