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City · France
Amboise is a commune in Indre-et-Loire, in France's Centre-Val de Loire region. The Château Royal d'Amboise, whose Saint-Hubert Chapel holds Leonardo da Vinci's tomb, and the Château du Clos Lucé, where Leonardo lived in his last years, are separate visitor sites in the town.
City · United States
Anaheim is the most populous city in Orange County, California, according to Wikidata, and the home of the Disneyland Resort's two theme parks. On XTOUR it covers tickets for Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park.
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City · France
Amboise is a commune in Indre-et-Loire, in France's Centre-Val de Loire region. The Château Royal d'Amboise, whose Saint-Hubert Chapel holds Leonardo da Vinci's tomb, and the Château du Clos Lucé, where Leonardo lived in his last years, are separate visitor sites in the town.
City · France
Antibes is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. On XTOUR it appears as a stop on guided Riviera tours that depart from Nice.
City · France
Avignon is a commune in the Vaucluse département of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Its Palais des Papes, which the operator Avignon Tourisme describes as the largest Gothic palace in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the Pont Saint-Bénézet (Pont d'Avignon) are the two monuments XTOUR maps here.
City · France
Cannes is a French commune and city in the Alpes-Maritimes département of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. On XTOUR it appears as a stop on guided Riviera tours that depart from Nice.
Town · France
Giverny is a commune in the Eure département of Normandy, home to Claude Monet's house and gardens and to the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny. It lies outside Paris.
Town · France
Gordes is a commune in the Vaucluse département of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. On XTOUR it appears as a free-time stop on a guided Luberon tour that departs from Avignon.
Town · France
Le Mont-Saint-Michel is a commune in the Manche département of Normandy, built around the Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel, which the Centre des monuments nationaux operates. XTOUR lists the Paris day trips that go there.
City · France
Marseille is a French commune on the Mediterranean coast. The Mucem and Fort Saint-Jean are in the city, and Château d'If stands on an island off its coast, reached by boat from the Vieux-Port.
City · France
Nice is a city and commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. On XTOUR it is the departure base for guided minibus tours along the Riviera coast; those tours are about their own stops, not about Nice itself.
City · France
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. XTOUR maps the museums, monuments, river cruises and shows that are in the city itself, and treats day trips that merely start in Paris separately.
Town · France
Roussillon is a commune in the Vaucluse département of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France (not the Isère commune or the former province of the same name). On XTOUR it appears as a stop on a guided Luberon tour that departs from Avignon.
Town · France
Saint-Paul-de-Vence is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. On XTOUR it appears as a stop on a full-day guided Riviera tour that departs from Nice.
Town · France
Èze is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes département of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. On XTOUR it appears as a stop on a full-day guided Riviera tour that departs from Nice.
City · United States
Anaheim is the most populous city in Orange County, California, according to Wikidata, and the home of the Disneyland Resort's two theme parks. On XTOUR it covers tickets for Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park.
City · United States
Atlanta is the capital city of the US state of Georgia and the seat of Fulton County, according to Wikidata; it has no connection with the country of Georgia. On XTOUR it covers attraction tickets, a city pass and a civil-rights walking tour in the city.
City · United States
Austin is the capital city of the US state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it is the travel base for Circuit of The Americas, the race track near Austin that hosts the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix.
City · United States
Boston is the capital city of the US state of Massachusetts and the seat of Suffolk County, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers harbour cruises, Freedom Trail walking tours, city passes and attraction tickets such as the New England Aquarium and the View Boston observation deck.
City · United States
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Cook County, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers the city's observation decks, museum tickets, river and lake cruises, hop-on hop-off buses and city passes.
Island · United States
Hawaii Island, often called the Big Island, is the largest of the Hawaiian islands in the US state of Hawaii, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers boat trips on the Kona Coast that board at Kailua Pier in Kailua-Kona: snorkelling, dolphin-watching, sunset and dinner cruises.
City · United States
Houston is the seat of Harris County and the largest city in the US state of Texas, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers museum, aquarium and space-centre tickets in the city.
