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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSClimate map data adapted from Peel MC, Finlayson BL & McMahon TA (2007) ‘Updated World Map of the Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification’, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 11, 1633 -44.
THIS BOOKThis 1st edition of Lonely Planet’s Europe’s Best Trips guidebook was curated by Belinda Dixon and researched and written by Isabel Albiston, Oliver Berry, Stuart Butler, Kerry Christiani, Fionn Davenport, Belinda Dixon, Marc Di Duca, Peter Dragicevich, Duncan Garwood, Anthony Ham, Paula Hardy, Catherine Le Nevez, Sally O’Brien, Josephine Quintero, Daniel Robinson, Brendan Sainsbury, Andy Symington, Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Nicola Williams and Neil Wilson.
This guidebook was produced by the following:
Destination Editors Jo Cooke, Helen Elfer, Gemma Graham, Lorna Parkes, James Smart, Anna Tyler
Product Editor Tracy Whitmey
Senior Cartographer Valentina Kremenchutskaya
Book Designer Clara Monitto
Cover Researcher Naomi Parker
Thanks to Bridget Blair, Victoria Harrison, Monique Perrin, Kirsten Rawlings, Alison Ridgway, Luna Soo
BBacharach 487-8, 489Bad Karlshafen 512Badia a Passignano 58, 63Bains des Pâquis 542Ballaghbeama Gap 336Ballater 263-4, 269Ballycarbery Castle 333Ballycastle 343, 351Balmoral Castle 263Barafundle Bay 286Barcelona 384-5, 387, 442-3Bären Park 545Basilica di San Marco 33, 83Basilique du Sacré-Coeur
Cartier 181Chapelle du Rosaire 166Chartres 124-5, 130Château Comtal 147Château de Pau 155Château de Versailles 124châteaux (Loire) 13, 186-93Chepstow 214-15Cheverny 193Chinon 187, 193Chorherrenstift 574Christ Church
Cathedral 366Church Island 335Cirque de Gavarnie 147, 157Cité de l’Espace 147Clifden 304, 312Cliffs of Moher 304-7Cockermouth 254Col du Tourmalet 159Colline du Château 201Cologne 480-1, 522-3Colosseum 37, 76
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Comarés 392Como 47-9, 53Conciergerie 199Coniston 256-7, 259Cork City 324, 327Corniche de l’Estérel 166Costa del Sol 389-97Coutances 140Covarrubias 422-3Craigendarroch 263Cramant 181-2Cremona 40Cromane Peninsula 332Crummock Water 254
Dda Vinci, Leonardo 32, 191Danube cruises 574Danube River 569-75Dartmoor National
Park 224, 233D-Day beaches 133-41Delta de L’Erbe 381Derry 345, 351Derrynane National Historic
Park 310-11Derwentwater 253Dingle 308, 313, 322, 327Dinkelsbühl 495, 502Disentis Abbey 532Doctor Who Experience 214Doe Castle 348-9Dog Falls 276Dom St Kilian 492Dom St Petri 514Dom zu Fulda 508Donauwörth 497-8Doolin 322, 360, 361Douro Valley 449-57Dove Cottage 250Downings 351Drumnadrochit 275-6Dublin 302, 312, 316-17, 326,
Great Glen 271-7Greve in Chianti 58griffon vultures 156Grimmwelt 509Grindelwald 533, 535-6Grizedale Forest 258Grossglockner High Alpine
Road 562-3Grossmünster 548Grotte de Niaux 160
HHadrian’s Wall 229-30Hamelin 513, 517Hanau 506, 507Hanover 513-14Harburg 495-6Hardknott Pass 255-6Haro 430-1Harry Potter movies 273Hautvillers 178Hawkshead 257-8, 259Haystacks 254Healy Pass 324Heiligtum der Isis und Mater
Magna 488Herrenhäuser Gärten 513Highland Folk
Museum 265-7Highland games 263Highland Wildlife Park 265highlights 8-9, 10-19Hill Top 256Historisches Museum
Schloss Philippsruhe 506history 21Hofburg 578Hohes Schloss 500Honister Pass 254Horn Head 319, 349Hunsrückbahn 485Hyde Park 209
IIgreja de São Lourenço de
