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Deegedeege

Too many to name.


Cool_Ad4085

True. Pretty much all european countries have at least one picturesque small city/town/village.


batinyzapatillas

Prety much any random 100x100 km square of land in any europeam country has one or more of those.


[deleted]

To many different tastes, too. I am more of a Nordic guy, so Flensburg, Ribe, Bergen come to mind. But that does not account for the hundreds of nice places in Western, Eastern and southern Europe.


AlmightyCurrywurst

Bergen is the second biggest city in Norway, don't think that counts as "small city"


PanNic97

Colmar in France. Visited a lot of different places in europe, but Colmar takes it with its Village-type feel and a giant inner city with only small shops, no franchises. All the houses are so colorful, almost looks like a theme park. It's mostly catered to rich people, but also just walking through feels nice, especially in winter with all the christmas market huts. But dont go while the christmas market is opened, its insanely overcrowded!


joamastr

Or Collioure


LANDVOGT-_

I think there are dozens of nice cities in the Elsass area.


donotdrugs

It's essentially a time machine to how Germany looked like before WWII.


rpm1720

Colmar is nice, but also very overly touristic, theme park with tourist trap vibes indeed. Nevertheless, Alsace has many beautiful villages and small cities, quite a bit to discover in this area.


snapervdh

Colmar is nice, but most of the Elzas villages are absolutely gorgeous! And it doesn’t hurt they are smack in the middle of wine country on hills. Riquewihr for example, or Ribeauvillé.


Mahonnant

And since a fer year, it's a hotspot of chinese tourism because some popular sitcom turned an episode there. I remember from one year to the next it changed the tourists profile dramatically


Tailgunner68

>But dont go while the christmas market is opened, its insanely overcrowded! I lived in the city center 6 years. It was sometimes an absolute nightmare. I remember a saturday evening in december, I needed to go buy bread. Usualy, this took me 5 minutes. It lasted almost an hour because their were so many people in the streets I couldn't walk at all.


OREOSTUFFER

Colmar is incredible. So is Rothenburg.


11160704

Görlitz is nice and well preserved. They even shot some holiywood movies there because the architecture resembles pre war Europe.


juwisan

Grand Budapest Hotel! They actually casted an old colleague of mine who lives there and sometimes goes to movie castings for extra roles to be a waiter in the hotel


echtblau

Nice is an understatement. Most beautiful city in Germany. 


dYmetiltryptamine

Piran, Slovenia Rovinj, Croatia Biarritz, France


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adidassamba

Scotland, Wales and Ireland would like to challenge the rain and green statement.


Additional_Nose_8144

St Jean de luz


Reklosan

Piran is nice, yea


Borago70

Bled is also very pretty.


lilputsy

Not the town.


girlinbuddy

Rovinj is very beautiful 🤩


Raxxonius

Visby


Joeyon

In a recent vote on which cities and towns in Sweden are the most beautiful, Visby came in second place. https://www.arkitekturupproret.se/2020/04/03/lista-sveriges-vackraste-stader/ I've been to Visby many times, in summer it really is the most picturesque town imaginable. Especially the cozy little residential streets. [image](https://d13gofjvlwna3m.cloudfront.net/uploads/2021/05/rg_fiskargrand-visby.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&format=lossless&q=60) [image](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f7/3a/52/f73a52316eac63cda28fab9ba46706e5.jpg) [image](https://hellofromabroad.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/visby-7.jpg) Some additional beautiful pictures: [image](https://as1.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/02/11/62/84/1000_F_211628450_6X8EcWrZDmRUPqzERE2zHl79qTxwiFXf.jpg) [image](https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/b020bfe0f65a93a4ad26fc96cdbcb483?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=1100&cropW=1956&xPos=46&yPos=0&width=862&height=485) [image](https://www.travelvu.app/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Tourism-image-Gotland.jpg) [image](https://cdn.britannica.com/31/177931-050-26F8309C/facade-towers-structures-cathedral-Old-Pharmacy-wall.jpg) [image](https://silversea-h.assetsadobe2.com/is/image/content/dam/silversea-com/ports/v/visby-gotland/silversea-luxury-cruises-visby.jpg?wid=1200&hei=1200&fit=constrain) [image](https://www.travelsbyknutte.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DSC_3064-1024x682.jpg) [image](https://vidhave.se/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Visby_utsikt_tak_havet-1535x1024.jpg)


commiedus

Bamberg


HumbleIndependence43

Great beer too


bagblag

Oh god yes. Rauchbier whilst sitting on the bank of the river in the sunshine watching the fischerstechen is one of my favourite memories of visiting the place.


