I would visit Rome during early June.

a) great history
b) fantastic food
c) very walkable
d) close to the ocean
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I would visit the beaches of Normandy in France. I would love to see what is left from the battles of World War II. Discover the old bunkers that the Nazi's used to try and destroy the American forces landing on the beach. See all the craters left behind by the pounding of American war ship shells. Breath in the history of the beach and relive in my head the turning point in the war and the struggle to free France from Hitler's regime. And of course, most importantly, to pay my respects to to the fallen soldiers who bravely sacrificed their lives for what was right for the world.
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I would visit Budapest in Hungary again

Reason:
1) It's breathtakingly gorgeous. You feel like you are in a fairy tale. Great architecture, beautiful castles.
2) It's romantic. (Don't go alone, take a loved one)
3) It's not expensive because your dollar is worth a more over there.
4) The people. (Everyone is friendly). It's like a whole different world.

I went there during the winter and when you look up the definition of Winter wonderland....Budapest should show up. I have no words.

Hope this helps.
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London for the history. Paris for the beauty and food.
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I've always wanted to go to Vienna because I know that's where Mozart spent so much of his time. As a Mozart lover and huge fan of classical music, I can't image a better place to go. I think I belong in 18th century Vienna. :)
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Prague. :)

I made a promise years back to visit Prague. So if I'll be given a chance to go to any European city, I'd pick Prague.

That promise was made about two years ago. The reason for that promise is something concerning my religion. I don't know if people will believe me or what, all I know is that I made a wish, and it was granted... and since then, I promised that one day, I'll visit Prague to say thank you. :)

Though I think it would take a bit longer for me to visit there, I'm still keeping that promise in my heart.
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Amsterdam.

The history. Places like the Anne Frank house.

You get the canals like in Venice.

Over 50 Museums.

The food is good and there is a good variety. Taxes and tips all included!

Then there are other attractions of the "adult" type and a certain type of plant is legal there too. Thats if your into those types of things.

A handy guide makes me want to go even more:

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/amsterdam.html
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I would visit Budapest, Hungary.

It is one of the less well known European cities that we know about, it is a very romantic, thousand year old city. It has soooo many great sites to see, like the national Gallery and its Royal Palace, which is a typical Neo-Gothic structure(my favorite) I have also heard about the great cafe culture there, with delicious Hungarian cuisine, which I really want to taste! The city itself also has tons of museums and Neo-Gothic churches and cathedrals, many of which are over a thousand years old. The city is also naturally beautiful since it is situated next to the Danube River, and on the Danube is the place called Margarat Island, where you can talk a long walk and enjoy the beautiful nature or party morning with other young people! The cities is also known for their spas, the ones I want to go are classical ones that date all the way back to the Roman days! Again, the city is fantastic, it is the typical classical Age city that is very close to nature and close to the past. As many people have put it, Budapest is a big museum in itself!
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Stuttgart ,home of Porsche
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Paris.

Because I want to visit the Louvre. Greatest art museum in the world. I fell in love with it ever since I read the Da Vinci Code.
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre

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If I can visit one European country I would visit Salzburg in Austria, the place where they filmed the "Sound of Music" movie. Love to see the mountains where Julie Andrews sang "the hills are alive with the sound of music...."
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My dad was in the Air Force, so luckily we got to spend eight years overseas (in Belgium, Germany and Italy - and travelling everywhere else). I have good memories of our stay southwest Germany, so I would love to return there anytime simply for the memories, and Italy was of course fantastic. Belgium was a little rainy and dreary, and the people weren't that interesting I thought, but I haven't been there since elementary school, so I'd love to return to revisit old memories.

But honestly, if someone were to present to me a blank plane ticket to anywhere in Europe that I wanted to go, I would go somewhere I have never been before. Travelling, to me, is not to come back and say "I went here and saw this memorial, and yay!" It's to interact with the people, taste food I've never had before, learn the language, and basically have experiences I wouldn't ordinarily have. I dislike tourists that travel in their bubble and stick to tour guide groups, and don't actually try to experience the culture. For them, it's all about what can brag about when you get back - travelling shouldn't be like that.

Living in northeast Italy for three years, we got the chance to go to Venice a lot. So yes, initially we went to St. Mark's Square and all those things that tourists do - and we were absolutely overrun with tourists everywhere we went. We thought Venice was just an absolute tourist trap - and if you look at it like a tourist, then it is. But I happened to go back to Venice with my Art History teacher (who used to live in Venice) and she took our class to all these art museums I'd never been to, a part of the island I'd never been to (where people actually live, with apartments and empty squares everywhere you turn), and we even ran across a big paved road with benches and parks - completely not your standard Venice. It was the most enlightening travel experience I'd ever had, that a tourist-overrun island could suddenly have so much else to offer.

So my point basically, is that anywhere you go has the potential to be an amazing experience. It doesn't matter if it has a lot of history or museums or monuments - the locals will have their own history, their own local places to see, restaurants to eat at, and everyone has a bit of their culture and language to offer - if you keep your options open.
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I would go Paris.


