What is the best country to visit in Europe?
Twenty-five countries on one continent, and no two travellers weigh cities, coastline and cost the same way. Your order will not match the person next to you.
1ItalyRome, Florence and Venice, plus the food most travellers rank first.1000pts
2SloveniaLake Bled, the Julian Alps and a short Adriatic coast.619pts
3GreeceClassical ruins on the mainland and roughly two hundred inhabited islands.563pts
4HungaryBudapest's thermal baths and the Danube bend.523pts
5TurkeyIstanbul astride two continents, Cappadocia and the Aegean coast.523pts
6ScotlandEdinburgh, the Highlands and the western islands.486pts
7GermanyBerlin's museums, Bavarian castles and the Rhine valley.479pts
8BelgiumMedieval Bruges and Ghent, plus Brussels and the beer tradition.479pts
9FranceParis, the Loire chateaux, Provence and the alpine south.428pts
10FinlandLakeland summers, Helsinki design and Lapland winters.428pts
11NorwayThe western fjords, Lofoten and the midnight sun.371pts
12MontenegroThe Bay of Kotor and mountains rising straight off the Adriatic.371pts
13PolandKrakow's old town, Gdansk on the Baltic and the Tatra mountains.371pts
14AustriaImperial Vienna, Salzburg and the Tyrolean Alps.371pts
15NetherlandsAmsterdam's canal ring, cycling country and the spring bulb fields.371pts
16EnglandLondon, the Cotswolds, the Lake District and the Cornish coast.371pts
17DenmarkCopenhagen's design and food scene and a coastline of small islands.371pts
18SwitzerlandAlpine railways, lakes and some of the continent's steepest scenery.371pts
19IcelandVolcanoes, glaciers, waterfalls and the northern lights.306pts
20SwedenStockholm on its archipelago, plus Lapland in the far north.231pts
21CroatiaThe Dalmatian coast, walled Dubrovnik and the Plitvice lakes.143pts
22SpainAndalusian Moorish cities, Barcelona's modernism and a long coastline.143pts
23IrelandThe Atlantic cliffs, Dublin pubs and the Wild Atlantic Way.143pts
24PortugalLisbon's hills, the Douro valley and the Algarve cliffs.143pts
25Czech RepublicPrague's old town plus Bohemian spa towns and castles.0pts
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