Mont-Saint-Michel had 2,793,985 visitors in 2025, up 3.1% on the year before. On the busiest days more than 30,000 people squeeze up one narrow street on a granite rock in the bay. The abbey at the top took about 1.62 million of them, up from 1.48 million in 2024.
Notre-Dame reopened on December 8 2024, five and a half years after the fire. In its first year it took in about 11 million visitors. Before 2019 the…
The 191st Oktoberfest ended last Sunday, October 4, after 16 days on the Theresienwiese. Munich's mayor Dominik Krause tapped the first keg at noon…
Mid-October in northern Portugal means smoke. The castanha carts come out, the little steam-engine roasters start puffing, and the smell of burnt…
Sintra is half an hour from Lisbon by train and it feels like every visitor to Lisbon goes there on the same day. The palaces run by Parques de…
Taormina was famous long before television found it. Goethe came through, D.H. Lawrence lived here, the Greek theatre has framed Etna for two…
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…
In May 2014 a city magazine took over half of an old market hall at Cais do Sodré and filled it with chefs. The other half stayed a working market…
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…
Venice ran its day-tripper fee for the third year in 2026, and by now it's simply part of the trip. Sixty paid days this year, up from 54 in 2025 and…