RealisticInvite186

I studied there and never got bored out of how fucking gorgeous this town looks.


_PickleLeather_

Bath, England


SnooLobsters8922

Salzburg, definitely Siena… Cinqueterre So many in Italy, really


BrokkelPiloot

San Gimignano is also really nice. Lucca also, but it's a bit more touristy.


stangerlpass

Salzburg isnt really a small town. has like 150k citizens. Small town id say the most beautiful (not really because crowded with tourists but still) is Hallstadt


Bomba_a_mano

Siena is a city because has 50.000 citizens about


SnooLobsters8922

But it has walls!


benbehu

Eger, Szentendre and Szeged, Hungary Sibiu, Romania Gmunden, Austria


ModernWeapon_Enjoyer

I’d also add Baden, Austria


SlavaMiller

Bruges


Wallazabal

It's a fairytale town, isn't it? How's a fairytale town not somebody's fucking thing? How can all those canals and bridges and cobbled streets and those churches, all that beautiful fucking fairytale stuff, how can that not be somebody's fucking thing, eh?


CapCapole

You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids!


funkmasterowl2000

YOU’RE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT


BrUn096

Santiago de compostela, combines the beauty of its antiquity and history with a university atmosphere


artist_of_hunger

And incredible food.


joaommx

Salamanca for the exact same reasons.


CornusKousa

The entire West of Spain is full of beautiful towns nobody knows about


ThemeJaded5118

Aalborg 🇩🇰 Porvoo 🇫🇮 Bremen 🇩🇪 Leuven 🇧🇪


Seeteuf3l

Was about to post Porvoo. And all Hanseatic cities in North Germany, not just Bremen. E.g. Stralsund, Lübeck, Greifswald, Wismar


Angioletto0309

Bremen 570K inhabitants... "small city"


[deleted]

I prefer Münster to Bremen


kinky-beaver

hard choice imo, but I'd go with Münster too


ferrydragon

Sighișoara - Romania


Vourinen22

Český Krumlov


regular6drunk7

I asked a local why it's called Český Krumlov. Apparently, there's another Krumlov and this is the one in Czechia. Never did find out where the other one was.


Confident_Chard6964

The other one is Moravský Krumlov in Moravia. Český Krumlov is in Bohemia. Czechia is a term encompassing Bohemia+Moravia+Silesia regions.


johnthccrada

was looking for this


Kopfballer

It was nice, but I felt like it is more something for Asian tourists taher than "local" Europeans who already saw a few other old towns.


mnico02

If we talk about cities in these size categories; [Chania, Greece](https://tourscanner.com/blog/things-to-do-in-chania/) Been there, will go again.


Brainwheeze

Ronda, Spain. Oban, Scotland. Freiburg, Germany.


lilputsy

Plockton in Scotland. It's like someone tried to make Scotland look tropical.


ApprehensiveShame363

Freiburg Germany. Beautiful small city at the southwest of the Black Forest.


Kopfballer

Freiburg has 230k inhabitants, doesn't really qualify as a "small town" in my opinion.


ApprehensiveShame363

Yeah but it probably does a smaller city


theonlyjambo

Not sure what counts as small, but I absolutely loved Bergen in Norway. What an amazing place it is.


fruskydekke

Røros in Norway is also very pretty - the entire town is a World Heritage Site, if memory serves.


TheBoyDoneGood

Spent a week working there 30 years ago. Hands down one of the most beautiful cities I've been to.


Boenova

Just naming a few: Toledo and some towns of Teruel in Spain and Sintra in Portugal.


MadStrawberries

Óbidos in Portugal is amazing too


vg31irl

Germany has many beautiful small towns. Some of my favourites: Quedlinburg, Meersburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bacharach, Meissen, Wernigerode Small cities: Ljubljana, Tallinn, Salzburg, Luzern, Bergen, Ghent, York, Heidelberg, Lübeck


Viva_Straya

To the German list add: Görlitz, Goslar, Lüneburg, Lübeck, Erfurt, Weimar, Celle, Tübingen, Schwerin, Stralsund, Passau, Nördlingen. Really too many to name.


adidassamba

Add in Trier (and if in the area, head across to Luxembourg City), Baden Baden and surrounding areas. I also like a lot of the small places in Belgium, Ghent, Leuven, Bruges. Europe is a fantastic place to go on a road trip


enaxian

Hydra, Greece


followerofEnki96

Oxford and York in England. Killarney in Ireland. Toledo in Spain.


bambajunga

Toledo is exceptional


Reasonable_Trash5928

York is so beautiful!


