Most visitors to Munich spend their money in beer halls and their time on Marienplatz. A few hundred metres away, the Residenz, the old palace of the Wittelsbach dukes and kings, holds one of the most extraordinary rooms in Germany, and it's rarely busy.
Every visitor to Madrid ends up in the Plaza Mayor at some point, usually more than once. It's ten minutes from the Puerta del Sol, enclosed on all…
Plovdiv calls itself one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe, and it has the layers to back it up. Thracian fort, Roman city…
Salamanca is the best day trip from Madrid that most people don't take. A direct Alvia train from Madrid-Chamartín gets there in about an hour and…
Wawel Hill was the seat of Polish kings for five centuries, and in 2025 it had its busiest year ever. About 3.4 million people visited, up nearly…
There's an Egyptian temple in a Madrid park, and it costs nothing to see. The Temple of Debod stands in the Parque del Oeste, a few minutes' walk…
On August 10 1628 the warship Vasa left Stockholm on her maiden voyage, heeled over in a gust and sank about 1,300 metres from where she started. She…
