Zagreb

The Croatian capital, born as two rival medieval hill-towns and grown into a Central European city of markets and boulevards. Walk Gradec, the free town crowned by Saint Mark's tiled roof; cross to Kaptol, the cathedral town, over the market and the buried stream that once divided them; then read the nineteenth-century Green Horseshoe of planned parks below. An unhurried, café-and-market city, made for walking.