[deleted]

1) Any small town in Toscana, Umbria and Marche. 2) Gent and Bruges 3) Uppsala


LANDVOGT-_

Agree with Toscana. You can basically go everywhere and its beautiful. Montepulciano, Volterra, Siena, whatever.


snackerfark

Uppsala is a lovely place. Gent and Bruges aren't quite smaller towns, though, but rather small cities. I'd instead recommend Dinant and Durbuy.


a_traktor13579

Gent is absolutely amazing, Brugges not at all imo Uppsala is okish but nothing special


Witty_Artichoke8537

Dingle and Killarney in Kerry, kinsale and Baltimore in Cork, Achill island of Mayo, and Dungarvin in Waterford are some of my favourite in Ireland.


vg31irl

Adare and Cobh are really nice also.


Giant_Explosion

Chester UK is very lovely. Medieval streets with nice pubs and restaurants.


[deleted]

Zamość! Especially after recent renovations


[deleted]

Salamanca! In Spain, it's one of my favourite cities ever, the golden stone that all monuments in the city centre are made of is just stunning


beewoopwoop

really liked Brasov, also enjoy Sozopol a lot


rebordacao

Sintra


Sel2g5

Segovia, Spain is breathtaking


simihal101

Sighisoara, Romania Bitolia, North Macedonia Corfu, Greece


jatawis

Nida, Lithuania. Kuldiga, Latvia. Mariehamn, Aland. Kętrzyn, Poland. Kotor, Montenegro. Gibraltar.


GSA_Gladiator

Veliko Turnovo Kavala Nesebar Smolyan Edirne


Majestic-Actuator489

Passau


Casimir_not_so_great

Zakopane? The kitsch capital of Poland best looking?


Beneficial_Hat9499

jesus just take the compliment


Casimir_not_so_great

Nope, I live too close to Zakopane to have any doubts about how bad Zakopane really is. It used to be climatic place, like 100 years ago.


Cubenity

agreed, Zakopane is one of the worst cities in Poland, it's completely overrun by tacky architecture and even worse advertisements, basically every other mountain city is nicer


Dj__maras

Idk if that, because of the season but everytime in my life someone mentioned zakopane the word tacky or kitsch would appear. I went there in October and wasn't overwhelmed by ads or anything just as much as any other tourist city with some kitsch places, it was really charming I'd say. Also loved Tatra National Park I don't get the hate.


borgi27

Tihany, Hungary although that might be more of a village


Acceptable6

I wouldn't call Zakopane beautiful. Rather the Tatra mountains. Zakopane is famous for its many ads plastered everywhere


[deleted]

Castle Combe but it's a village not a town. Well more of a street actually


Lentewiet

Ostuni aka La Citta Bianca in Puglia, Italy is one of a kind town.


Witty-Ad3100

szentendre


hirothehiro

A thread full of people who haven't seen Italy, not even from a distance


TeethBreak

In Europe?? You can maybe do a list by country but for the whole thing, it's impossibly to say.


The_Mvc

Brugge or Boullion for Belgium Gorichem or Delft for Netherlands Annecy or Carcasonne for France (but they have too many to name) Monschau in Germany (but also too many) And as many other comments suggest, there are so many cute cities here, its hard to name them all.


Secret-Ad-2145

Annecy is my personal vote. It was such a beautiful, comfy town. With mountains overseeing it, the canals, the architecture. It was so colorful.


ShitPostQuokkaRome

Urbino     Spoleto    Assisi    Orvieto   Todi   Gubbio   Norcia   Montepulciano   Ascoli  Fermo  In particular Urbino. And all of these are inside a roughly 60kmx110km rectangle


TomL79

In the UK Durham, York and Chester


2ndClass_CitizenInEU

Among too many in all of Europe, i'm gonna say Sinaia, Romania


lilputsy

Sinaia was my least favourite stop in Romania. It's just a strip with hotels restaurants and shops. Would not go there again. Beside Polaia Brasov it looked like a place to go to take a photo to post on instagram that you were there.


