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Dismissing Europe as a museum is glib. Think of it as a theme park

How better to come under the spell of Mitteleuropa than to stroll across the Charles Bridge, admiring Prague’s baroque skyline before reaching the glistening cobblestones of its old town? If Gallic charm is your thing, surely nothing can be so Parisian as whiling away an afternoon at the Café de Flore in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where Jean-Paul Sartre once puffed on Gitanes as he pondered being and nothingness. Or one might seek to discover the ancestral essence of Europe by basking in the old-money haunt of Capri, the whitewashed Aegean island of Santorini, or the honey-coloured streets of Dubrovnik. Pick among these destinations wisely and Europe offers the discerning traveller an unrivalled chance to commune with the continent’s timeless soul.

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