What are the most beautiful places you have visited in Europe?

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Prohonice Park , just outside Prague, quite lovely, was there last November and will visit again when I am back in Prague in May.

Dolomite Mountains in Italy

The Duomo in Milan Italy

Brussels downtown skyline with the historic Town Hall and the Basilique (church). The church is particularly stunning at night when its illuminated. Belgian hot chocolate is worth a stop on its own though ;-)

Egyptian and Greek sections of the British Museum (I'm sure other areas are stunning as well, this was all we had time to visit during our short time at the museum though.)

And of course the Colosseum in Rome and Stonehenge in the UK.

Venice, Venice, Venice.

Also loved (well, everywhere) Strasbourg, France; Bath, UK; Ravello, Italy;

Venice
Lauterbrunnen Valley
Cinque Terre
Beynac/La Roque-Gageac
Bruges
Rome
Dingle Peninsula
Ronda
Capri
Etc......

The sight of the Zugspitz at dawn and at sunset that you see in Garmisch. The sea on the coast of Ostende in Belgium at sunset. Looking out over the rolling hills and fields of wildflowers from the early Celtic settlement in Glauberg. Sunset from the top of the Main Tower in Frankfurt. This blows me away every time I see it and it is always different, but gorgeous.

I've never visited a place in Europe that I didn't like.

Most beautiful to me are places that I must return to as often as possible:

Rome
Amalfi Coast
Segesta (view of temple from the road)
Matera
Orvieto
Paestum

Annecy France

Honfleur France

Brittany Coast at Cap Frehel, Point du Raz, and Ile de Brehat

Volterra Italy

Isle of Capri Italy

English garden in Munich

View from Mt Pilatus Switzerland

Zermatt Switzerland and view of the Matterhorn

Cesky Krumlov

Salzkammergut near Salzburg Austria

Monet's garden at Giverny

Schonbrunn palace Vienna

Venice Italy

The sight of the Eiffel Tower sparkling at night

And many many more!

Chapel Bridge at sunset Luzern, Switzerland
Cruise on Lake Luzern surrounded by mountains
View from top of Eiffel Tower at night
Sunset on Seine, Paris
Old Town, Alicante, Spain
There is no place I have been to in Europe that I don't love.

For myself the most beautiful sights in Europe are The Greens on Lahinch country club, the fairways at Ballybunion, the sand traps at Ballylifin, and every pub in Ireland.
God life it gets no better than the sight of pin flag fluttering surrounded by a sea of rich green carpet and the Atlantic Ocean sitting in background.My heart gets racing just thinking of a crab cakes and a pint of Guinness at the local pub after a round of golf in Ireland.
You've made my eyes water.
Doug

What a great topic, Brendon. Thanks for the post. I agree with many of the posts already made. For me:
Halstadt, Austria
Ronda, Spain
Monamvasia, Greece
(really anywhere in Greece outside of Athens)
Lauterbrunnen. Switzerland
Orvietto, Italy
Dover Castle, England (for the history)
Mont Ste Michele, France
Loire Valley Chateaus
(hoping to add new favorite memories from Slovenia and Croatia in a few months).

Enjoy!
Kaye

Should I divide it into towns and nature? No, because sometimes they go together, for example Hallstatt. Venice, Cinque Terre, Amalfi Coast, Lake Morskie Oko in Tatra mountains in Poland, Santorini, Split - lit promenade by the sea is magic in the evening, Dubrovnik, Cesky Krumlov, Prague - especially the view from the Old Town toward Charles Bridge and Hradcany Castle - the most magic at night when lit. I am sure I shortchanged some places by not including them but these were the first coming to my mind.

Dingle Peninsula and Ring of Kerry, Ireland
Venice
Stonehenge (walking through the stones with small group, early misty morning, no one else around)
Eiffel Tower sparkling light show, and Bastille Day fireworks show.
Coliseum, Rome
Orvieto, Italy
Provins, France (medieval walled city)
Loire Valley chateaus, France
Westminster Abbey, London
Palace of Versailles (particularly the Queen's Hamlet)
Ile St. Louis and de la Cite, Paris
Trinity College Library, Dublin
The French Riviera

We have been lucky to see mind fulfilling scenery on our trips to Europe. Above all, there are two that will forever stand out in my mind.

