Cities / New Attractions in European Metropolises

During the last two years of the pandemic a lot has changed. Amsterdam for instance has added three new museums. In the south, Europe's largest Instagram museum, The Upside, has been opened. In the north, there is the NXT, a museum for new media art. The third new museum that should be part of any visitor’s Amsterdam travel tour is Straat, the world's largest street art museum. The latter are on the north bank of the Ij, a former port and shipyard site where a new creative district has sp...

Barcelona has been fighting for years against mass tourism. Before the pandemic, the city counted 50 million overnight stays per year. The center around Plaça de Catalunya was completely overcrowded. Before the pandemic, a quarter of the population saw tourism as a problem, and more than half of the visitors complained about the crowds. Since Corona, fewer visitors have been coming. Signs saying "For Sale" dominated the old town and Barcelona travel profits went down. The tourism commi...

Join the Locals and Explore the Outdoors Berlin Travel Options Berliners have always been outdoor people. The first rays of sunshine and, poof, they're already sitting in front of the café. Of course, the pandemic has intensified this, as you had to sip your drink on the sidewalk during the various lockdowns. Now the bars are open again, but the park is still the living room as before. Visitors who want to explore the Berlin travel options soon notice that more people hang out outdoors...

The improvised vaccination and testing centers have disappeared from the London cityscape. But the Corona pandemic is still making itself felt in London, and in a positive way: Tickets are still available these weeks for many concerts and theater gigs that would otherwise sell out quickly. Museums and art galleries also have plenty of tickets left. Worth seeing, for example, is the large Stonehenge show at the British Museum, where the mysterious stone circle is placed in its contemporary Euro...

The defeatists on the Seine already thought they had finally been proven right in the pandemic when Paris travel life almost died out. "Paris will never be the same again," Le Nouvel Economiste lamented in May 2020, when the French capital seemed at times to have died out in the lockdown. Wrong: As the city slogan "Fluctuat nec mergitur" says, Paris may fluctuate from time to time - but without ever sinking. The terraces may be a little less crowded than they used to be, the traffic jams less ...

A city like Rome, which has almost three thousand years of history under its belt and has already experienced several barbarian invasions, doesn't let itself get down so easily. Not even by a pandemic. The long history however makes something sluggish and resistant to change: Rome isn't called the "Eternal City" for nothing, after all. The Colosseum, the Pantheon, St. Peter's Basilica, and the Roman Forum: remain the central attractions for all visitors who go on Rome travel holiday. Even a th...