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• Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain

  Year-round spring on the biggest Canary Island

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  • Great weather

• Funchal (Madeira) Portugal

  Madeira's island capital with a nomad village

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  • Great weather

• Puerto de la Cruz Spain

  Tenerife's green north-coast resort with black-sand beaches and Manrique's sea pools

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  • Great weather

• Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain

  Europe's winter-sun nomad base

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  • Great weather

• Ponta Delgada (Azores) Portugal

  Azores capital with crater lakes and mild Atlantic weather

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  • Great weather

• Cascais Portugal

  Lisbon's beach town at the end of the coastal railway

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• Valletta Malta

  Tiny English-speaking island capital in the Med

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• Sitges Spain

  Barcelona's beach town: LGBTQ+ friendly, pretty and pricey

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• Sliema Malta

  Malta's seafront hub, with a ferry to Valletta and a view of it

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• Palma de Mallorca Spain

  Island capital with a Gothic cathedral and a beach

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• Faro (Algarve) Portugal

  Algarve base with beaches and an airport

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  • Nomad visa
  • 90+ days, US passport
  • US-friendly hours

• Albacete Spain

  Flat, sociable La Mancha city of knives and a September fair

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• Mataró Spain

  Maresme beach city 40 minutes up the coast from Barcelona

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• Setúbal Portugal

  Port city south of Lisbon with the Arrábida hills and Troia's beaches at hand

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• Arrecife (Lanzarote) Spain

  Lanzarote's working capital among volcanoes

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  • Great weather

• Terrassa Spain

  Former Catalan textile city, 40 minutes by train from Barcelona

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• Budapest Hungary

  Thermal baths, ruin bars and low rents

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  • Under $1.5k
  • Nomad visa
  • 90+ days, US passport

• Corralejo (Fuerteventura) Spain

  Fuerteventura's wind and surf town with dune beaches

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  • Great weather

• Lisbon Portugal

  Sunny Atlantic capital with Europe's biggest nomad scene

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  • Food city
  • Nomad visa
  • 90+ days, US passport

• Málaga Spain

  Costa del Sol tech hub with a beach

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• Lagos (Algarve) Portugal

  Western Algarve town of cliffs, coves and sailing

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• The Hague Netherlands

  International city with a North Sea beach

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  • 90+ days, US passport
  • Easy start
  • Top 10 overall

• Barcelona Spain

  Beach, grid streets and big-city everything

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  • Food city
  • Nomad visa
  • 90+ days, US passport

• Tarragona Spain

  Roman ruins and a city beach an hour down the coast from Barcelona

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• Benidorm Spain

  High-rise beach resort with year-round life and a huge British presence

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• Győr Hungary

  Baroque river town between Vienna and Budapest

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• Lleida Spain

  Inland Catalan city of orchards and snails, an hour from Barcelona by AVE

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• Malmö Sweden

  Sweden's youngest city, a bridge from Copenhagen

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  • 90+ days, US passport
  • Easy start
  • Top 10 overall

• Salamanca Spain

  Golden-stone university city where foreigners come to learn Spanish

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• Portimão Portugal

  The Algarve's working city, with Praia da Rocha and lower rents than Lagos

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• Ibiza Town Spain

  Island capital with winter calm and summer excess

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• Leiden Netherlands

  Canal city of the Netherlands' oldest university, 15 minutes from Schiphol

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• Utrecht Netherlands

  Canal city that is all of Amsterdam's charm with fewer tourists

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  • Walkable

• Alcalá de Henares Spain

  Cervantes' birthplace and UNESCO university town, 35 minutes from Madrid

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• Burgos Spain

  Gothic cathedral city on the Camino, with long cold winters

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• Cádiz Spain

  Andalusia's old seaside city with urban beaches

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• Leeuwarden Netherlands

  Frisian capital of canals, a leaning tower and the Wadden islands

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• Porto Portugal

  Lisbon's cheaper, moodier northern sibling

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  • Nomad visa
  • 90+ days, US passport
  • US-friendly hours

• Haarlem Netherlands

  Amsterdam's prettier, calmer neighbour, 15 minutes by train and 10 from the beach

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• Madrid Spain

  High-energy capital with Spain's best transport

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  • Nomad visa
  • 90+ days, US passport
  • Top 10 overall

• 's-Hertogenbosch Netherlands

  Brabant's capital of canals, Bosch and carnival

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• Sintra Portugal

  Palace-studded hill town 40 minutes by train from Lisbon, swamped by day-trippers

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• Toledo Spain

  Hilltop UNESCO old town half an hour by train from Madrid

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• Bilbao Spain

  Basque food and design in a compact city

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  • Walkable

• Valladolid Spain

  Castilian plateau city with good tapas, Ribera wine and an hour's train to Madrid

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• Albufeira Portugal

  The Algarve's biggest resort: cliff beaches, bars and a long off-season

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• Breda Netherlands

  Lively Brabant city between Rotterdam and Antwerp

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• Enschede Netherlands

  University city of Twente, on the German border

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• Jerez de la Frontera Spain

  Sherry bodegas, flamenco and horses in a cheap, flat Andalusian city

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• Karlsruhe Germany

  Fan-shaped planned city with a tech university and one of Germany's warmest climates

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• León (Spain) Spain

  Camino city of stained glass, free tapas and cold plateau winters

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• Székesfehérvár Hungary

  Hungary's old coronation city between Budapest and Balaton

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  • Fast wifi

• Athens Greece

  Ancient city, modern nomad scene, island escapes

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  • Nomad visa
  • 90+ days, US passport
  • Easy start