In the small city of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria we were walking along an old street and there was a church with the entrance just off the sidewalk. We walked into it and entered an Orthodox church that looked like it was centuries old, and it was as we found out later. The moment was so moving my wife gave some tears to the church and we found a place to sit. It was a week day and worshipers were coming and going as they said their prayers and paid homage to the saints. We were taken by the experience and stayed for an hour or so. The whole experience was akin to going back four or five hundred years. During our stay in the city we visited the church several more times.

In the Ukraine city of Lviv we hired an English speaking driver to take us to a village north of there where my father-in-law's relatives came from. This farm village of wattle fences and painted houses was literally at the end of the road. We found the church and as it was Sunday the faithful filled the church and a good part of the churchyard. After observing for some time and taking a few photos the driver found the cemetary which was overgrown with oak trees, bushes and flowers. My wife went wandering around through all the flora to see if she could find anything that might offer a clue to her family origin. The driver and I talked with each other just inside the cemetary fence. I decided to walk up the trail between the fence and the headstones and right there in front of me was a rather large upright stone with my father-in-law's family name on it in cyrillic.

These two experiences were the most beautiful I have had in Europe and they will go with me to the grave.

The Dolomites
The English Lake District (if I had to choose only one place in the world to go, this would be it!)
Fountains Abbey on a spring day
The wheat fields in the grounds of Versailles
Salzburg in winter
The interior of the Pantheon in Rome
Venice at night from a vaparetto or any boat
Sitting on the quay of Isle St. Louis looking at the back of Notre Dame at sunset
St. Chapelle in Paris on a sunny day
Pezenas, France
The harbor and promenade in Coulliore, France
The lakefront promenade in Vevey, Switzerland
The view from Lac Blanc above Chamonix
St. Guihelm le Desert in the Cevennes

Just driving through Devon on country roads -- the wonderful greenness of the rolling countryside.

Like others here this is hard to narrow down. Here are a few of my favorites
Oslo fiord
Salzburg during a light snow
Highlands of Scotland- especially around Aviemore- both in summer and winter; and Glen Coe and the Great Glen
Kew Gardens, London- both summer and winter

And while not in Europe---- The Black Mountains of Australia, and Sydney- both the city and the surrounding beaches/bays/coves

Goodness it's hard to pick the very best, but here's a start:

Hallstatt
Venice
The view from the gondola between Chamonix and Italy
Orkney
The ochre walk in Roussillon
The views during a Dordogne canoe trip

Many places have choked me up with their beauty, and my pure happiness at being privileged enough to see them.

There are so many, but the first ones to pop in my mind were:
The fjords in Norway
The view of Stockholm from Fjällgatan
Plitvice National Park in Croatia
The Amalfi Coast

How could I forget the fields of hyacinths and tulips in the Netherlands? Stunning and it smelled so heavenly. Keukenhof was also a treat, but the fields stretching out, blocks of color after color were something else.

Venice!
Mykonos,Greece
Sistine Chapel
Eiffel Tower at night
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Salzburg,Austria....
Ok, I could keep going and going and...

Winchester Cathedral/Historic Winchester and the countryside to the north, England
St. Chappelle and Notre Dame in Paris, France
The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain
St. Peter’s and the Forum in Rome, Italy
The roof of the Milan Cathedral, Italy
The historic parts of Siena, Italy and Venice, Italy
Historic Istanbul, especially the Sultanahmet area and the views from the Bosphorus
The Cappadocia region of Turkey – especially the Ihlara Valley, the Eski Gumusler (monastery) at Nigde, the Church of St. John at Gulsehir, and the fairy chimneys around Uchisar and Goreme.
Villefranche sur Mer, France
Toledo, Spain
The views of the Cinque Terre, Italy from the water and the upper hiking trails
The views from the castles at Anavarza and Kozan in the Adana region of Turkey
The views from the Zugspitze near Garmish, Germany and Garmish-Partenkirchen itself

Thanks for all the great ideas! A lot of ideas were added, so I thought I'd add a few more unique ones:

Kravice Waterfalls outside Mostar (and Mostar itself), Pantheon in Rome, St. Peter's, Venice at about 6am on a summer morning, Al Hambra, wandering the Marais and Mont Martre in Paris.

