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Trier - Germany's Oldest City with Nine UNESCO Monuments and the World's Second Largest Riesling Region

The Romans founded it 2,000 years ago, Karl Marx was born here, and today every town on the Moselle is...

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Gandia - the Valencian Town With the Borgia Palace, the Birthplace of a Saint, and Fideua From 1920

80 kilometres from Valencia, without the Benidorm-style tourist chaos. 80,000 residents in winter, 180,000 in summer - and everyone knows...

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Vila do Conde - the Portuguese Town With an Underground Michelin and a Convent Turned Hotel, 40 Minutes From Porto

A coastal town with a medieval character, an aqueduct running along the streets and Europe's only tea plantation. All 40...

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Provins - the Medieval Town 90 Minutes From Paris That Missed Both the Industrial Revolution and the Tour Buses

The Caesar Tower is unique in France, octagonal donjon, tunnels carved into limestone that Umberto Eco wrote about in Foucault's...

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Canterbury - the medieval English town where Thomas Becket was killed in the cathedral in 1170, and where today you punt down the river

80 minutes by train from London, UNESCO World Heritage, an active 11th-century cathedral, punts on the Stour since the 19th....

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Salobreña - the Town Between the Sea and the Sierra Nevada Where Sultans Played Chess to Save Their Lives, and a Nasrid Mansion With Roman Heating Is Now Emerging From the Ground

A white town in Granada province, a fortress 73 metres above the sea, and a story from the 10th century...

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Lindoso - the Portuguese village with the most horreos on the Iberian Peninsula, a 1258 medieval fortress and a farming relic from two centuries ago

Tucked between the rocks of Peneda-Gerês National Park, the village of 1,300 has a higher concentration of stone grain stores...

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Côte Vermeille - 30 Kilometres of French Coast with Red Earth, Belgian Lace in Wine, and a Fortress Where Matisse Invented an Entire Art Movement

Tucked between Perpignan and the Spanish border. No big tourist roads, 6,000 kilometres of stone walls. And - according to...

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Quedlinburg - The Town of 1,200 Half-Timbered Houses Where a Nazi Tyrant Stole the Bones of the First German King

A UNESCO World Heritage site, a jewel in the middle of Germany, with a medieval crypt experts call the loveliest...

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Monzón in Aragon: the town where the Templars never left - and three days in May they bring them back

65 kilometers from Huesca, a medieval town runs a festival that hasn't stopped for 23 years. The knights, the lace,...

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Cannes Without the Red Carpet: the Old Town of Le Suquet, the Monastery Wine of Saint-Honorat and the Market from 1934

Once the stars leave, the city on the French Riviera turns out to be a great deal more than a...

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A Five-Day Luxury Cruise From Genoa to Rome - Jannik Sinner's Pick for a Quiet Mediterranean Weekend

Explora Journeys passes through Calanques, Saint-Tropez, Antibes and Monaco. A boutique hotel on water with a wellness programme developed with...

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