• Badajoz Spain

  Border city on the Guadiana, with Portugal a few minutes away

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• Szeged Hungary

  Hungary's sunniest city, rebuilt in Art Nouveau on the Tisza

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• Alicante Spain

  Costa Blanca base with a real city behind the beach

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• Mahón (Menorca) Spain

  Menorca's harbour capital with a quiet Mediterranean life

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• Odense Denmark

  Hans Christian Andersen's hometown, Denmark's cycling-friendly third city

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  • Fast wifi
  • Easy start
  • English-friendly

• San Sebastián Spain

  Pintxos, surf and the prettiest bay in Spain

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• Córdoba (Spain) Spain

  Mezquita, patios and some of the cheapest rents of any Spanish city

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• Évora Portugal

  Alentejo's walled UNESCO town: Roman temple, cork country and hot, slow summers

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• Heidelberg Germany

  Castle town with Germany's oldest university and a global research scene

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• Tarifa Spain

  Europe's wind and kitesurf capital at the tip of Spain

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• Watford United Kingdom

  London-edge commuter town with Tube and fast trains

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• Castellón de la Plana Spain

  Valencian coast city of tile makers, an hour from Valencia by train

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• Leiria Portugal

  Castle town between Lisbon and Porto, near Nazaré and Batalha

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• Šibenik Croatia

  Dalmatian cathedral city without Split's crowds

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• Tilburg Netherlands

  Former wool town turned student and music city

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• Coimbra Portugal

  Historic university city on the Mondego with low rents

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• Huelva Spain

  Atlantic port of Columbus' first voyage, between Doñana and Portugal

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• Valencia Spain

  Barcelona's calmer, cheaper Mediterranean cousin

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  • Nomad visa

• Aveiro Portugal

  Canals, art nouveau and a university town pace

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• Groningen Netherlands

  Student city of the Dutch north, built around bikes

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• Marbella Spain

  Costa del Sol resort with an old town, a marina and year-round sun

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• Tavira Portugal

  The Algarve's quietest pretty town, with island beaches

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• Deventer Netherlands

  Hanseatic town on the IJssel with a medieval quarter and a huge book market

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• Zwolle Netherlands

  Hanseatic city inside a star-shaped moat, the hub of the Dutch north-east

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• Ericeira Portugal

  Europe's first World Surfing Reserve, 45 minutes from Lisbon

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• Naxos Greece

  Largest Cycladic island, farming and beaches, less polished than its neighbours

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• Rome Italy

  History on every corner, chaos on every road

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  • Nomad visa

• Darmstadt Germany

  Science city with Frankfurt's airport about half an hour away

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• Paros (Parikia) Greece

  Cycladic ferry hub with kitesurfing and a fast-rising price tag

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• Plzeň Czechia

  The Pilsner brewing city of western Bohemia, cheaper than Prague

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  • Very safe

• Girona Spain

  Medieval city near Barcelona with a cycling cult

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• Murcia Spain

  Cheap, sunny inland city with the Costa Cálida 45 minutes away

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• Portsmouth United Kingdom

  Dense island naval city with ferries to France and Spain

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• Hvar Croatia

  Island party town with a Venetian harbour

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• Apeldoorn Netherlands

  Green, spread-out town at the edge of the Veluwe forests

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• Frankfurt Germany

  Germany's finance hub with the continent's best airport

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  • Most connected

• Nazaré Portugal

  Fishing town famous for the world's biggest surfable waves

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• Mannheim Germany

  Gridded, gritty Rhine-Neckar city with a music scene and Frankfurt airport 30 min away

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• Amsterdam Netherlands

  Bike-first canals and an international job market

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  • Easy start
  • Walkable
  • Most connected

• Peniche Portugal

  Surf-and-sardines peninsula town with Supertubos and the Berlengas offshore

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• Seville Spain

  Sun-soaked Andalusian charm on a budget

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• Guimarães Portugal

  Portugal's 'birthplace', a UNESCO old town an hour from Porto

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• Pécs Hungary

  Hungary's sunny southern city of Roman tombs and Zsolnay tiles

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• Lugano Switzerland

  Italian-speaking Switzerland on a lake, an hour from Milan

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  • Very safe

• Nijmegen Netherlands

  The Netherlands' oldest city, hilly and green by the Waal river

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• Zadar Croatia

  Dalmatian coast city cheaper than Split

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• Lund Sweden

  Tiny medieval university town between Malmö and Copenhagen

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• Reading United Kingdom

  Thames Valley tech town 25 minutes from Paddington

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• Braga Portugal

  Portugal's youngest city, an hour from Porto

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• Erfurt Germany

  Thuringia's well-kept medieval capital at a crossing of ICE lines

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• Uppsala Sweden

  Sweden's oldest university city, 18 minutes from Arlanda

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• Zaragoza Spain

  Spain's affordable fifth city between Madrid and Barcelona

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• Crawley United Kingdom

  Post-war new town built around Gatwick Airport

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• Dubrovnik Croatia

  Walled city on the Adriatic

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• Cagliari Italy

  Sardinian capital with a city beach and slow rhythm

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• Constanța Romania

  Romania's Black Sea port, Roman Tomis under the concrete

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• Copenhagen Denmark

  Design, bikes and quality of life, at a price

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  • Walkable

• Jaén Spain

  Olive oil capital below a hilltop castle, cheap and very Spanish

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• London United Kingdom

  Global hub with the deepest job market in Europe

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  • Food city
  • US-friendly hours
  • Most connected