I'm hoping to add Lake Bled, the Karst and Plitvice this summer to this list...as I'm hoping they will not disappoint!

To add to the list the hauntingly beautiful: Orthodox Church in Sarajevo, Jewish Cemetery in Prague, Picasso's Guernica at the Reina Sofia, Pere Lachasse Cemetery, and the chance to see an original work by Egon Schiele-anywhere really.

I'm going to take a different tack here. Rather than going with the most grand and stunning, I'm going to pick those more quiet, subtle touches.

Hiking through the gently rolling hills of the Haspengouw region of Limberg provice in Belgium on a spring day. The fruit trees are in bloom, everything looks green, you can see the distant steeples of various villages on the horizon, livestock roam through the fields, and you run across random pieces of outdoor art (I love the way they scatter this stuff all over the place in Europe). See this article on Slate for an example.

The play of low horizon sunlight on a winter's day on the Swedish ski resort of Åre. Imagine the pink, orange and purple colors of a sunset shining down on snow-capped mountains for several hours during the day.

Sunrise in the Alps, at any time of year.

The brilliant blue of the Baltic sea contrasted against the white chalk cliffs of Rügen, and the green and yellow fields of above.

Plitvice National Park, Croatia; Slovenian Alps; Lake Country, England; Bruges, Belgium; Highlands of Scotland; the tiny crevice "gardens" of the Burren in Ireland.

Salzburg, Venice

For a large area, Ireland and Northern Ireland. For a small area Murren and the Lauterbrunnen Vally in Switzerland.

The Zillertal in Austria, the village of Finkenberg in particular.
Berchtesgaden area.
The Val Venosta/Vinschgau area and all the castles, esp. Churburg Castle/Castel Coira.
The Italian Dolomites
Wenegen, Switzerland

In Paris, along the Seine after dark.
In misty Venice before sunrise.
Spring wildflowers carpeting the hills on one side, the variegated blues of the Med on the other, in Sicily
The Nasrid Palaces of the Alhambra, especially at night

The city center of Budapest. I loved it the first time. The second time, I looked around me and audibly said, to no one in particular, "Good God, this city is beautiful."

I literally caught my breath as I entered Sagrada Familia. Guernica did the same.

The views from the vista off Rua Dom Pedro V in the Bairro Alto are difficult to top.

Switzerland. Just about anywhere, just look around.

The British countryside can be quite breathtaking.

#1) Lauterbrunnen Valley in Switzerland
#2) A winter's drive through the Carpathian Mountains and countryside in northern Romania, between Vatra Dornei and Bistrita.
#3) The view from Mount Pilatus above Lucerne, Switzerland on a clear summer's day.
#4) The village port and hike to the lighthouse in Portofino, Italy
#5) A bike ride through the Cotswold countryside - fairytale time warp of country lanes and thatched roofs.
#6) Sapte scari (the Seven Steps), mountain and waterfall hike with boardwalks and ladders, outside of Timisu de Jos, Romania (about 8 miles south of Brasov)

Santorini--views of the caldera from anywhere and back to the towns on the rim.

The Scottish Highlands: Glen Affric, Torridon, Loch Curuisk, Isle of Skye, beaches on Harris and Lewis, Applecross. Loch Broome from the hills above Ullapool; the view east from Kildrummy Castle. Queen's View in Perthshire.

Chamonix--views from the balcony walk.

Edinburgh and Stirling Castles.

Annecy, France--all the canals.

The fells in Cumbria near Gamblesby and Melmerby.

Ring of Brodgar on Orkney. The view of St. Peter's Kirk and graveyard as you come over the hill from the west on a sunny day when the daisies are blooming.

Pam

Too many places to list( most places have their own beauty) .. but have to agree with poster who listed the entire country of Switzerland.. even in the cities the views are amazing..

The only place I must admit I did not find "beautiful" was Athens.. sorry.. big old grimy city .. smog.. that's what I saw.. maybe its changed in last 25 years..

The caveat is that there are still a number of places in Europe I have not visited.

But these are the three places that stand out for me:

Venice, the Amalfi coast, Salzburg.

I note that all three have been already been mentioned several times.

Another vote for Venice.