# Leonardo is one of my favorite personality. And no doubt Monalisa is the qeen of all arts ever. I heard a lot about it. I saw many images about it. But I don't wanna close my eyes forever before viewing it. So I definitely choose Paris to go Louver Museum.


# Somedays ago I read in a news paper that a girl loves eiffel tower and seriously wanna marry it !!! (Dr. says Its a mental problem). So I also test that how it can make me great crushed on it.

# Sunil gangopadhay, our one of the most famous writter and poet. While he was living in new york then he loved a lady of Paris. But he lost her forever, nobody know where is she(S.G.'s girlfriend) now. Someone say may be she raped and killed by blacks or she joined in nun organization.(Not my opinion) Anyway, then he went she's village to find her but couldn't. He missing her still now though he is now a over 50......He often whites in his book where was she's home, in which street, which trees are in front of her house etc....

So I always wish, If I can go there would try to find her if she returned from nun.(If is true.)


# In my text book there is a lesson names "Pari" (Stands for paris) there is written that venus de milo is one of the greatest attraction of paris. It will give you a smooth view of a genuine art. You will discover it same beautiful from every side of view.


Also added there the roads of paris is one of the attractive roads over the world.

There has been said, pari is the real capital of civilized word. So I wanna visit it first then another city can be got priority. Every empire looted money,assets,gold,weapons when they won a new state but france looted arts and culture. England looted many many assets, money but where are they now, they are in soil now. But france looted culture it will be never lost. Arts and culture is everlasting matter. They build them as a heritage fulled country. So I would say they are actual and everlasting winner over all empires.

Thanks
safi
Source(s):
May be billion of dendrites of million of neurons. :D

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I would visit Athens, Greece. Since I was a kid, I was fascinated by the stories about Greece. I have learned about Greek gods and goddesses and have learned to love and believe them, too!
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I would visit Vatican City to see the Sistine Chapel.
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When I was 30 I had to do an exhibition in Frankfurt and decided to pay a visit to my mothers birthplace Berlin, so I took a train, and what a journey that was.
This was only 6 months after the "wall" came down and the train had to travel through what had been east Germany, how dismal, how dark and how neglected it was

Then you enter West Berlin and experience a total transformation. This is an amazing city, it has a distinct border between the old and the new, the east and the west, the cared for and neglected. Berlin has the most fascinating history and reminders of what that city, and its residents, went through.

The first picture is of the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church, right in the centre of Berlin and has been left, scars and all, as a reminder of the WWII

The second is the Brandenburg gate, gateway between east and west, again a reminder.

And the third is checkpoint charlie, now a musuem housing all the ingenious inventions used for escape while the wall was standing.
Source(s):
Personal experience

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I would love to see Moscow! That city has more history then any city in the world. Starting with 1147. I think it is an amazing town.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44399808@N07/4097287523/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44399808@N07/4097287525/

Being from Europe as a travel tip...I would suggest, if you have the oportunity, go to Viena during the Christmas! It is breathtaking!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44399808@N07/4097287531/
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Paris, because it has amazing architecture and food.
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Well... for me it's a place I can blend in, where it's not a tourist central, yet they're not unaccustomed to foreigners, where it has some real character, the best beer and fries and restaurants, a place I can disappear and nobody knows where I am, fun locals I can be partying with in a few days...

Bruges, Belgium.

Plus it's interesting, with some of the oldest medieval architecture and city planing in Europe... like a trip to Disneyland only it's all for real.

http://www.cruisereviews.com/images/ports/europeportreviews/BelgiumPictures/BruggesfromCathedral.jpg

http://z.about.com/d/goeurope/1/0/n/C/brugges_8.jpg

http://z.about.com/d/goeurope/1/0/b/C/brugges_13.jpg

http://www.bugbog.com/images/main/belgium/bruges-belgium.jpg
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I would visit Munich/Germany during the last 2 weeks in September. This is when the "Oktoberfest" takes place, the huge and famous beer festival in Bavaria. The beer is excellent, the food too and it´s best to go early at about 11 a.m. when there are not so many people around. Munich also has very lovely shops and cafes. "Dallmayr" is a delicatessen shop which is worth trying out. "Marienplatz" is where the townhall is situated with a merry go round in the top tower which plays at 11 a.m. Townhall means "Rathaus" in German. "Rat" means "advice" and does not refer to the animal "rat". Although views differ on what occupies a "Rathaus" really.

At "Viktualienmarkt", the big open air market behind "Marienplatz" is THE place to buy fresh produce of the best sort (not cheap!), German bread and cheese, sausages and meat, even venison, fruit and vegetables too. A big fish market is integrated in "Viktualienmarkt", where the finest fish delicatessen from all over Germany can be found. And of course, there is a "beergarden" where 1 Litre humps of beers with huge pretzels are served by busty waitresses in Bavarian dresses.

The churches in Munich are mostly open for visitors and very ornate and loaded with history. On the other side of Marienplatz you would find a church called "Frauentuerme", it has two towers and one is shorter than the other, they had to rebuild one tower after it was bombed in the war and didn´t have enough material. One can walk all the way up in those towers.

There are great museums too and English guide maps and even English speaking tour guides are present. Insider tip: "Valentin museum". Very funny!

