Salzburg

The city of Mozart, which surrounded by forests and castel-topped mountain, Salzburg's countless concerts and music festivals in summer reflects that it's absolutely a city of music, where you can find people play and practice music almost everywhere. You should never have problems to find music performances.
Visit the Hohensalzburg castle, a medieval castle built on ancient Celtic and Roman site, also the Mirable Schloss, a Baroque wonder castle, built in 1720 by Lukas van Hidebrand, and do not miss to see the famous 'Angel Staircase'. Take a look at Mozart's and his life at Getreidegasse 9.

Wien

Vienna or Wien, the capital city of Austria, is actually a real beautiful city, which has a lot of magnificence palaces, gardens, and statues. It's the capital of world music, and the city of Beethoven, Schubert, and Strauss.
Accommodation especially in summer, is likely to be more difficult to find. Try to taste the famous 'Wiener Schnitze', "Serbische Bohnensuppe', and Goulash. Sit in a cafe along Kartnerstr and choose to order coffee in either 'Schwazer', 'Braun', 'Melange', or 'Mazagron'.
Explore the city from the Gothic Cathedral Stephansdown, than walkdown to the main shopping arcade Kartnerstr. Visit the Hofburg or the Imperial Palace, the Volksgarten, the Rathaus, mostly the late 19th centuries neo Gothic buildings with Victorian style roofs.


You might have to look to the memorials of former house of Freud, Schubert, Strauss, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, and Brahms.
The Prater is the huge park between the city and the Danube. You might attend the fine orchestral concerts held in the couldyard of the Rathaus.

Bruxelles

Brussels, the capital of Belgium, and headquarters of both NATO and EEC, like Barcelona, it's one of European cities which designed in an Art Nouveau architecture style, where Baron Victor Horta style is the greatest representative in town.
It lies on the Amsterdam - Paris train line, so it's so easy to access from the railway station Gare du Midi. The center of the city is the Grand Place, this magnificent place is considered as ' The most beautiful square in the World ' ( Victor Hugo ).
This is the bilingual city, where people speak both French and Dutch, but mostly they are speak French.
Visit the Musee d'Art Ancien for a huge collections of Flemish masterpieces, including paintings by Ruben's, and Breughel's. In Royal Art and History Museum, you find Egyptian, Greek, Roman art, stainedglasses , jewelry, and tapestry exhibits.
Take a look a real junk flea market, in a lower class area, Marolles, at place du Jeu de Balle. Walk through the length of Galerie St. Hubert, Europe's oldest shopping arcade.

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This city which is also called Venice of the North, is actually one of the purest medieval cities in Northern Europe. It can be reach easily by train from Brussels and takes about an hour trip.
You won't be disappointed to see various and colorful flowers in this beautiful and tranquil city, with towers and bells, and canal lines. Colorful flowers, the old gabled houses, the lake and meadow-dwelling swans, just like in the fairy tale.
Most of the museums exhibits the masterpiece of Flemish Arts. Unlike Brussels, where most people speak French, here they speak Flemish, which sounds like Dutch. The best way to explore the city is on foot. Visit the Groeninge Museum which housed the masterpieces of van Eycks and Breughels. Gruuthuse Museum a XVth century house which exhibits the collection of lold weapons, musical instruments, pottery, lace, and coins. Michelangelo's 'Madonna and Child' is now inside the Church of Our Lady. Buy everything cheaper at flea market in weekend afternoon at the canal bank in front of the museum

Granada

Visit the Alhambra, the Arab Monument, built on a hill with splendid woods and gardens, it's one of the finest Muslim arts and architectures in the world. While across the Darro River lie the Gypsy caves of Sacramonte ant the ancient Arab village Albaicin.
Granada is also well known of its Corpus Christi celebration, where you might have festivities, processions, and bullfight in May.

Barcelona

It's a grand and beautiful Catalonia's autonomous government who speak Catalans, which is different from Spanish, and they are very proud to be Catalans.
In 1859 they pulled down the medieval walls and built a new geometrical city, designed by Art Nouveau architect, Antoni Gaudi.
It's flanked by Montjuic Hill to the south and to the north there beautiful beaches like Costa Brava and Costa Dorada. Take an evening stroll at La Ramblas and sit on a cafe taste 'sangria' a blend of ginger ale, vodca, fruit juices and a lot more. Enjoy one of the most beautiful street in the world, where, crowds,flowers, cafes, pickpockets, pantomim players, magicians, one ring circus, tourists from allover the world, are here mixed up, just beside The Columbus Monument.



