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261. Castel Sant’Angelo
Built as Hadrian's mausoleum in the 2nd century AD and later a papal fortress, Castel Sant'Angelo is now a national museum with sweeping rooftop views.
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Built as Hadrian's mausoleum in the 2nd century AD and later a papal fortress, Castel Sant'Angelo is now a national museum with sweeping rooftop views.
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Christianshavn's Baroque church, famous for its corkscrew spire with an external staircase that climbs to 86 metres for wide views over the harbour and the city.
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The museum Joan Miró created on Montjuïc to house his work, set in a white modernist building by Josep Lluís Sert with roof terraces and sculpture.
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A square laid out around 1700 in Friedrichstadt, framed by Schinkel's Konzerthaus and the matching French and German Churches.
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A free museum on the history of Europe, opened in 2017 by the European Parliament in the former Eastman dental building in Parc Léopold.
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A museum on Andrássy út about Hungary's fascist and communist dictatorships, housed in the former headquarters of the Arrow Cross and the ÁVH secret police.
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One of London's eight Royal Parks, with the Serpentine lake, Speakers' Corner and miles of paths between Mayfair and Kensington.
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Turkey's first museum of modern and contemporary art, reopened in 2023 in a Renzo Piano-designed building on the Karaköy waterfront.
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Spain's first modern art museum, opened in 1989, with a collection of around 10,000 works built around the sculptor Julio González.
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The French Senate's formal garden in the 6th arrondissement, with the Medici Fountain, tree-lined promenades and the famous green chairs around its central basin.
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Italy's largest science and technology museum, in a former monastery, with Leonardo's machines as models, steam trains, ships and a submarine.
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Lindt's chocolate museum on the shore of Lake Zurich in Kilchberg, with an interactive exhibition, a nine-metre chocolate fountain and chocolate-making courses.
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The EDP Foundation's riverside museum pairs Amanda Levete's curved 2016 building with the red-brick Tejo Power Station for exhibitions of art, architecture and technology.
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Sweden's museum of modern and contemporary art on Skeppsholmen, with a collection that includes Picasso, Dalí, Duchamp and Rauschenberg's Monogram.
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The highest point in central Athens at 277 metres, reached by funicular or footpath, with a chapel at the top and wide views over the city.
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Prague's grandest Art Nouveau building, opened in 1912, with Smetana Hall, the Mucha-decorated Mayor's Hall, guided tours, concerts and a famous café.
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Florence's national sculpture museum in a 13th-century fortress-palace, with Donatello's bronze David, early Michelangelo and the 1401 Baptistery competition panels.
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The small walled harbour on the eastern side of the Old Town, shaped in the 15th century and guarded by St John's Fortress and Revelin.
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The oldest standing synagogue building in Poland, a fortified Gothic and Renaissance hall on Szeroka Street that houses the Museum of Kraków's Jewish history exhibition.
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The park built for the 1972 Olympic Games, known for Frei Otto and Günter Behnisch's tent roof, a hill made of war rubble, a lake and the Olympic Tower.
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