Germany is the richest and most populous country in Europe, an economic powerhouse at the heart of the continent whose gifts to the world range from the printing press and the Protestant Reformation to the automobile, Bach and Beethoven, and the Christmas market, and whose landscapes are as varied as a country that stretches from […]
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Hungary is a country of delicious goulash, world-famous thermal baths, and a magnificent capital city, Budapest, that is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful in Europe, the Danube dividing Buda’s castle-topped hills from Pest’s grand boulevards and ruin bars, the Hungarian Parliament building reflecting in the river at night, and the steaming waters […]
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Malta is a diving and history paradise, a tiny archipelago of three inhabited islands (Malta, Gozo, and Comino) in the middle of the Mediterranean whose extraordinarily clear waters, spectacular underwater limestone formations, and a density of historical sites that borders on the absurd (Malta has three UNESCO World heritage sites in a country smaller than […]
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Portugal is the romance of Europe’s western edge, a country of dramatic Atlantic coastlines, golden limestone beaches, medieval hilltop castles, and the melancholic strains of fado music drifting through the narrow alleyways of Lisbon’s Alfama district at midnight. Hemmed in on one side by Spain and on the other by the vast, empty Atlantic, Portugal […]
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Romania is the country of Dracula, and that is both its blessing and its curse. The legend of Vlad the Impaler and Bram Stoker’s fictional vampire has given Romania one of the most recognisable tourist brands in the world (Bran Castle, marketed as Dracula’s Castle, draws over 800,000 visitors a year), but it has also […]
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Slovakia is a Little Big Country, the self-deprecating national motto, that packs the soaring peaks of the High Tatras, one of the highest concentrations of castles per capita in the world, a remarkable seven UNESCO World heritage sites, and some of Europe’s most beautiful accessible cave systems into a country barely the size of South […]
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Slovenia is a small country with great nature, a green jewel tucked between the Alps, the Mediterranean, and the Pannonian Plain that crams an extraordinary diversity of landscapes into an area smaller than Wales: Alpine peaks (the Julian Alps and Triglav, the national symbol), turquoise rivers (the Soča, arguably the most beautiful river in Europe), […]
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Spain is one of the most diverse and exciting countries in Europe, a sun-blessed Iberian nation whose regional identities (Catalan, Basque, Galician, Andalusian, and more) are as distinct as separate countries, whose cultural contributions range from Gaudí’s Sagrada Família to Picasso’s Guernica to the fiery flamenco of Seville, and whose landscapes encompass the snow-capped Sierra […]
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Italy is quite simply one of the greatest travel destinations on Earth, a country that packs more UNESCO World heritage sites (60), more artistic masterpieces, more culinary diversity, and more sheer geographic beauty into a single nation than any other on the planet. From the snow-capped Dolomites to the sun-baked beaches of Sicily, from the […]
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