Matos 467Île de Ré 146Imperia 105Inisfallen 338Inisheer 360, 361Inishmór 322, 327, 360, 361Iniskeel Island 350Innsbruck 565, 567Interlaken 544-5, 549
339Killarney National Park 337Killorglin 311, 332, 339King’s College Chapel 292Kingussie 265-7Kinlochleven 273, 277Kloster Disentis 532Knocknadobar 333Koblenz 482, 489Kölner Dom 481, 522Kolumba 523Krems an der Donau 574,
LLa Grande Corniche 167-9La Rioja 17, 427-35La Rochelle 145-6, 151Lacock 244Lago di Como 47Lago d’Orta 46Lago Maggiore 44Lagos 463, 469Laguardia 433-4, 435Lake District 247-59Lake District National
Park 229, 233Landgrafenschloss 508Landsberg am Lech 498Langdale Pikes 250Langeais 193Las Fallas de San José 385Last Supper, The 32Laugharne 282Lauterbrunnen 536-7Le Clos Lucé 191Le Mesnil-sur-Oger 182Leacanabuile 333Leaning Tower of Pisa 79Leeds Castle 237-8Lentos 572L’Entroterra 106León 407-8, 413Les Arènes (Arles) 149Les Forges de Pyrène 160Les Langeais 187-8Lienz 562Linz 572, 575Lisdoonvarna 359Loch Affric 276Loch Garten 265Loch Linnhe 273Loch Lomond 230-1Loch Morlich 264Loch Ness 274-6Loches 189Logroño 405, 412, 429, 430
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Loire Valley 13, 185-93London 208-10, 219, 237Longues-sur-Mer 137Lorelei Sculpture 486Loreley 486Lucerne 547, 549Lyme Regis 223-4Lyon 131
PPadua 32-3, 82-3Palais des Nations 542-3Palatino 76Palazzo Ducale 84Palazzo Vecchio 79Palermo 91, 98Pamplona 402-3, 412Pantheon (Rome) 37, 77-8, 112Panthéon (Paris) 199Panzano in Chianti 58-9Paris 12, 122-3, 130, 198-9Parkmill 282-3Pass of Glencoe 272-3Passau 570-1, 575Pau 155-6, 161Peak District National
Park 228, 233Pembroke 287, 289Peñafiel 422, 425perfume 170Peso da Régua 452, 457Petit Train d’Artouste 156Pfalzgrafstein 487Phare de Verzenay 178Pic du Midi 159Picasso, Pablo 377Pinhão 453, 457Pisa 79-81, 87Place de la Concorde 198Plaza Mayor 440Pointe du Hoc 140Pompeii 38Ponferrada 409-10Pont Neuf 198 Ponte Vecchio 115
Portuguese language 472-3Positano 68, 73Potter, Beatrix 253, 256, 257Praia da Arrifana 462Praia da Falésia 466Praia da Rocha 465-6Praia de Vale Figueira 462-3Praiano 69Promenade des Anglais 150,
167, 200Puebla de Sanabria 419Puente la Reina 403Pyrenees 153-61
QQuinta do Crasto 453Quinta do Vallado 452-3Quinta Nova 453
RRagusa 93Rappenlochschlucht 566Rathlin Island 343Rathmelton 348, 351Rathmullan 348Ravello 71-2, 73Reims 176-8, 183reindeers 264Remagen 482Rhine cruises 487Rhine Valley 19, 479-89Rhossili 283, 289Ring of Kerry 323, 329-39Roe Valley 345Roman Forum 77Romantic Road 491-503Rome 37, 41, 76-8, 86, 112-13Roncesvalles 401-2Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
169-70Ross Castle 338Rossbeigh Strand 332-3Rothenburg ob der Tauber
494-5, 502Roundstone 304Rüdesheim 488, 489Rue St-François de Paule 200Rydal Mount 250Rye 238
SSagres 463, 469Sahagún 407Salamanca 418-19, 424Salisbury 211, 242, 245Salzburg 561-2Samos 410San Gimignano 78San Millán de Cogolla 429San Remo 105-6, 107Santa María de Eunate 403
Venice 33-5, 40, 83-4, 87Ventimiglia 106, 107Verbania 46, 53Verkehrshaus 547Verona 82Versailles 124Verzenay 178Verzy 178via ferrata 273Viana 405Vico Equense 67Vienna 574, 575, 578-9Vietri sul Mare 72Vieux Nice 200-1views 20Vila Nova de Foz Côa 456Vila Nova de Milfontes 461Villa Romana del Casale 93Villafranca del Bierzo 410Villandry 188Vinothèque 487-8Viterbo 36-7
WWade, General George 274Wade’s Bridge 268Wales 279-89
