Charles Bridge over the Vltava river with Prague Castle at sunset
The English field guide to Europe

Europe, done properly.

Clear picks, honest prices and skip-the-line tickets for the continent's best attractions, tours and day trips – booked in minutes, country by country.

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The field guide so far

115 guides · 11 countries

What to book

Everything worth your time

Every guide falls into one of four categories – start with the flagship Kraków guides, then switch city from the list above.

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PolandKrakówRoyal Old Town, Wawel Castle, and easy trips to Wieliczka and Auschwitz.10 experiencesPolandWarsawEurope's tallest observation deck, a rebuilt Old Town, and grand wartime history.14 experiencesPolandGdańskA Hanseatic old town, a modern-history landmark, and Baltic day trips.8 experiencesPolandWrocławColourful Old Town, hundreds of bronze dwarves, and day trips into the mountains.8 experiencesPolandZakopanePoland's mountain resort, gateway to the Tatras and thermal baths.6 experiencesCzech RepublicPragueThe largest ancient castle complex on earth, a 600-year-old working clock, and enough day trips beyond the city to fill a week.13 experiencesSloveniaLjubljanaA small, walkable capital surrounded by a cave with its own train, one of Europe's most photographed lakes, and a Venetian town on the Adriatic.8 experiencesCroatiaSplitA Roman emperor's retirement palace that became a city, within day-trip range of Croatia's best waterfalls and its most famous walled city.6 experiencesCroatiaDubrovnikA medieval walled city that survived earthquakes, a real siege, and centuries of Ottoman pressure without ever being taken.1 experienceCroatiaZagrebCroatia's capital, built from two medieval hilltop towns that only merged in 1850 – and the closest big city to both Plitvice Lakes and Slovenia.6 experiencesAlbaniaTiranaAlbania's capital, more a launchpad for a UNESCO hillside town, an alpine reservoir and turquoise coastline than a destination in itself.4 experiencesMontenegroKotorA walled Old Town on a bay dramatic enough to be mistaken for a fjord, with a Cold War submarine base hidden along its shore.7 experiencesLithuaniaVilniusA baroque Old Town founded by a Grand Duke, an island castle 28km away, and a KGB prison hidden behind an ordinary office facade.5 experiencesLatviaRigaA church tower rebuilt twice, a market built inside World War I airship hangars, and a Stalin-era skyscraper Latvians nicknamed "the birthday cake."6 experiencesBosnia And HerzegovinaMostarA single rebuilt bridge and the karst rivers, waterfalls and pilgrimage sites within an hour of it.5 experiencesNorth MacedoniaOhridA 10th-century fortress, a church balanced on a cliff, and a lake old enough to have grown its own species.5 experiencesSerbiaBelgradeA fortress where two rivers meet, one of the world's largest Orthodox churches, and a fast train north to Serbia's second city.3 experiences

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