Explore Europe's Most Beautiful Destinations

Algarve

Portugal's golden southern coast, where dramatic limestone cliffs meet long Atlantic beaches and whitewashed fishing villages.

Amalfi Coast

The Amalfi Coast is thirteen kilometres of vertical drama — a UNESCO World Heritage coastline where lemon groves and bougainvillea spill down cliff faces to fis

Antibes & Cap d'Antibes

Antibes sits between Nice and Cannes on a headland that juts into the Mediterranean, giving it views in both directions along the coast. The old town — one of t

Cannes & Lérins

Cannes is simultaneously one of the most glamorous and most approachable towns on the Riviera — a city that hosts the world's most famous film festival for two

Capri

Capri is a limestone island four kilometres off the Sorrentine Peninsula, rising dramatically from the sea to a plateau of gardens, villas, and extraordinary vi

Carvoeiro & Central Algarve

The central Algarve between Portimão and Faro contains the highest concentration of resort development on the coast, but also some of its most beautiful beaches

Corfu & Ionian Islands

The Ionian Islands are geographically and culturally distinct from the Aegean — greener, wetter, and shaped by centuries of Venetian, French, and British rule t

Costa del Golf

The stretch of coast between Estepona and Sotogrande, west of Marbella, contains the greatest concentration of golf courses in continental Europe — over 70 cour

Costa del Sol

The Costa del Sol stretches along Andalucía's southern Mediterranean coast, where whitewashed hilltop villages tumble down to golden beaches. Beyond the sun-and

Costa Tropical

The Costa Tropical, east of Málaga towards the border with Granada province, is the most underrated stretch of the Andalusian coast — a coastline of dramatic cl

Crete

Crete is Greece's largest island and its most complex — a place large enough to contain an entire country's worth of landscape, history, and regional culture. T

Dalmatia

Croatia's Adriatic jewel — ancient walled cities, island-dotted waters, and some of the clearest sea in Europe.

Dubrovnik Riviera

Dubrovnik is one of the best-preserved medieval cities in Europe — a walled city of limestone streets, Baroque churches, and Renaissance palaces built on a rock

Faro & East Algarve

The eastern Algarve is the quietest and most authentically Portuguese part of the coast — a low-lying landscape of lagoon islands, salt pans, and fishing towns

Formentera

Formentera is the smallest and most remote of the main Balearic islands — a flat, pine-covered island twenty minutes by fast ferry from Ibiza, with no airport,

Greek Islands

Hvar & Brač

Hvar is the most celebrated island on the Dalmatian coast — a long, thin island of lavender fields, medieval towns, and extraordinary beaches that has become on

Ibiza

Ibiza is two islands in one — the electronic music capital of the world, where the summer club season runs from June through September with an intensity that ha

Korčula & Pelješac

Korčula is a densely forested island of medieval stone towns, excellent wine, and a quietness that distinguishes it from its more famous neighbour Hvar. The old

La Axarquía

La Axarquía is the mountainous comarca immediately east of Málaga — a landscape of steep valleys, Moorish villages, and terraced hillsides of olive, almond, and

Lagos & West Algarve

Lagos is the finest town on the Algarve coast — a working port with a genuine old quarter, extraordinary limestone cliffs immediately to the south, and a beach

Mallorca & Balearics

Marbella & Golden Mile

Marbella is the Costa del Sol at its most sophisticated — a resort town that has successfully positioned itself at the luxury end of European beach tourism whil

Menorca

Menorca is the Balearic island that got away — a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of extraordinary beaches, prehistoric monuments, and a quietly sophisticated local cul

Monaco & Menton

Monaco and Menton occupy opposite ends of the same short stretch of coast near the Italian border, and they could not be more different. Monaco is the principal

Mykonos & Delos

Mykonos is the most cosmopolitan island in Greece — a small Cycladic island of extraordinary beauty that has become one of the Mediterranean's premier party des

Naples & Pompeii

Naples is the loudest, most chaotic, most brilliantly alive city in Italy — a place of extraordinary art, world-defining food, and a street energy that overwhel

Nerja & East Coast

The eastern Costa del Sol between Málaga and Nerja is the most dramatic stretch of the coast — where the mountains of the Sierra Nevada reach almost to the sea

Nice & Côte d'Azur

Nice is the undisputed capital of the French Riviera — a city of 340,000 with the energy of a metropolis and the light of the Mediterranean. The old town, with

Palma & Southwest

Palma is the finest city in the Balearics and one of the most underrated in the Mediterranean — a city of 400,000 with a Gothic cathedral of extraordinary ambit

Portofino & Rapallo

Portofino is one of the Mediterranean's most glamorous harbours — a tiny village of painted houses, luxury yachts, and excellent seafood that has attracted arti

Positano & Ravello

Positano is the defining image of the Amalfi Coast — a cascade of pastel houses tumbling down a cliffside to a small beach, with bougainvillea everywhere and th