• Oviedo Spain

  Asturias' tidy capital: cider, pre-Romanesque churches and green hills

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• Siracusa Italy

  Greek ruins and Baroque Ortigia on the Sicilian coast

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• Stockholm Sweden

  Scandi capital on fourteen islands

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• Cambridge United Kingdom

  Flat, bike-first university city at the heart of the UK's tech cluster

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• Chania (Crete) Greece

  Venetian harbour town on western Crete

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• Heraklion (Crete) Greece

  Crete's main city with history and a long season

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• Le Mans France

  Race town with a medieval core, under an hour from Paris

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• Logroño Spain

  Rioja wine capital with the tapas street of Calle Laurel

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• Orléans France

  Loire city of Joan of Arc, about an hour from Paris by train

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• Santander Spain

  Cantabrian port with city beaches and green hills

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• Debrecen Hungary

  Hungary's flat second city with a big university and a BMW plant

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• Koblenz Germany

  Rhine and Moselle meeting point with a hilltop fortress and wine valleys

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• Almería Spain

  Spain's driest, sunniest city, with the Cabo de Gata coast next door

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• Liberec Czechia

  North Bohemian city under Ještěd, near Germany and Poland

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• Mainz Germany

  Rhine wine city of Gutenberg, carnival and BioNTech

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• Miskolc Hungary

  Hungary's northern former steel city by the Bükk hills

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• Würzburg Germany

  Baroque wine city on the Main, between Frankfurt and Nuremberg

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• Lecce Italy

  Baroque city of the Salento, at Italy's heel

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• Milton Keynes United Kingdom

  Planned new town with parks and fast trains to London

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• Southampton United Kingdom

  Port and university city on the south coast, 75 minutes from London

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• Alghero Italy

  Catalan-speaking walled town on Sardinia's Coral Riviera

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• Bern Switzerland

  Swiss capital with a UNESCO old town and a river to swim in

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  • Walkable

• Caen France

  Normandy university city near the D-Day beaches

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• Linköping Sweden

  Swedish aviation and university city on the Östergötland plain

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• Livorno Italy

  Working Tuscan port with canals, fish stew and ferries to the islands

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• Messina Italy

  Sicily's ferry gateway on the Strait, facing Calabria

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• Olomouc Czechia

  Moravian university town that Prague tourists skip

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• Reims France

  Champagne capital about 45 minutes from Paris by TGV

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• Sibiu Romania

  Transylvanian Saxon town with a tech economy

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• Slough United Kingdom

  Data-centre town next to Heathrow and Windsor

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• Sorrento Italy

  Cliff-top resort for Capri and the Amalfi Coast, overrun in summer

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• Wiesbaden Germany

  Elegant spa capital of Hesse, 30 minutes from Frankfurt airport

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• Brussels Belgium

  EU capital with a multilingual job market

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• Pula Croatia

  Roman arena and Istrian coast at low prices

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• Bari Italy

  Southern port with a lively old town and Puglia on the doorstep

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• Brighton United Kingdom

  England's seaside creative hub, an hour from London

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• Granada Spain

  Alhambra views on a student budget

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• Helsingborg Sweden

  Swedish port at the narrowest point of the Øresund, 20 min from Denmark

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• Santorini (Fira) Greece

  Caldera-edge town with cruise crowds and volcanic views

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• Dijon France

  Burgundy's wine capital, about 1 h 40 from Paris by TGV

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• Leuven Belgium

  Belgium's big university town, 20 minutes from Brussels and its airport

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• Piran Slovenia

  Venetian old town on a tiny peninsula of Slovenia's short coast

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• Salerno Italy

  Seafront city at the end of the Amalfi Coast, with ferries and fast trains

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• Tours France

  Loire Valley base with a TGV to Paris in about an hour

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• Västerås Sweden

  Engineering city on Lake Mälaren, under 1 h from Stockholm

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• Aachen Germany

  Charlemagne's spa city on the Belgian and Dutch borders

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• Le Havre France

  Rebuilt Channel port with a UNESCO-listed modernist centre

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• Munich Germany

  Bavarian capital with Alps at the door

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  • Walkable

• Regensburg Germany

  Intact medieval Danube city with a tech economy and Italian pace

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• Reggio Calabria Italy

  Strait-side city of the Riace Bronzes, facing Sicily and Etna

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• Rhodes Greece

  Medieval walled island city with a long summer

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• Terni Italy

  Umbrian steel town near the Marmore Falls

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• Vienna Austria

  Repeatedly the world's most livable city

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  • Food city
  • Walkable

• Antwerp Belgium

  Fashion, diamonds and Belgium's best nightlife

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• Ipswich United Kingdom

  Suffolk waterfront town an hour from London

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• Makarska Croatia

  Pebble-beach riviera town under the Biokovo cliffs

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• Manchester United Kingdom

  Music, football and the UK's second tech hub

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  • US-friendly hours

• Mykonos Greece

  Cycladic party island, glamorous in summer and shut in winter

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• Oradea Romania

  Art Nouveau city near the Hungarian border

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• Perugia Italy

  Umbrian hilltop capital with a jazz festival and a foreigners' university

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• Prague Czechia

  Fairy-tale centre with a serious tech economy

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• Elche Spain

  Palm-grove city beside Alicante airport and the Costa Blanca beaches

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• Gijón Spain

  Asturias' biggest city, with an urban beach and a cider-soaked fishing quarter

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• Hull United Kingdom

  Humber port city with low rents and early full fibre

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• Oxford United Kingdom

  University city an hour from London, with housing costs to match

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• Paris France

  The capital of everything, at a capital's price

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  • Food city
  • Most connected