Walk of the Gods 69walks 198-9, 200-1Wasdale 254waterfalls 248, 273Waterville 335-6, 339Weikersheim 494Weinhaus Heilig Grab 485Werfen 562, 567Westminster Abbey 208Westport 319-21Whinlatter Forest Park 254whisky 268White Park Bay 318Whitesands Bay 288Wieskirche 499-500Wilhelmshöhe 509-10, 516Willibaldsburg 498Willy Wonka 495Winchester 211, 239-40, 245Windermere 248Windsurfcenter Zell Am
See 563wine 15, 21, 59, 536wine tours 55-63, 174-83,
426-35, 448-57Wordsworth, William 250,
254
Worms Head 283Wrynose Pass 255-6Würzburg 492-3, 502
XXàtiva 381-2
YYork 217-18, 219Yorkshire Dales National
Park 228
ZZambujeira do Mar 461, 469Zamora 419, 424-5Zell am See 563Zell am Ziller 563, 565, 567Zentrum Paul Klee 545Zermatt 538Zumdorf 532Zum Grünen Baum 487Zürich 548, 549Zytglogge 545
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Read more about Nicola at: https://auth. lonelyplanet.com/profiles/nicolawilliams
NICOLA WILLIAMS
British writer Nicola Williams has lived in France and written about it for more than a decade. From her hillside house on the southern shore of Lake Geneva, road trips beckon to Provence, Paris, the Dordogne and onwards to the Atlantic Coast where she has spent endless years revelling in its extraordinary landscapes, architecture and seafaring cuisine. Nicola has worked on numerous Lonely Planet titles, including Discover France and Paris. Find her on Twitter and Instagram at @Tripalong.
Read more about Neil at https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/neilwilson
NEIL WILSON
Neil was born in Scotland and has lived there most of his life. Based in Perthshire, he has been a full-time writer since 1988, working on more than 80 guidebooks, including the Lonely Planet guides to Scotland, England, Ireland and Prague. An outdoors enthusiast since childhood, Neil is an active hill-walker, mountain-biker, sailor, snowboarder, fly-fisher and rock-climber, and has climbed and tramped in four continents, including ascents of Jebel Toubkal in Morocco, Mount Kinabalu in Borneo and the Old Man of Hoy in the Orkney Islands.
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BRENDAN SAINSBURY
Originally from Hampshire, England, Brendan first went to Spain on an Inter-rail ticket in the 1980s. He went back as a travel guide several years later and met his wife-to-be in a small village in rural Andalucía in 2003. He has been writing books for Lonely Planet for a decade, including four previous editions of the Spain and Andalucía guides. Brendan loves Granada, the writing of Federico Lorca, cycling along via verdes, and attending as many flamenco shows as his research allows.
ANDY SYMINGTON
Though he hails from Australia, Andy’s great-grandfather emigrated to Portugal in the 19th century and that side of his family still calls the country home. This connection means that he has been a frequent visitor to the country since birth, and now nips across the border very frequently from his home in Spain. Andy has authored and co-authored numerous Lonely Planet and other guidebooks.
DANIEL ROBINSON
Co-author (with Tony Wheeler) of Lonely Planet’s first Paris guide, Daniel has been writing about France for over 25 years. Passionate about history, he is always moved by the grand châteaux of the Loire, the sombre cemeteries of the Somme, and the dramatic and tragic events that both embody. Daniel’s travel writing has appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic Traveler and many other publications and has been translated into 10 languages. He holds degrees in history from Princeton and Tel Aviv University.