N.E. Catalonia: Cadaques-Port Lligat, Empuries, Peratallada

The view from Letna Park towards Prague's Old Town across the Voltava

A quiet meal at one of the cafes at Place du Marche de Sainte-Catherine

This is a fun list so read so far.
I have not been anywhere near as many places as other folks, and have to agree with the aforementioned list of places that I have been to. All are lovely!
One more I would add is the stunning view as we turned the bend in the road and happened upon the Duomo facade in the pitch of night in Florence. I also have memorable views of some locations from the sky as we flew over (i.e., English Channel shoreline and white cliffs, the Alps, Mount Vesuvius [Mount Vesuvius was actually quite amazing from that vantage point]).

I'm surprised that Iceland doesn't get its own category on this site. It is incredible how much pristine and diverse natural beauty is in the country. Picking the best part of Iceland is impossible because each area should be a reason to visit: the waterfalls, glaciers, lagoons, fjords, black sand beaches, mountains, desert, hot springs, old mossy lava fields, quaint little towns and fishing villages, the midnight sun in summer, and the northern lights in winter. And I haven't even touched on the wonderful people or the horses yet. The country has a lot of variety to offer in such a small area.

Often my wife and I want to explore somewhere new rather than return to where we've been, but with Iceland, we talk about when we will go back.

Grossglockner High Alpine Highway is the most beautiful drive I've ever experienced.

It's a toll road south of Zell-am-Zee, Austria that goes over the second highest mountain in Europe.

The road ends up in Lienz, Austria on the Italian border.
It's easy to go west on Hwy. E66 to A22 (motorway) which leads you back north through the Brenner Pass into Innsbruck.
The Grossglockner's the most beautiful place I've ever seen in the world.

One of the highlights for me is Beaulieu in the New Forest, UK! Staying there on one of the campsites, guess was Roudhill in a little tent between free roaming horses, loved it! But reading the posts again here I totaly agree with Anita: The interior of the Pantheon in Rome.

Correction about Grossglockner: it is the highest mountain of Austria but by far not the second highest mountain of Europe. Summit of Grossglockner is 3797 meters above sea level. There are many mountains over 4000 meters in Switzerland and France and I am not even counting Caucasus which is considered in Europe where you can find mountains over 5000 meters.

For me, it would have to either be the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland or Abbaye Notre-Dame de Senanque near Gordes in Southern France.

Being out on the peaceful lake of Konigssee in the early morning, absorbing the joy and beauty of being surrounded by the Berchtesgadener National Park.

Enjoying a walk with the evening lights of Paris along the Seine River and bridges.

Laying on the hillside in the Burren of Ireland listening to the wind, feeling the grass and smelling the ocean all at the same time.

The panorama of the Brandenburg Gate and being able to see unity and peace despite Europe's turbulent past.

Sitting on a bench at Giverny and watching the light dance off the Lily Pond.

I echo the Switzerland thought. Almost all of Bernese Oberland was gorgeous, esp. Wengen, Mannlichen, Murren, Schillthorn..
Promenade in Montreux
St. Peters in Vatican.
Colosseum and Pantheon in Rome.
Siena
Florence

Waking up in the morning after a rainy night time arrival in Varenna, overlooking a sunny crystal clear Lake Como, oh how magnificent! Or how about the treacherous drive along the Amalfi Coast between Sorrento and Ravello, with those sheer drop-offs and cliff-hugging homes along the way. Then there's the view from above Vernazza on the trail to Monterosso in the Cinque Terre. Can you tell my favorites seem to include Italy and overlooking water?

For me, hands down Paris. I love it, warts and all.

After 8 trips to Europe:

Florence in general and San Marco in particular
Sistine Chapel
Sainte Chappelle-looking forward to going to Vivaldi concert there next month
Santorini (what's with sites that start with S?)
Westminster Abbey PM Christmas service
Palaces in Russia, such as Hermitage
British Museum-the whole world is literally there-both past and present(nationalities of visitors)
Not in Europe but reminds me of Europe-visited in fall with beautiful walk from metro station-Medieval museum associated with Met in NY-thinking Cluny will be similar
Rothenberg
Fussen, Germany-picturesque and love the local museum
Nauplia
View of Hagia Sophia from hotel room in Istanbul
Cable car trip to top of Mt. Pilatus-complete with sound of cowbells below

Font du Gaume cave in the Dordogne (the memory 25 years later still takes my breath away!)
Semur-en-Auxois
Cappodoccia and Pamukkale
Zermatt and the view of the Matterhorn
Venice at night
The Lake District in England
Dun Aengus in Ireland
Riga
Varenna and the Lake Como area
The Cinque Terre
The Amsterdam canals and bridges
Paris (anywhere, anytime!)