• Zürich Switzerland

  Immaculate, efficient, and eye-wateringly expensive

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• Düsseldorf Germany

  Rhine city of fashion, art and Japan's largest European community

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• Maribor Slovenia

  Slovenia's second city, between vineyards and Pohorje ski slopes

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• Aarhus Denmark

  Denmark's second city with a beach and a big university

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  • Fast wifi

• Augsburg Germany

  Roman-founded Fugger city, half an hour from Munich

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• Limassol Cyprus

  Sun, sea and a tax-friendly EU base

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• Namur Belgium

  Wallonia's capital under a citadel where two rivers meet

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• Split Croatia

  Dalmatian coast base with a nomad permit

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• Taranto Italy

  Port city of two seas, with Greek treasures and a troubled steelworks

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• Geneva Switzerland

  International city on a lake, at Swiss prices

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• Gothenburg Sweden

  Sweden's laid-back west-coast city

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• Košice Slovakia

  Slovakia's eastern capital with a Gothic core and IT jobs

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• Naples Italy

  Loud, cheap and the best pizza on earth

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• Perpignan France

  Sunny Catalan city near the Pyrenees, the beaches and Spain

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• Potsdam Germany

  Palace-and-lake capital of Brandenburg, on Berlin's doorstep

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• Swindon United Kingdom

  Railway town on the M4 corridor, an hour from London

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• Timișoara Romania

  Western Romania's tech hub and 2023 European Capital of Culture

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• Basel Switzerland

  Rhine city where three countries meet

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• Milan Italy

  Italy's business and design capital

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  • Food city
  • Most connected

• Nafplio Greece

  Greece's first modern capital, a Venetian harbour town two hours from Athens

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• Rouen France

  Normandy's capital, about 1 h 15 from Paris by train

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• Craiova Romania

  Oltenia's capital with a grand park and budget flights

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• Kos Greece

  Flat, bike-friendly Dodecanese island facing Bodrum

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• Lucerne Switzerland

  Lake-and-mountain postcard town, 45 minutes from Zürich

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  • Fast wifi

• Örebro Sweden

  Central Swedish city with a castle in the middle of the river

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• Pamplona Spain

  Navarre's walled capital, famous for one week in July and quiet the rest of the year

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• Pisa Italy

  Student city with its own airport, an hour from Florence

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• Rotterdam Netherlands

  Modern architecture and a port-city edge

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• York United Kingdom

  Walled medieval city with fast trains to London and Edinburgh

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• Andorra la Vella Andorra

  Pyrenean micro-capital with low taxes and ski slopes

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• Berlin Germany

  Creative, affordable-for-Western-Europe capital

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• Iași Romania

  Romania's cultural capital with a fast-growing IT scene

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• Liverpool United Kingdom

  Music, football and cheap rents in a big port city

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• Lyon France

  France's food capital with a startup scene

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• Maastricht Netherlands

  Hilly, Burgundian Dutch city on the Belgian and German borders

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• Ostrava Czechia

  Post-industrial Czech city with rock-bottom rents

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  • Under $1.5k

• Palermo Italy

  Sicilian capital with a raw, rich street life

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• Venlo Netherlands

  Maas border town where Dutch and German daily life mix

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• Brno Czechia

  Czechia's second city, calmer and cheaper than Prague

  Strong on Safety and QoL · Read more →

• Foggia Italy

  Farming hub of northern Puglia and gateway to the Gargano

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• Ghent Belgium

  Flemish university city with a car-free medieval centre

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• Patras Greece

  Greece's third city and the ferry port for Italy, with a big university

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• Sheffield United Kingdom

  Big, green, affordable city on the edge of the Peak District

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• Thessaloniki Greece

  Greece's laid-back second city

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• Toruń Poland

  Gothic brick old town and Copernicus's birthplace

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• Zagreb Croatia

  Central European feel with a nomad permit

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• Kalamata Greece

  Messenian coast city with a town beach, olives and a seasonal airport

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• Larnaca Cyprus

  Seafront Cyprus town next to the main airport

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• Udine Italy

  Quiet Friulian capital between the Alps, the Adriatic and Slovenia

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Bournemouth United Kingdom

  Seaside town with long sandy beaches and two universities

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• Freiburg Germany

  Sunny Black Forest university city built around bikes and trams

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• Münster Germany

  Germany's bicycle capital, a rainy university city with a perfect old town

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• Opole Poland

  Small Silesian city of river islands and song festivals

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• Parma Italy

  Food capital of Emilia with opera, bikes and fast trains

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• A Coruña Spain

  Galician peninsula city with urban beaches and a Roman lighthouse

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• Bruges Belgium

  Picture-perfect canal town that empties after the day-trippers leave

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• Peterborough United Kingdom

  Cathedral city 50 minutes from King's Cross

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• Santiago de Compostela Spain