RYAN VER BERKMOES
Ryan once lived in Germany. He spent three years in Frankfurt, during which time he edited a magazine until he got a chance for a new career with... Lonely Planet. One of his first jobs was working on Lonely Planet’s Germany coverage. He loves smoked fish, which serves him well in the north, and he loves beer, which serves him well everywhere in Germany. Follow him at ryanverberkmoes.com and @ryanvb.
Read more about Ryan at: https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/ryanvb
Read more about Andy at: https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/andysymington
Read more about Brendan at: https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/brendansainsbury
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SALLY O’BRIEN
Australian-born Sally, a Lonely Planet writer since 2001, has called Switzerland home since 2007. Swapping her surfboard for a snowboard, the beach for the lake and the barbecue for the caquelon, she loves exploring Switzerland’s charming cities, the sublime Alps and lakes, and catching cable cars and trains to stunning vantage points. It’s only fitting that she became a naturalised Swiss citizen while on the road for this guide. She lives with her husband, Denis, and their sons in the Lake Geneva region. Sally tweets @swissingaround.
CATHERINE LE NEVEZ
Catherine’s wanderlust kicked in when she roadtripped across Europe aged four. She’s been hitting the road at every opportunity since, completing her Doctorate of Creative Arts in Writing, Masters in Professional Writing, and post-graduate qualifications in editing and publishing along the way. Over the last dozen-plus years she’s written scores of Lonely Planet guides, along with numerous print and online articles, covering destinations all over Europe and far beyond.
Read more about Paula at: https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/paulahardy
Read more about Catherine at: https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/catherine_le_nevez
Read more about Josephine at: https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/josephinequintero
JOSEPHINE QUINTERO
Spain is Josephine’s favourite country on earth and she has lived in Málaga province on the Costa del Sol for over 20 years. As well as co-authoring four editions of the Lonely Planet Spain title, she has worked on the Andalucía regional guide and numerous other Lonely Planet titles. For this book her highlight was discovering still more fine dining venues in the cobbled Marbella backstreets.
PAULA HARDY
From the slopes of Valpolicella to the shores of Lake Como and the spritz-fuelled bars of Venice and Milan, Paula has been contributing to Lonely Planet Italian guides for over 15 years, including previous editions of Venice & the Veneto, Pocket Milan, The Italian Lakes, Sicily, Sardinia, Puglia & Basilicata and Italy. When she’s not scooting around the bel paese, she writes for a variety of travel publications and websites. Currently she divides her time between London, Italy and Morocco, and tweets her finds @paula6hardy.
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Read more about Marc at: https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/Madidu
MARC DI DUCA
A well-established travel guide author, Marc has explored many corners of Germany over the last 25 years but it’s to the quirky variety and friendliness of Bavaria that he returns most willingly. When not hiking Alpine valleys, eating snowballs in Rothenburg ob der Tauber or brewery hopping in Bamberg, he can be found in Sandwich, Kent, where he lives with his wife, Tanya, and their two sons.
Read more about Peter at https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/peterdragicevich
PETER DRAGICEVICH
After a successful career in niche newspaper and magazine publishing, both in his native New Zealand and in Australia, Peter finally gave into Kiwi wanderlust, giving up staff jobs to chase his diverse roots around much of Europe. Over the last decade he’s written literally dozens of guidebooks for Lonely Planet on an oddly disparate collection of countries, all of which he’s come to love. He once again calls Auckland, New Zealand his home – although his current nomadic existence means he’s hardly ever there.
Read more about Duncan at: https://auth. lonelyplanet.com/profiles/duncangarwood
DUNCAN GARWOOD
A Brit travel writer based in the Castelli Romani hills just outside Rome, Duncan has clocked up tens of thousands of kilometres driving through Italy and exploring its far-flung reaches. He’s co-author of the Rome city guide and has contributed to a host of Lonely Planet guidebooks including Italy, Piedmont, Sicily, Sardinia, and Naples and the Amalfi Coast. He has also written on Italy for newspapers, websites and magazines.