Visit the Antoni Gaudi's unfinished temple de la Sagrada Familia. The construction of this flamboyant and colorful temple began in 1882, and still unfinished now. It looks like a temple, or perhaps cathedral, or even a complicated Gothic Style building .'Stoner Paradise' is the other name of Barcelona since you might have and consume hashish less than 2 ons freely.
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Madrid

For "Madrilenos' , although they concern themselves with modern world, they actually have not abandoned their origins. Most buildings in Madrid recall the grand old style , look at the Prado Museum, and the grandeur of the Royal Palace. Madrid's center has two landmarks i.e. The Royal Palace and The Park Retiro. Between them , a large square which is the center of Madrid, The Puerto del Sol, where almost all streets intersect here.
Food are various, much of them have been influenced by other regions, try 'cocido' . Also visit Prado Museum which houses both Spanish and European first class arts, not less than 5000 paintings collected from all over Europe. From El Greco, Hoya, Velasquez, Bosch, Breughel, and Botticelli. At Cason del Buen Retiro you might see Picasso's famous la Guernica.
Go east, and find Retiro Park, an elegant garden, forest, fountains, botanical collections, a lake , and Palacio de Cristal, a glass structure , housing cultural exhibits. Take a stroll at Plaza Mayor
, a 17th century square, built by Philip III, where you find shops, markets, restaurants, and summer festivities.


Watch the most bloodiest attraction in the world 'the bullfight', where every week at least 12 bulls will be killed furiously, in every city which conduct the show, like Madrid, Barcelona, Pamplona, and Sevilla, and other cities in Spain.

Pisa

The city states of Pisa, as a University town, developed its own distinctive style of architecture. Everything to see here is concentrated at the Leaning Tower. If you have claustrophobia, acrophobia, or uncontrollable desire to jump, don't try to risk yourself to go to the 294 steps.
Both Firenze and Pisa could be reached from Rome in a day, but you would be better stay in Florence to enjoy the beauty of the city . Sit in a cafe and have a drink, think about all good things in the rest of your life.

Firenze

Unlike most European countries, Italy looks like just a collection of city-states, where the differences in accents, food, art, attitude which emerges when we travel between cities is so real, even in a very short distance, we'll have something new and different, and of course it's worth to enjoy. Firenze or Florence is actually a simple city to navigate. The city centre iis just lies between the Duomo and the bridge Ponte Vecchio. Foe some of you who do not have a lot of cash, try to stay free at Area di Sosto at Villa Favard, it's safe. Visit Uffizi which show a basic introduction to Renaissance, Giotto, and Cimabue, it has the best Italian Renaissance, like Poolo Uccello, Piero de la Francesca, Botticelli, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Repheel, and Titian, also some Rembrandt's self portrait.


The Duomo, stands at the heart of the city, this huge dome was built in 15th century by Brunelleschi.
Musical events actually can be found all year, but in summer you might have a special show at Estate Fiesolana where old Roman Theater, concert, opera, ballet, theater, movies, will be performed. Try to take a walk down to the steps of Duomo, the piazzale Michelangelo and Ponte Vecchio, where people from allover the world mingeld regardless of color, race, and social status.

Venezia

A wonderful floating city, founded in the mid-fifth century, in the northern of Italy, it's prime points are the Grand Canal ( Canal Grande ) and Piazza San Marco. This great but puzzling city, where you might be entrapped in a labyrinth, so buy a map and explore this great city on foot or use the vaporetti or motorbuses.
The city itself is divided into six sections i.e. San Marco, castello, Sana Croce, San Polo, Cannaregio, and Dorsoduro. This city is great and bewildering, where the more you see, the more like in a dream city. Almost all the activities in Venice is actually just around the Piazza San Marco, but you still have a lot to explore, like Vendramin Calergi, la' d'Oro, and Ca' Foscari, a few example of splendid palaces built during the late Renaissance.
Visit the glass museum at Murano, and Torcello, an island with supetrb Byzantine cathedral.
Take a stroll in the evening along the Grand Canal or sitting in cafes or take a gondopla ride down the Grand Canal.