  End of the Camino: a granite university city under frequent rain

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Satu Mare Romania

  Border city on the Someș with Hungarian roots and low costs

  Strong on Air and Internet · Read more →

• Turku Finland

  Finland's old capital on the Aura river, gateway to the archipelago

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• Amiens France

  Cathedral city on the Somme with floating market gardens

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• Ferrara Italy

  Renaissance city of bicycles inside its old walls

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• Kielce Poland

  Green regional capital among central Poland's limestone hills

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• Łódź Poland

  Post-industrial Polish city with cheap rents and film

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• Lübeck Germany

  Brick Gothic Hanseatic city on an island, with the Baltic nearby

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• Magdeburg Germany

  Green, affordable Elbe capital with an Ottonian cathedral

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• Matera Italy

  Cave-house city of the Sassi, striking and hard to reach

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Pärnu Estonia

  Estonia's summer capital, a spa town with a long sandy beach

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

  • Under $1.5k

• Rijeka Croatia

  Croatia's port city and gateway to the Kvarner Gulf

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Sofia Bulgaria

  Mountain-side capital with EU prices from a decade ago

  Strong on Air and Cost · Read more →

  • Cheap
  • Under $1.5k
  • Under $1k

• Zakynthos Greece

  Ionian island town with turtle beaches and a package-tourism south coast

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• Catania Italy

  Sicily's gritty, cheap city under Etna

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Charleroi Belgium

  Post-industrial Walloon city with a low-cost airport and a gritty art scene

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Edinburgh United Kingdom

  Festival city with a walkable medieval core

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Ljubljana Slovenia

  Small, green and car-free at the centre

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• Vlorë Albania

  Gateway to the Albanian Riviera, cheap and still unpolished

  Strong on Air and Visa · Read more →

• Bled Slovenia

  Alpine lake resort, lovely and overrun

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• Cologne Germany

  Cathedral, carnival and a relaxed Rhine city

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• Genoa Italy

  Ligurian port city with the Riviera on both sides

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Luton United Kingdom

  Airport town 25 minutes from London, cheaper but plain

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• Tartu Estonia

  Estonia's student town with a digital edge

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• Venice Italy

  Car-free lagoon city, extraordinary and overrun

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• Bologna Italy

  Food capital and university town under porticoes

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• Eindhoven Netherlands

  The Netherlands' design and tech city

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• La Rochelle France

  Atlantic harbour town with bikes, islands and an easy pace

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Ploiești Romania

  Oil-industry city an hour north of Bucharest

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• Tallinn Estonia

  Digital-first city that invented e-Residency

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• Varna Bulgaria

  Bulgaria's Black Sea city

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Bath United Kingdom

  Georgian spa city 15 minutes from Bristol, beautiful and pricey

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Białystok Poland

  Tidy north-eastern Polish city near Europe's last primeval forest

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Bristol United Kingdom

  Creative, independent and an hour and a half from London

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• Bucharest Romania

  Fast internet and low prices on the EU's edge

  Strong on Internet and QoL · Read more →

  • Under $1.5k

• Cannes France

  Riviera resort town with a film festival and year-round sun

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Cheltenham United Kingdom

  Regency spa town of festivals, GCHQ and the Cotswold edge

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Cluj-Napoca Romania

  Romania's tech capital in Transylvania

  Strong on Internet and QoL · Read more →

• Corfu (Kerkyra) Greece

  Venetian old town on a green Ionian island

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Coventry United Kingdom

  Postwar university city next to Birmingham's airport

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Doncaster United Kingdom

  Yorkshire railway city with low rents and fast trains

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Durrës Albania

  Albania's main port and beach city near Tirana

  Strong on Air and Visa · Read more →

• Hamburg Germany

  Germany's port city with water everywhere

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Nice France

  Riviera sun with real city life

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Toulon France

  Working naval port on the Provence coast, cheaper than Nice

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Bonn Germany

  Former capital turned UN city, 30 minutes from Cologne

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Dortmund Germany

  Football-mad Ruhr city of former mines, breweries and steelworks

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Essen Germany

  Ruhr cultural capital built on coal, now green and cheap

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• Gdańsk Poland

  Baltic port with a rebuilt old town

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Drammen Norway

  River city 35 min from Oslo, rebuilt around a cleaned-up waterfront

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

  • Very safe

• Leicester United Kingdom

  Diverse Midlands city with cheap rents and fast trains to London

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Reggio Emilia Italy

  Birthplace of the Italian flag, with a Calatrava station on the fast line

  Strong on Health and Visa · Read more →

• Rimini Italy

  Adriatic beach resort that goes quiet from November to Easter

  Strong on Health and Visa · Read more →

• Toulouse France

  Aerospace city with a pink-brick centre

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Warsaw Poland

  Modern Polish capital with a big economy

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• Lahti Finland

  Finnish ski and lake city 1 h from Helsinki, a former European Green Capital

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Ulm Germany

  Danube city under the world's tallest church spire

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Bordeaux France

  Wine capital, flat and bikeable

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Brașov Romania

  Transylvanian mountain town with a medieval old centre

  Strong on Internet and Air · Read more →

• Edirne Türkiye

  Former Ottoman capital on the Greek and Bulgarian borders

  Strong on Cost and Air · Read more →

• Northampton United Kingdom

  Shoemaking county town an hour from London

  Strong on QoL and Health · Read more →

• Norwich United Kingdom

  Medieval market city in East Anglia, quiet and cheap

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Paphos Cyprus

  Sunny harbour town with Roman mosaics and a nomad visa

  Strong on QoL and Health · Read more →

• Piacenza Italy

  Quiet Emilian town on the Po, under an hour from Milan

  Strong on Health and Visa · Read more →

• Rostock Germany

  Hanseatic Baltic port with a beach suburb and a 600-year-old university

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Bergamo Italy

  Walled hilltop old town above one of Italy's busiest low-cost airports

  Strong on Health and Visa · Read more →

• Helsinki Finland

  Design, saunas and the world's happiest country

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Interlaken Switzerland

  Adventure-sports resort between two lakes, under the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Stoke-on-Trent United Kingdom