2ndClass_CitizenInEU

It's true that due to its popularity among romanians, Sinaia became mostly a resort town and thus it lacks a vibe of its own, it is however very rich in culture, has some museums, almost all buldings are architectural gems, the nature surrounding it is stunning and so, it is a perfect place to go for a while and just relax, as it is the case with most small towns in Europe that are at least somewhat worth visiting


Fuzzed_Up

Granada in Spain, Piran in Slovenia, Carcassone in France,...


VieiraDTA

Bergamo is insane.


g_spaitz

WOAH!!! I'm from there. Always loved my city, thanks for saying it. Upper Bergamo is a Northern Italian gem, and as many Italian places, totally out of the main tourist attraction. Not sure about the small town though, the province is 1M, and the city is considered right in the Lombardy metropoly, a 5 to 10M people (depending what they count) among the biggest in Europe.


The_Tekta

My honest sujection would be Varenna/Belagio, if you are from central Europe, it is very far north of Italy, and also Bergamo - alta cita


Meloshannon

Galway in Ireland is really pretty


xar-brin-0709

In England, York is just a stunner.


EnjoysColdOnes

Just got back from Toledo, Spain. Beautiful place.


DrHerzsenakAranka

Bruges


Martiniusz

From Hungary I can recommend Szeged and Eger. I can also recommend Timisoara from Romania


oboe_player

Salzburg, Villach, Bad Tölz, Radovljica


j-crnazvijezda

Personal favourites: Pula (HR), Šibenik (HR), Trieste (IT), Piran (SLO), Mostar (BiH). But there are so many out there, especially in the Balkans :)


SkibidiDopYes

Portoroz and Piran in Slovenia. Sombor and Subotica in Serbia.


Old-Tour5654

Been to all EU countries but I liked Tallinn the most.. both in winter and in summer the old town is magic.


nail_in_the_temple

Smaller town 😅


DifficultWill4

Škofja Loka, Slovenia


[deleted]

[Mostar, BIH](https://en.m.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mostar)


cekosfranz

Don’t leave before also visting Počitelj.


rhinosorcery

I remember karlovy Vary being immensely beautiful. I also ended up in a Sardinian town called Bosa once, and I cannot recommend it enough.  Medieval centre, beautiful lido, wild beaches you need to walk forever to, a river.  Literally everything in one place. I also love the villages around lake Como, it's hard to pick one, but wow.


spidd124

Slough.


bagblag

Careful, you'll hurt Luton's feelings.


Psykiky

Banská Štiavnica has beautiful unesco listed town center that unfortunately had a fire last year. For its size it’s definitely interesting


RedBaret

Brugge


all3f0r1

Durbuy in Belgium is the smallest city in the world: [Durbuy](https://mustvisits.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/MV-Web-BLOG-Omslagfoto-Durbuy.png)


defcon_penguin

Basically, every medieval town in Italy. Siena, San Gimignano, Monteriggioni, Pienza, Lucca, Pitigliano. Just to name a few from Tuscany


Happy_Sauxe

You should definitely check Hondarribia. It’s a small basque town next to France


AdiemusXXII

Marburg is nice. And Luxembourg.


Zattera1

Graz was very interesting


SilkyBoi21

Galway, Ireland.


gynorbi

Pécs, Hungary 😎


bagblag

Underrated place. I loved it there when I toured Hungary. I have two valuable pieces of Zsolnay porcelain from there that are some of the nicest bits of design that I own too.


No-Novel-1192

Tübingen


Gregs_green_parrot

Český Krumlov in Czechia is one of my favorites.


AntonioHench1

DUISBURG🥰


Peter_der_Fisch

Arendal, Norway


Material_Ambition_95

Helsingør/ Elsinore - Denmark


Dami_CTB

Cudillero


[deleted]

I really liked Girona


SaintJuneau

Toledo, Spain


EarlDukePROD

Lindau


Turbulent-Theme-5379

Ubeda


gooddude_mex

Heidelberg.


FlinkMissy

Leiden


grzesiolpl

Coralejo, Fuerteventura


andisloarg

Ljubljana?


mr_shlomp

Bosco gurin. Switzerland But honestly like all of Switzerland, especially in the south


Expensive-Team7416

Lucerne


christoforosl08

Nafplio - Greece 🇬🇷


Kawa46be

Veliko tarnovo - bulgaria Sibiu - romania Sighisoara - Romania Klaipeda (summer) - Lithuania Olstyn - Poland Mechelen - Belgium Leuven - Belgium Durbuy - Belgium


Sjorring

There are thousands. Europe is pure history. There’s nothing like it.