Wow -- what a trip down memory lane. Thanks for asking!

Loch Broom and the Ullapool Hills.

Beaches on Harris.

St. Peter's Churchyard and Church on South Ronaldsay. This is where my grandfather's relatives are buried and there is a stone there for him and his four brothers. The first time I saw it was on July morning when I was 23 years old and my sister and I were with Marjorie who lived on the island and had know my grandfather and some of the brothers. We were in her mini and came over a hill and there it was sitting on the hillside surrounded with daisies with the blue sky and sea behind it. We were stunned. We took a picture of the stone though and not the view. I've been back since and the sky wasn't as blue and it wasn't July so no daisies. But, the stone was still there 25 years later and it had a beautiful thick coat of lichens attesting to the purity and high quality of the air. I hope to go back again--maybe in July. I used google street view to look at it now, and someone has trimmed the grass and it all looks much too tidy.

I could not find a photo on the web, but here's a drawing and description.

Murren, Switzerland and Cassis ,France. I'm partial to mountains and cliffs.

Paris, Paris, Paris. I just came back from a 2.5 week visit and I can't count the number of times I thought to myself "there is so much beauty here" . . . a painting, a church facade, a shop window, a bridge, a doorway, a fountain, flowers in a window box . . . something different and beautiful every step of the way.

A selection of "very pretty sights" I've visited, in no particular order of importance/beauty:

• Grimsel glacier (Switzerland)
• Marken peninsula - town+outskirts (Netherlands)
• Kröller-Müller museum and sculpture park (Netherlands)
• Greek temple ruins in Agrigento (Italy)
• Gronergat viewpoint up from Zermatt (Switzerland)
• Canary Wharf, London (UK)
• Monte Perdido and Ordesa (Spain)
• Mt Etna (Italy)

Some of my favorites places are:
The view of the Ligurian Sea after hiking from Riomaggiore up (way up!) to Volastra.
Rome lit up at night.
Venice in the early morning.
The view from Aiguille du Midi on a clear day.
Annecy France.

Side note: With all the beautiful places I have seen while traveling in Europe, I still feel very blessed to live in such a beautiful part of the world. I think most Europeans would be in awe of the Pacific NW. The beautiful beaches, mountains and the gorge just to name a few. I really do have the opportunity to experience the best of both worlds!

The Story: PART ONE

Early fall of 2001 my wife and I planned a trip to Europe. Times were still such that trips had to be fairly short and fairly inexpensive. I had always feared that we would get someplace and have a miserable time so I had been trying to do at least two dissimilar locations; one primary and one as a backup. This trip would be 4 days in Vienna and 2 days in Budapest. I had researched Vienna pretty well, but left the states knowing nothing about Budapest. Remember, this is 2001 and there wasn’t much published on Budapest so I was a little nervous about crossing “behind the Iron Curtain”. Yes, the revolutions of 1989 for all intents and purposes had put an end to the Warsaw Pact but this was only a dozen years later, the internet was still new and a lot of the world was still trying to determine how they fit in the greater puzzle. Hungary only joined NATO in 1999 and the EU in 2004; and to this date is not on the Euro. Enough history.

Vienna is a great city, but for some reason my wife and I didn’t get comfortable there. The morning of the third day we looked at each other and simultaneously we both said; “let’s go someplace else”. I called the hotel in Budapest (The Opera K&K) and changed the reservation for arrival that day, asked for a decent place for dinner, so we could at least have that much planned, and then headed for the train station.