  Six pottery towns with very low rents near the Peak District

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Trieste Italy

  Habsburg port city on the edge of Italy

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Aalborg Denmark

  North Jutland's student city on the Limfjord

  Strong on Internet and Air · Read more →

  • Fast wifi

• Exeter United Kingdom

  Devon's cathedral city, with Dartmoor and the coast close by

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Florence Italy

  Renaissance city that fits in an afternoon walk

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Lausanne Switzerland

  Hilly lakeside city with Olympic and student life

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Marseille France

  Gritty Mediterranean port reinventing itself

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Trier Germany

  Germany's oldest city, a Roman town in Moselle wine country

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Como Italy

  Lake Como's town, between Milan's trains and the Swiss border

  Strong on Health and Visa · Read more →

• Kiel Germany

  Baltic sailing city at the end of a fjord, with ferries to Scandinavia

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Montpellier France

  Young, sunny and car-free at the core

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Oslo Norway

  Fjord capital with nature at the tram stop

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Ruse Bulgaria

  Bulgaria's elegant Danube port, facing Romania

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Wolfsburg Germany

  Volkswagen's company town, with museums and a fast train to Berlin

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Zakopane Poland

  Poland's Tatra resort, crowded but mountain-perfect

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Arezzo Italy

  Tuscan hill town of Piero della Francesca and a monthly antiques fair

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Bielsko-Biała Poland

  'Little Vienna' at the foot of the Beskid mountains

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Braunschweig Germany

  Henry the Lion's city, a research hub between Hanover and Wolfsburg

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Modena Italy

  Motor Valley city of Ferrari, balsamic vinegar and a UNESCO cathedral

  Strong on Health and Visa · Read more →

• Nottingham United Kingdom

  Midlands student city with trams, cheap living and two universities

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Olbia Italy

  Sardinia's gateway port with an airport in town and the Costa Smeralda next door

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Pescara Italy

  Adriatic beach city with the Abruzzo mountains an hour inland

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Cardiff United Kingdom

  Compact Welsh capital with a castle and a stadium

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Linz Austria

  Austria's industrial third city reinvented around media arts on the Danube

  Strong on QoL and Health · Read more →

• Saarbrücken Germany

  Franco-German border capital with a strong computer science scene

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Siena Italy

  Gothic hill town of the Palio, with Chianti at the door

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Stuttgart Germany

  Engineering capital in a bowl of vineyards

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Veliko Tarnovo Bulgaria

  Medieval Bulgarian capital on a river gorge, at very low cost

  Strong on Air and Internet · Read more →

• Aix-en-Provence France

  Elegant Provençal university town half an hour from Marseille

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Ayia Napa Cyprus

  Clubbing resort on Cyprus's east coast, almost empty in winter

  Strong on QoL and Health · Read more →

• Burgas Bulgaria

  Bulgaria's southern Black Sea port with a summer airport

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Çeşme Türkiye

  Izmir's beach peninsula with Alaçatı's windsurfing and stone streets

  Strong on Air and Cost · Read more →

• Clermont-Ferrand France

  Volcano-ringed Michelin city in the middle of France

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Forlì Italy

  Flat Romagna town with Rationalist architecture and big art shows

  Strong on Health and Visa · Read more →

• Gloucester United Kingdom

  Cathedral city on the Severn with restored docks and lower rents

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Kraków Poland

  Poland's most walkable city, with a growing tech hub

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Plovdiv Bulgaria

  Europe's oldest living city, at Bulgarian prices

  Strong on Internet and QoL · Read more →

• Vicenza Italy

  Palladio's city, on the main rail line between Verona and Venice

  Strong on Health and Visa · Read more →

• Grenoble France

  Alpine tech and university city with ski resorts under an hour away

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Lublin Poland

  Eastern Poland's student city with a renaissance old town

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Verona Italy

  Roman arena, opera and Lake Garda next door

  Strong on Health and Visa · Read more →

• Birmingham United Kingdom

  Britain's second city, mid-rebuild and cheaper than it looks

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Hanover Germany

  Affordable, orderly state capital with trade fairs and clear German

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Jönköping Sweden

  Lakeside city at the southern tip of Vättern, Sweden's logistics hub

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Metz France

  Lorraine city with a Pompidou museum, next to Luxembourg

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Nuremberg Germany

  Medieval walls, bratwurst and a strong tech job market

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Rennes France

  Brittany's capital: a student city with a metro and a TGV to Paris

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Vigo Spain

  Galicia's biggest city: a working Atlantic port with the Cíes Islands offshore

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Angers France

  Green Loire city that tops France's liveability rankings

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Olsztyn Poland

  Lake-district capital with a Gothic castle and new trams

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Padua Italy

  Student city 25 minutes from Venice, at a fraction of the cost

  Strong on Health and Visa · Read more →

• Dublin Ireland

  English-speaking EU capital with a tech cluster

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Poznań Poland

  Trade-fair city halfway between Berlin and Warsaw

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Besançon France

  Green citadel town in a loop of the Doubs, near the Jura

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Annecy France

  Alpine lake town an hour from Geneva

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Bremen Germany

  Hanseatic port city-state on the Weser, cheaper than Hamburg

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Chișinău Moldova

  Green, cheap capital with wine country around it

  Strong on Air and Internet · Read more →

  • Under $1.5k

• Istanbul Türkiye

  Two continents, endless energy, weak lira

  Strong on Mobility and Health · Read more →

  • Most connected

• Jyväskylä Finland

  Finnish Lakeland university city where Alvar Aalto grew up

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Wrocław Poland

  Poland's tech hub with a hundred bridges

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Galway Ireland

  Ireland's west-coast festival and pub town

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Gliwice Poland

  Silesian tech and university city on Katowice's western edge

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Stavanger Norway

  Oil capital with fjord hikes and a wooden old town

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Glasgow United Kingdom

  Friendly, creative and cheaper than Edinburgh

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Riga Latvia

  Art Nouveau capital on the Baltic

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Swansea United Kingdom

  Welsh seaside city on the doorstep of the Gower beaches

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Târgu Mureș Romania

  Bilingual Transylvanian city of Secession palaces

  Strong on Internet and QoL · Read more →

• Trento Italy

  Alpine university city near the top of Italy's quality-of-life rankings

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Bratislava Slovakia

  Small Danube capital next door to Vienna

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Klaipėda Lithuania

  Lithuania's Baltic port next to the Curonian Spit

  Strong on Air and Internet · Read more →

• Leipzig Germany

  East Germany's creative boom town

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Strasbourg France

  European capital on the German border