Read more about Anthony at: https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/anthonyham
ANTHONY HAM
In 2001, Anthony fell in love with Madrid on his first visit to the city. Less than a year later, he arrived on a one-way ticket, with not a word of Spanish and not knowing a single person. After ten years living in the city, he recently returned to Australia with his Spanish-born family, but he still adores his adopted country as much as the first day he arrived. When he’s not writing for Lonely Planet, Anthony writes about and photographs Spain, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Australia and Africa for newspapers and magazines around the world. See www.anthonyham.com.
FIONN DAVENPORT
Irish by birth and conviction, Fionn has been writing about his native country for more than two decades. He’s come and gone over the years, pulled abroad to escape Dublin’s comfortable stasis and by the promise of adventure, but it has cemented his belief that Ireland remains his favourite place to visit, if not always live in. These days, he has a weekly commute home to Dublin from Manchester, where he lives with his partner Laura and their car, Trevor. In Dublin he presents Inside Culture on RTE Radio 1 and writes travel features for a host of publications, including The Irish Times.
Read more about Kerry at: https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/KerryChristiani
KERRY CHRISTIANI
Kerry's research for this guide included parts of Portugal and France. Her love affair with Portugal began as a child clambering along the cliffs of the Algarve. She later fell for the rest of the country – its captivating landscapes, super-friendly locals, fresh seafood and photogenic light. She’s been travelling in her beloved France since she first visited in her school days to brush up her français, which she went on to study to MA level. Kerry authors a number of Lonely Planet’s central and southern European titles and tweets @kerrychristiani.
Read more about Stuart at: https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/stuartbutler
STUART BUTLER
Stuart’s first childhood encounters with Spain came on a school trip to the far south of Spain and family holidays along the north coast. These left lasting impressions and when he was older he spent every summer on the Basque beaches, until one day he found he was unable to tear himself away – he’s been in the region ever since. His travels for Lonely Planet, and a wide variety of magazines, have taken him beyond Spain, to the shores of the Arctic, the mountains of Asia and the savannahs of Africa. His website is www.stuartbutlerjournalist.com.
Read more about Oliver at: https://auth. lonelyplanet.com/profiles/oliverberry
OLIVER BERRY
Oliver Berry has explored nearly every corner of France for Lonely Planet, travelling all the way from the mountains of Corsica to the beaches of Normandy. He has also photographed and written about France for many newspapers, magazines and online publications. When not in France, he can usually be found wandering the beaches and clifftops of his home county, Cornwall. His latest work is published at oliverberry.com.
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OUR STORYA beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end –
broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies. Lonely Planet was born.
Today, Lonely Planet has offices in Franklin, London, Melbourne, Oakland, Dublin, Beijing and Delhi, with more than 600 staff and writers. We share Tony’s belief that ‘a great guidebook should do three things: inform, educate and amuse’.
ISABEL ALBISTON
After growing up near Belfast, Isabel spent the next 15 years travelling and living all over the world. She has written for newspapers and magazines while based in London, Sydney and Buenos Aires; she has also worked on Lonely Planet titles such as Borneo and Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei. But it’s in coming home to Ireland that she’s been able to fully appreciate this beautiful corner of the world, from the bracing breezes of the Atlantic coast to the warmth of its cosy pubs.
BELINDA DIXON
Only happy when her feet are suitably sandy, Belinda has been (gleefully) travelling, researching and writing for Lonely Planet since 2006. It’s seen her marvelling at Stonehenge at sunrise; scrambling up Italian mountain paths; horse riding across Donegal’s golden sands; kayaking down south Devon rivers; gazing at Verona’s frescoes; fossil hunting on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. A trained radio journalist, her innate nosiness means few likely-looking sleep spots go unexplored. See her VideoBlog posts at https://belindadixon.com
Read more about Isabel at: https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/isabelalbiston
Read more about Belinda at: https://auth.lonelyplanet.com/profiles/belindadixon
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