If you are really rich, you visit "Theatinerstrasse" where all the shops are that sell first quality clothes, carpets, jewellery etc.

Best restaurant must be "Schneider Weisse" also very close to Marienplatz, where they serve a beer called "Aventinus", careful with that, it is really strong!

Not to forget, further outside Munich there is the Olympic stadium from 1972 and the Television Tower. One can take a lift up this tower and sit there in a restaurant which is revolving and admire the view over Munich.

The S-Bahn (i.e. "underground") would take you also to nice places like the zoo or for a nice day out you could buy a day ticket or family ticket and visit "Starnberger See". That is an ornate lake with views to the Alps, one can hire a rowing boat there or a ticket for the steam ship that stops at the "Sissy Castle" and the place where "Koenig Ludwig" was drowned by his doctor (so the story goes). This trip would take approximately 3 hours.

Nighlife exists in Munich, but is not very "visible". Any "Bavarian" might be a "grumpy" person, but will still helpfully advise in basic English if you ask.

Surprise yourself by ordering a "Schweinshaxe mit Sauerkraut and Knoedel" in a restaurant, if you are there!

And have fun!
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Coming up this May 2010 (in case anyone wanted to send me on a trip) the Monaco Grand Prix will be going on in the principality of Monaco the city of Monte Carlo. I would like to visit and score some great patio race overview seats to see the race and maybe some paddock passes as well.



**If you need the contact info for scoring us these tickets I have done my part and retrieved that information for you.

Automobile Club de Monaco Additional information here
BP 464 - 23, blvd Albert Ier
MC 98012 Monaco
Principality of Monaco
Tel: (+377) 93 15 26 00
Fax: (+377) 93 25 80 08

**If the question of where I would like to see the race form won't let you sleep at night or you just have to know early so we can get the best prices... here you go. I would like a race view like this one.



However if we have to we can take a yacht and view the race from just off shore we might have a better time this way as we can come and go as we please (the crowds will be manic). Plus the idea of a yacht will go along way with the ladies.

**This site will help you buy or rent a yacht for us to enjoy the scene with.
http://yachts.monacoeye.com/files/category-recent-launches.php

I like the looks of this one. See you there!
Source(s):
http://visitmonaco.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=383
http://www.formula1.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_Grand_Prix

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I'd visit Switzerland. I love to climb so that would be fun.
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I would love to visit Madrid, because I have never been there and because I am fascinated by Spain. I went to Barcelona twice and fell in love with the city, but I would choose a place I had never been too.
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I'm lucky in having been able to travel to many places, including a lot of the ones that people have listed here. (Comes with being a bit older... more time to have got through them all... and working for an airline for a while didn't hurt either!)

If I were to visit one city that I've not been to, that would be Venice.

http://www.uwo.ca/modlang/images/venice2.jpg

In my imagination it's one of the most beautiful and romantic places in the world, so someday I'd like to do it in style.

Of the places I've been to, many would be wonderful to revisit, but one place that I'm a complete sucker for is Cambridge. The "Backs" are possibly the single best spot on the planet. :)

http://www.jeremyparsons.com/personal/picture_pages/2004_Cambridge_nostalgia/Kings_College_West_End@Cambridge_Backs.JPG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backs
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Monaco!

its the most glitzy and glamourous place ever! Its also the smallest (about 1 x 3 miles?) the most densely populated and the most expensive place in the world for property. Its second to Las Vegas as a gambling city, full of yachts and fast cars and nice beach and famous streets.

Seriously as long as you dont go during racing season you can visit cheap.

Fly to Nice, in France, aim to stay here. You can easily get there by Easyjet cheap from another European city. Get a train from Nice to Monte Carlo, Monaco. This cost me 6 Euros in 2004 takes about half an hour.

Theres the car museum, the royal palace, fish aquarium and more. The famous hair pin bend which is next to the main casino is a must visit as well.

If you are a car nut or if you are not, you cant miss this. :o)
Source(s):
http://www.visitmonaco.com/

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Paris, definately. I'd love to see the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the Church where Napoleon is buried. Plus it is called the City of Light, who wouldn't want to see Paris at night?
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I have visited dozens of European cities. For first-time visitors to Europe - especially Americans - I think London is a great city. Here's why:

1. Royalty. We love royalty. We love the pageantry, the drama, the fantasy, the architecture, the wealth. All of it. Just think Lady Diana and you'll understand. Other countries had kings, but when we think royalty, we think England.

2. History. There is a lot of history in London and it is easily accessible. Plus, it is a history more of us know than that of other European cities. Who knows the history of Prague or Vienna or other beautiful European cities? London provides history we all can grasp.

3. Icons. London is filled with icons like the double-decker busses, Big Ben, the bridges, etc. It is always great fun to see firsthand what you have seen in movies or catalogs. With the exception of Paris (another great city), you will never find a city with more landmarks and icons that people are familiar with BEFORE they go.

4. Culture. Whether it is music, theatre, art, dance, pubs, or clubs, you will find what you are looking for in London.

5. Accessibility. Getting around London is a breeze. With the Tube, the Heathrow Express and local buses, you can get where you are going quickly. Plus, you get to "mind the gap"
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