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Turin Italy

  Elegant, underrated and cheaper than Milan

  Strong on Health and Visa · Read more →

• Alanya Türkiye

  Turkish Riviera resort with a castle and cheap living

  Strong on Cost and Air · Read more →

• Bydgoszcz Poland

  Riverside Polish city of granaries, canals and music

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Kristiansand Norway

  Norway's southern summer city with beaches, a zoo and an art silo

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Leeds United Kingdom

  Yorkshire's big working city, with the Dales an hour away

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Rzeszów Poland

  Fast-growing hub of southeast Poland near the Ukrainian border

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Biarritz France

  Basque surf town with Belle Époque style

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Graz Austria

  Austria's student city with a Mediterranean lean

  Strong on QoL and Health · Read more →

• Luxembourg City Luxembourg

  Tiny rich capital at the heart of Europe

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Saint-Étienne France

  Former coal and design city under an hour from Lyon, with low rents

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Szczecin Poland

  Green port city on the Oder, two hours from Berlin

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Dresden Germany

  Rebuilt Baroque capital with Elbe valley charm

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Elbasan Albania

  Central Albanian town inside Ottoman walls, an hour from Tirana

  Strong on Visa and Health · Read more →

• Lucca Italy

  Flat walled town built for bicycles, 30 minutes from Pisa airport

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Nantes France

  Creative Atlantic city with a strong tech scene

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Vilnius Lithuania

  Baroque old town and a fintech boom

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Bergen Norway

  Gateway to the fjords, rain included

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Kaunas Lithuania

  Lithuania's modernist second city

  Strong on Internet and QoL · Read more →

• Lincoln (England) United Kingdom

  Hilltop cathedral city with a university and a quiet pace

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Sarandë Albania

  Albanian Riviera town opposite Corfu

  Strong on Air and Visa · Read more →

• Avignon France

  Walled papal city in Provence, with a TGV to Paris in about 2 h 40

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Dundee United Kingdom

  Scotland's game-dev city on the Tay, with the V&A and low rents

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Larissa Greece

  Busy farming capital of Thessaly with an ancient theatre

  Strong on QoL and Health · Read more →

• Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom

  Geordie city with cheap rents, a metro and a famous night out

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Nicosia Cyprus

  Cyprus's inland capital, divided by the Green Line

  Strong on QoL and Health · Read more →

• Nîmes France

  Roman arena city in the south, with very hot summers

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Radom Poland

  Affordable Mazovian industrial city within reach of Warsaw

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Stara Zagora Bulgaria

  Leafy, planned Bulgarian city of lindens and Roman ruins

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Ajaccio France

  Napoleon's birthplace on a Corsican bay, with mountains behind

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Nancy France

  Art Nouveau and student city built around Place Stanislas

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Ourense Spain

  Galician hot-spring city with a fast train to Madrid

  Strong on Health and Internet · Read more →

• Tampere Finland

  Finland's lakeside second city with a sauna culture

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Umeå Sweden

  Young university city in northern Sweden, lined with birch trees

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Belfast United Kingdom

  The UK's cheapest capital, with the Irish coast an hour away

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Cork Ireland

  Ireland's second city with a food-market heart

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Mulhouse France

  Industrial Alsace city on the Swiss and German borders

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Tirana Albania

  Colourful, cheap and visa-free for a year

  Strong on Air and Visa · Read more →

• Częstochowa Poland

  Poland's pilgrimage city of Jasna Góra monastery

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Plymouth United Kingdom

  Naval port city on the Devon coast, cheap for the south-west

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Kuopio Finland

  Eastern Finland's lake city, with a tower view over Kallavesi

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Akureyri Iceland

  Iceland's capital of the north, a fjord town far from Reykjavík's crowds

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Budva Montenegro

  Montenegro's beach resort town on the Adriatic

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Chemnitz Germany

  Saxon industrial city and 2025 European Capital of Culture

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Kotor Montenegro

  Fjord-like bay and a walled medieval town

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Tromsø Norway

  Arctic city of northern lights, polar night and midnight sun

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Limerick Ireland

  Ireland's third city, a cheaper base on the Shannon

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Eskişehir Türkiye

  Student city of trams and riverside cafés between Istanbul and Ankara

  Strong on Air and Cost · Read more →

• Trondheim Norway

  Norway's tech and university city on a fjord

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Brest (France) France

  Atlantic naval port at the western tip of Brittany

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Katowice Poland

  Silesian coal capital turned business-services hub

  Strong on QoL and Safety · Read more →

• Limoges France

  Quiet porcelain city with some of France's lowest rents

  Strong on Air and Health · Read more →

• Bodrum Türkiye

  Aegean peninsula of whitewashed towns and marinas

  Strong on Cost and Air · Read more →

• Novi Sad Serbia

  Danube university city with the EXIT festival

  Strong on QoL and Air · Read more →

• Reykjavík Iceland

  Small capital at the edge of the Arctic

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Salzburg Austria

  Baroque city at the edge of the Alps

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Lille France

  Flemish-flavoured student city between Paris and London

  Strong on Health and Air · Read more →

• Aberdeen United Kingdom

  Scotland's granite oil city, between the North Sea and the Cairngorms

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Klagenfurt Austria

  Carinthian capital on a warm Alpine lake, near Italy and Slovenia

  Strong on QoL and Health · Read more →

• Bansko Bulgaria

  The mountain village that became a nomad institution

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Bursa Türkiye

  First Ottoman capital under a ski mountain, two hours from Istanbul

  Strong on Cost and Health · Read more →

• Rovaniemi Finland

  Arctic Circle town of Santa, northern lights and a short tourist season

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Ankara Türkiye

  Türkiye's orderly capital on the Anatolian plateau

  Strong on Cost and Air · Read more →

• Kutaisi Georgia

  Georgia's second city with a budget airport and year-long stays

  Strong on Visa and Cost · Read more →

• Tbilisi Georgia

  Year-long visa-free stays and Caucasus hospitality

  Strong on Visa and QoL · Read more →

• Oulu Finland

  Northern tech city where people cycle through the Arctic winter

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Çanakkale Türkiye

  Breezy Dardanelles student town between Troy and Gallipoli

  Strong on Air and Cost · Read more →

• Podgorica Montenegro

  Montenegro's practical capital, an hour from the coast

  Strong on Air and QoL · Read more →

• Belgrade Serbia

  Nightlife capital of the Balkans

  Strong on Cost and QoL · Read more →

  • Cheap
  • Under $1k

• Samsun Türkiye

  Black Sea port city where Atatürk landed in 1919

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• Batumi Georgia

  Black Sea resort with Georgia's visa freedom

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• Kaş Türkiye

  Small Lycian harbour town with clear water and diving

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• Antalya Türkiye

  Turkish Riviera base with a nomad visa

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• Bolzano Italy

  Bilingual Alpine city with top quality-of-life scores and some of Italy's highest rents

