8 Best Travelling Cities in Europe - 1

Cities are preferred by most of the tourists who visit Europe

London, UK

Culture and history of Europe has always been an attraction for tourists who are visiting the continent, the legacy of the past were able to make tourists feel impressed.

Admittedly many interesting stories behind the various works great there. Thus options open, citing articles on travel sites, KompasTravel, wrote that it is often found that travelers are confused in choosing which cities to comes first.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Tourist destinations of food and culinary revolutionary, dozens of Michelin star-winning restaurant. You can try Noma, a restaurant that is touted as the best restaurant in the world, even many former chef who opened the place to eat for their own creations.

You can try the typical cuisine of Denmark as a sandwich with one hand, known as smørrebrød, bread with cold beef, smoked fish, cheese, and served on wheat bread.

Many other interesting things in this country, a country with the third highest happiness indicators in the world based on the "World Happiness Report 2015", environmentally friendly cycling. Even tourists can rent a bicycle and explore the city.

Barcelona, Spain

Enjoy the magnificent work of Anton Gaudi, Catalan architect, the legendary Sagrada Familia is still under construction. Gaudi's more to be seen is La Pedrera, Casa Batllo and Park Guell.

There are still many other works of art with a collection of more than three hundred paintings and sculptures made in surrealist artists such as Catalan-style art in the museum Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, and visit the Fundacio Joan Miro.

Spain culinary is incredible, you can try the tapas tavern and enjoy the pintxos, bite-sized snacks. Then, the moment of unique midnight meal, because the dinner at 8:30 pm it was deemed too early for the locals.

Seafood dish is one of the mainstay of the menu, with a selection of condiments that can be bought from Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueira, or better known as La Boqueira, traditional market that seemed to hold the visitors out of the market on an empty stomach.

London, England

The city is filled with history, culture, art, and all things are “free”, museums and points of interest are free, including the most popular one such as the British Museum (with a large collection of which must be seen as the Rosetta Stone, sculpture of the Parthenon, and some mummies of Ancient Egypt Gallery session).

You can visit the National Gallery, Natural History Museum, Tate Modern, and the ceremonial of changing of the guard outside Buckingham Palace. Other free tourist attractions are the town parks, including the famous Hyde Park (filled with rose gardens and lakes), as well as Richmond Park.

But. Attractions that are worth a visit and travelers are obliged to pay, among others, is the Tower of London. It provides an opportunity to see the Crown Jewels and artificial graffiti of tower prisoners from five hundred years ago. Regions of interest around, the River of Thames, a replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theater, featuring a variety of performances between April to October.


Street of Paris, France

Paris, France

Fascinating city for tourists, interesting history of the writers and artists of Paris, rich in culture and has many museums filled with works of the best in the world. Famous figures, such as Monet, Degas, Van Gogh and Picasso, with their works in the famous museums such as the Musee de Orsay and Musee de l'Orangerie.

Centre Pompidou presents the contemporary works, such as a maze of tubes, or objects such as pipes that make the building itself. Legendary museum, Musee du Louvre, with tens of thousands of artworks, including works by Egyptian times and works of the Renaissance such as the Mona Lisa.

Fashion city so the travelers say, the presence of the haute couture work by the designers such as Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior. Rows of fashion houses, unique place to shop. Travelers still spoiled by the department store Le Bon Marche in the form of a collection of boutiques that stands alone. Then La Grande Epicerie de Paris, an ideal spot to shop for groceries for a picnic.

Even you can visit the Saint-Quen which became a compulsory if looking for antiques and old-fashioned.

Other cities are so favored by tourists in the world, still continued in the next article in the second part. Always lots of surprises await when tourists visit the main tourist cities in Europe.

Continued to Part 2.

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Source: J Adrian - KompasTravel, Smarter Travel
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