An hour or so out of Vienna the train stopped and we were boarded by “gentlemen” in black uniforms carrying automatic weapons. My wife began to panic. One of the soldiers approached and began demanding something in the most unintelligible language I had ever heard. I grabbed my wife’s passport and ticket and together with mine shoved them in front of the soldier. Of course, it was just a document check. Good G-d, where were we going? Shortly after getting comfortable again, out the train window we caught sight of a statue of a Turul and the tenseness began to grow once again.
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We arrived at Keleti Station in Budapest about an hour before sunset. Remember this was the Fall and the sun begins to set early in that part of the world. Keleti is a magnificent station, and would have appeared so then if they had ever taken the time too clean to coal suet off the walls and ceilings. Good G-d, I have taken my wife into the heart of communist hell.

The station has since seen much cleaning and is a beautiful station: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Budapest_East_Station_2.jpg/800px-Budapest_East_Station_2.jpg

Upon arrival we took our excessive luggage and headed for the front entrance of the station. Upon walking outside it was a beautiful, cool, sunny afternoon and ………….. wait; a short, stocky, mustached, stereotypical communist looking gentleman was grabbing at the luggage. Crap, what the hell have I done! How do we get out of this! Before I could react, and to my astonishment, a taxi drives up over the curb and onto the side walk. The driver, a young kid, gets out and runs to our rescue. He and the commie begin arguing, arms waving as they get up in each other’s faces. Then as abruptly as it had begun it ended. Hell, it was two cabbies fighting over a fare; me! We chose the kid because I thought that if needed I could win a fight with him.

The Story: PART TWO

The kid knew maybe six words in English but since I didn’t really know where we were I wanted him to just drive around for a while. He responded to with phrases like; “no tour guide” until I guess he realized we were paying him to goof off. Once he understood this was on the meter he was happy to oblige.

He drove us through amazing neighborhoods, down great avenues and along the banks of the Danube. This was a very interesting city; much more so than our impression of Vienna. Then we crossed the Chain Bridge, and began climbing higher and higher as it got darker and darker. I suggested maybe we should head for the hotel, but he either didn’t understand or didn’t want to understand. Darker, higher, more remote. Now pitch dark and I knew the outcome. We were being hijacked for a mugging and robbery. Of course, we were behind the Iron Curtain and these were commies.

As predicted he pulled to the side along a deserted stretch of road and ordered us out of the car. We did as directed. Then he demanded we turn and face the car. I was beginning to judge distances, watching his hand movements for a weapon and sizing up the options to fight back or flee. We turned as directed. Now before I can explain what came next you have to see what we had sitting before us:
http://fabiushotel.hu/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/budapest_by_night.jpg And if you have read this far, this is the answer to the question.....................

All the events and worries of the last 15 minutes melted away and I knew our only mistake was not planning enough time for Budapest. Looking straight ahead, sort of stunned by the vista, I told my wife, “we are coming back”. Her confused response was, “we just got here”.

That comfort we couldn’t find in Vienna came instantly in Budapest. Here were a people with values and norms very, very similar to those I grew up with in the 60’s and 70’s in the U.S. I felt right at home in the most unfamiliar familiarity imaginable.

Future trips to Europe became “Something” and Budapest. Moscow and Budapest, Jerusalem and Budapest, Slovakia and Budapest, England and Budapest, Paris and Budapest, Bulgaria, Romania, and on and on…… We returned so many times in the ensuing years that we finally decided that we might want to find a place to call our own in Budapest.

Great story, James E -- thanks for sharing!
Now with just a few hours left in the RS online shop sale on the Budapest guidebook, I'm thinking maybe it's time for me to plan a trip.

I heard a quote attributed to Picasso to the effect that the only sure way to understand Cubism is to have been born in Malaga.

During a multi-day festival sponsored by a large auto manufacturer, the main pedestrianized street running from Plaza de la Constitucion down to the marina was covered by a gargantuan red carpet. The press corps were also in town for the formal grand opening of the Thyssen museum. And the town's more photogenic native son, Antonio Banderas, was strolling with an entourage of glitterati.

The view of the cityscape's jutting roof lines and colorful tiles with a broad red slash of carpet angling down the street below my hotel room, accented by camera flashes and the sounds and smells of people on holiday filling the warm yet breezy air, brought Picasso's starry esthetic down to earth for this mere mortal.

Picasso did say, "When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering Cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us."

Green Park in London
The canals in Amsterdam, so picturesque especially when lit up at night.
The hilly countryside of Belgium

Mountains in Southern Mexico (yeah I know...not in Europe)

Dingle peninsula and Annecy