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• Innsbruck Austria

  Alpine city with skiing from the tram

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• Trabzon Türkiye

  Rainy Black Sea port with tea hills and the Sumela monastery

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• Fethiye Türkiye

  Turquoise Coast harbour town and base for the Lycian Way

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• Izmir Türkiye

  Liberal Aegean city with a long waterfront

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• Kuşadası Türkiye

  Aegean cruise port next to Ephesus, with a big expat retiree community

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• Kayseri Türkiye

  Business city of central Anatolia under Mount Erciyes

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• Göreme (Cappadocia) Türkiye

  Cappadocia's balloon village, all cave hotels and tourist prices

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• Adana Türkiye

  Hot, flat cotton-belt city famed for its kebab

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• Subotica Serbia

  Art Nouveau town on Serbia's border with Hungary

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• Mestia Georgia

  Svaneti's mountain hub of medieval towers, skiing and slow roads

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• Kragujevac Serbia

  Serbia's first modern capital, now a car-making city

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• Chamonix France

  Mont Blanc resort town for skiers and climbers, an hour from Geneva

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• Marmaris Türkiye

  Package-holiday harbour on the Turquoise Coast, with sailing and Rhodes a ferry away

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• Minsk Belarus

  Orderly Soviet-planned capital under sanctions and isolation

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• Sivas Türkiye

  Cold Anatolian plateau city of Seljuk monuments, now on high-speed rail

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• Skopje North Macedonia

  Cheap Balkan capital with a statue-filled centre

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• Mostar Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Old Bridge town with Balkan prices and a hot summer

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• Antakya Türkiye

  Ancient Antioch, rebuilding after the 2023 earthquakes

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• Ohrid North Macedonia

  Lake town with Byzantine churches and summer swims

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• Şanlıurfa Türkiye

  Ancient pilgrimage city near the temples of Göbekli Tepe

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• Tórshavn Faroe Islands

  One of Europe's smallest capitals, on wind-swept North Atlantic islands

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• Konya Türkiye

  Rumi's city on the Anatolian plateau, devout, flat and cheap

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• Niš Serbia

  Serbia's southern city of Roman emperors and grilled meat

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• Mersin Türkiye

  Mediterranean port city with a long seafront park

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• Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Layered history, coffee and low costs

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• Van Türkiye

  Lakeside city in Türkiye's far east, famous for its breakfast

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• Erzurum Türkiye

  High, cold eastern city with a ski mountain on its edge

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• Grodno Belarus

  Belarus's best-preserved old town, on the Neman

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• Brest (Belarus) Belarus

  Quiet Belarusian border city with a fortress and a bison forest

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• Tuzla Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Salt-lake city in northeast Bosnia with a budget airport

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• Diyarbakır Türkiye

  Kurdish heartland city inside black basalt walls on the Tigris

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• Gomel Belarus

  Belarus's second city, around a palace park on the Sozh

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• Batman Türkiye

  Oil town in southeastern Türkiye, near Hasankeyf

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• Moscow Russia

  Europe's biggest city, with a legendary metro and a wall of sanctions

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• Sochi Russia

  Russia's subtropical Black Sea resort with Olympic ski slopes

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• Banja Luka Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Leafy capital of Republika Srpska on the Vrbas river

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• Saint Petersburg Russia

  Imperial canals and white nights, behind the same closed doors as Moscow

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• Zenica Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Bosnian steel town in a green river valley

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• Nizhny Novgorod Russia

  Kremlin on the bluff where the Oka meets the Volga

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• Kazan Russia

  Tatarstan's capital, where a mosque and a cathedral share a kremlin

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• Volgograd Russia

  The former Stalingrad, strung out along the Volga

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• Rostov-on-Don Russia

  Southern port on the Don, close to the war and without an airport

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• Samara Russia

  Volga city of long beaches, rockets and Zhiguli beer

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• Pristina Kosovo

  Europe's youngest capital, cheap, caffeinated and on the euro

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• Ufa Russia

  Bashkortostan's green capital on hills above the Belaya

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• Yekaterinburg Russia

  Urals business capital on the edge of Europe and Asia

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• Krasnodar Russia

  Russia's booming southern city, warm and close to the Black Sea

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• Yakutsk Russia

  The coldest big city on earth, built on permafrost by the Lena

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• Prizren Kosovo

  Kosovo's Ottoman old town under a hilltop fortress

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• Omsk Russia

  Flat Siberian city on the Irtysh, near the Kazakh steppe

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• Astrakhan Russia

  Volga delta city with a white kremlin, close to the Caspian

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• Mitrovica Kosovo

  Kosovo's divided former mining city on the Ibar river

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• Chelyabinsk Russia

  Heavy-industry Urals city with lakes and mountains a short drive away

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• Irkutsk Russia

  Wooden Siberian city an hour from Lake Baikal

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• Arkhangelsk Russia

  Old White Sea port of wooden houses and long winters

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• Krasnoyarsk Russia

  Siberian city on the Yenisei with rock pillars in its backyard

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• Murmansk Russia

  The biggest city above the Arctic Circle, dark for weeks in winter

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• Novosibirsk Russia

  Siberia's biggest city, with a science town in the birch woods

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• Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia

  Pacific port ringed by volcanoes, reachable from the rest of Russia only by air

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• Khabarovsk Russia

  Russia's Far East hub on the Amur, seven hours ahead of Moscow

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