Rhodes & Dodecanese

Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese islands and one of the most historically layered destinations in the Mediterranean — a city whose old town was built by

Sagres & Costa Vicentina

Sagres occupies the southwestern corner of continental Europe — a dramatic headland of flat-topped cliffs above the open Atlantic where Prince Henry the Navigat

Saint-Tropez

Saint-Tropez occupies a unique position in the mythology of the French Riviera — a genuine fishing village that became the global symbol of Mediterranean summer

Sanremo & Liguria

The western Ligurian coast runs from the French border to Genoa, encompassing the belle époque resort town of Sanremo, the ancient port city of Genoa, and the f

Santa Margherita

Santa Margherita Ligure sits at the head of the Gulf of Tigullio, sheltered by hills and blessed with a calm harbour. Less flashy than Portofino, it has long be

Santorini & Cyclades

Santorini is the most dramatic island in the Mediterranean — a volcanic caldera with whitewashed villages perched on the rim above a flooded crater, the whole t

Serra de Tramuntana

The Serra de Tramuntana is the mountain spine of Mallorca — a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of limestone peaks, terraced olive groves, and stone villages that

Sorrento Peninsula

The Sorrento Peninsula juts into the Bay of Naples between the Amalfi Coast and the city, a ridge of limestone above terraced lemon groves and fishing villages

Split & Central Dalmatia

Split is one of the great cities of the Mediterranean — a living Roman palace turned into a medieval city turned into a modern Croatian metropolis, all stacked

Zadar Archipelago

The Zadar Archipelago is the most complex island landscape on the Dalmatian coast — a scatter of over 200 islands, islets, and reefs stretching north from Zadar

Slovenian Alps

The Slovenian Alps are the Alps' best-kept secret — a country-sized mountain playground where the scenery rivals anything in Switzerland or Austria at a fractio

Aix-en-Provence

Aix-en-Provence is the most civilised city in Provence — a university town of elegant 17th and 18th century architecture, excellent food markets, and a pace of

Alpilles & Les Baux

The Alpilles are a compact range of white limestone hills rising from the Provençal plain between Arles and Avignon — small in scale but extraordinary in charac

Andalusia

Avignon & Arles

Avignon and Arles are the two great historic cities of Provence — the former a walled papal city of extraordinary preservation, the latter a Roman city that has

Basque Country

A fiercely proud region straddling Spain and France, celebrated for the world's finest food culture and wild Atlantic surf.

Bilbao & Getxo

Bilbao is the Basque Country's largest city and its industrial heart — a formerly gritty port city that reinvented itself through architecture and culture in th

Chianti

Chianti is the wine landscape that defines Tuscany in the imagination — a rolling terrain of vineyards, olive groves, and cypress trees between Florence and Sie

Florence & Fiesole

Florence is the greatest concentration of Renaissance art in the world — a city of 380,000 that contains more masterpieces per square kilometre than any other p

French Basque Coast

The French Basque coast runs from the Spanish border to the Landes pine forests, encompassing Biarritz — the original European surf resort, where the sport arri

Granada & Sierra Nevada

Granada is the city of the Alhambra — the Nasrid palace complex above the city that is the finest example of Islamic architecture in Europe and one of the most

Jerez & Sherry Triangle

Jerez de la Frontera is the capital of sherry — the fortified wine produced from Palomino grapes grown on the chalky albariza soils of the triangle between Jere

Luberon

The Luberon is a limestone massif rising from the Provençal plain between Apt and Manosque, its flanks covered in oak forest and its ridgeline dotted with hillt

Maremma Coast

The Maremma is Tuscany's wild coast — a landscape of pine forests, dunes, and lagoons stretching south from Livorno to the Lazio border, with an interior of vol

Rioja Alavesa

Rioja Alavesa is the Basque province of Álava's contribution to Spanish wine — a compact wine region immediately south of the Cantabrian mountains, sheltered fr

Ronda & White Villages

Ronda sits on a plateau divided by a 120-metre gorge, its old town connected to the new by an 18th-century bridge of extraordinary engineering above the vertigi

San Sebastián

San Sebastián is the most beautiful city in Spain and, depending on your priorities, the finest food city in the world. It sits on a perfect bay between two hea

Seville & Surrounds

Seville is the capital of Andalusia and one of the great cities of Europe — a city of flamenco, tapas, and extraordinary Moorish architecture that manages to be

Siena & Crete Senesi

Siena is Florence's great rival and, in many respects, its superior — a Gothic city of extraordinary unity and beauty built on three hills, its medieval street

Tuscany

Val d'Orcia

The Val d'Orcia is the most beautiful valley in Italy — a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of gentle hills, cypress-lined roads, and medieval hill towns that has

Verdon Gorge

The Gorges du Verdon is Europe's answer to the Grand Canyon — a limestone gorge 25 kilometres long and up to 700 metres deep, carved by the turquoise Verdon riv