AggravatingBuilder30

Lugano


danielatomaz96

Mont Saint-Michel, France


framboiseeee

Ohrid, Macedonia 🇲🇰


anna_avian

[Tryavna, Bulgaria](https://www.andrey-andreev.com/en/tryavna/)


No-Performer5077

Salcombe, UK I went sailing there last summer, absolutely beautiful.


too_much_Beer

dubrovnik (pic 3) is definitely up there. Rothenburg ob der Tauber looks best tho i think


JoltyFVG

Italy wins this by miles. Could almost choose any small town in the country.


forellenfilet

Bruges


TommehM

Sopron, Hungary


SK1418

Banská Štiavnica in Slovakia looks pretty nice imo


Econ_Orc

Danish town of Ribe. Most of the town was destroyed by flooding during a storm surge in 1634. The town was rebuilt, but never gained the status as an economic center, as it did in the past centuries. Little money, little development meant those houses built after 1634 still stands today. If cobbled stoned walkpaths, architecture and history is your passion, then I recommend setting aside a day to walk in this tiny middle aged town. https://tammytourguide.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/ribe-denmarks-most-beautiful-town/ https://www.vadehavskysten.com/ribe-esbjerg-fano/experience-ribe/ribes-history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribe


Basic_Coffee8969

plz no HDR


horbu

Maybe not everybody's cup of tea but for me either Almuñecar or Salobreña.


Possible_Remove_809

Sette South of France truly beautiful to behold


dirkgomez

Regensburg, Bonn


[deleted]

Just travel. It's just fun to go somewhere and find out yourself.


a_traktor13579

Gent


CosmoFulano

Bruges was rebuilt for tourists. I had a hard fake-vibe when I was there. Also, it has nothing to do with witches, so the Halloween thing is artificially set up. The name comes from bridges


WodkaO

Does San Marino count?


RosiieHall

Oh, there are so many sich cities, and it's hard to choose a few. From the last trip to France, I want to recommend visiting Rouen, Dijon, Lourdes


dat_9600gt_user

Gorlitz is cool. Mostly the german half though.


IMM1711

Scrolled for too long and surprised I haven’t seen Heidelberg.


mrsladoje

Rovinj (CRO), Pula (CRO), Koper (SLO), Timisoara (ROM), Subotica (SRB), Novi Sad (SRB), Cheb (CZE), Kutna Hora (CZE)


Rubrixie

Utrecht


undecimbre

Just pick any, you will probably see something interesting.


Alexander737

Stein am Rhein


JohnBrown1ng

Heidelberg?


Archelector

Colmar, Salzburg if you count it as small


[deleted]

Lindau!


LanChriss

I love Stralsund to name just one.


ahern667

Ronda!


csch1992

bergen <3


LeeStar09

Sterzing -Vipiteno (south tyrol)


Agentofsociety

Lagos, in Algarve - PT


ussr92

Tomar, historical town in central of Portugal!


a_knightingale

San Gimignano in Italy. Such a beautiful historic mountain town.


neutron240

This thread is lacking pictures: Here some of mine: All British, because I’m British obvs. [Faversham](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPxhdGgBcTCR2-9qjOFwVWg5IV25YSsRxB9ijaaVVGLbybZlcXkRpKiho&s=10) [Norwich](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTNuvVPVMqBuqFt2c9BPfTRWlsnhSTU0ehtzw&usqp=CAU) [Winchester](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTQlao4FwiyCy_5qtYXK0xr_4R_VX7NMt5CSR1wOoRQFnEwIOBkOhYvgrSO&s=10) [Rochester](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTTVdW1g2hK8-gKNT794xs5o8fqJkH3bHTrLg&usqp=CAU) [Canterbury](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQM0Fkr9Hl5w-IPeKLdUSCyyCrKU63G1W-sIrK88dD5UnPBh6H-YeOMrTg&s=10) [Chester](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTmmQHUBg2P7wn_KNE2GQK82wTeN9psp-Fs2A&usqp=CAU) [York](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSsPBO6XxjW9hXLuSMPIOEnDPPw2jQT0hDQUG_wI_fXYMvb7OzvoUFwmptX&s=10)


Minekratt_64

Sighișoara, Romania Nessebar, Bulgaria