City · United States
Key West is a city in the Florida Keys and the county seat of Monroe County in the US state of Florida, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers snorkelling, dolphin-watching and sunset dinner cruises from the Historic Seaport, parasailing, and the day trip from Miami Beach.
City · United States
Las Vegas is the seat of Clark County and the largest city in the US state of Nevada, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers museums, observation decks, shows and city passes in the city and on the Las Vegas Strip, plus day trips that start here.
City · United States
Los Angeles is the seat of Los Angeles County and the largest city in California, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers museum and theatre tickets, guided tours, sightseeing buses, bike tours and city passes in the City of Los Angeles, each linked to the place it visits.
City · United States
Miami is a city in Miami-Dade County in the US state of Florida, according to Wikidata, across Biscayne Bay from the separate city of Miami Beach. On XTOUR it covers Biscayne Bay cruises and jet ski tours from Bayside Marketplace, city bus and walking tours, Wynwood Walls, Zoo Miami and Go City Miami passes.
City · United States
Miami Beach is a city in Miami-Dade County in the US state of Florida, according to Wikidata, separate from the city of Miami across Biscayne Bay. On XTOUR it covers bike rentals, a snorkelling cruise from Miami Beach Marina, the Bayside to South Beach water taxi and the bus tours and Key West day trip that start on Lincoln Road.
Region · United States
Napa Valley is a wine region (American Viticultural Area) in Napa County in the US state of California, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers wine-tasting day trips from San Francisco that visit wineries in the valley.
City · United States
New Orleans is the largest city of the US state of Louisiana, according to Wikidata, and lies in Orleans Parish. On XTOUR it covers Go City attraction passes and a hop-on hop-off bus tour of the city.
City · United States
New York City is the most populous city in the United States, according to Wikidata, and lies in the US state of New York. On XTOUR it covers observation decks, museums, zoos and other attraction tickets in its boroughs, each linked to the real venue it admits to.
City · United States
Niagara Falls is a city in Niagara County in the US state of New York, according to Wikidata, on the American side of the falls. On XTOUR it covers Niagara Falls State Park and the day trips that reach it from New York City.
Island · United States
Oahu is an island in the US state of Hawaii, according to Wikidata, and the whole island forms the City and County of Honolulu. On XTOUR it covers Pearl Harbor museum tickets, Waikiki boat cruises, Diamond Head, water and adventure parks, the Waikiki Trolley and Oahu attraction passes.
City · United States
Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, in the US state of Florida, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers theme park and attraction tickets in the Orlando area, city passes, and day trips that start there.
City · United States
Philadelphia is the largest city in the US state of Pennsylvania and the seat of Philadelphia County, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers a hop-on hop-off bus, Go City passes and day trips that reach Independence National Historical Park, home of the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.
City · United States
San Antonio is a city in the US state of Texas and the seat of Bexar County, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers a zoo ticket and Go City attraction passes for the city.
City · United States
San Diego is the seat of San Diego County and the second-largest city in California, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers zoo, theme park and museum tickets, a harbour cruise, bike tours and rentals, and city passes for San Diego and nearby Carlsbad and Chula Vista, each linked to the place it visits.
City · United States
San Francisco is a city and county in the US state of California, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers the city's museum tickets, bay cruises, Alcatraz ferries, bike and bus tours and city passes, plus the day trips that start from it.
City · United States
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in Los Angeles County, California, according to Wikidata, separate from the City of Los Angeles. On XTOUR it covers bike rentals, guided bike tours and sightseeing bus routes that start in or pass through it.
Town · United States
Sausalito is a city in Marin County in the US state of California, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers the half-day tours from San Francisco that stop in the town.
City · United States
Seattle is a city in the US state of Washington and the county seat of King County, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers the city's observation decks, aquarium tickets, harbour cruises, walking and coffee tours, a hop-on hop-off bus and a city pass.
City · United States
St. Augustine is a city in St. Johns County, in the US state of Florida, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers a day trip from Orlando to its historic district and tickets for venues in the city.
City · United States
Tampa is a city in and the seat of Hillsborough County, in the US state of Florida, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers attraction tickets for venues in the city, such as its aquarium and zoo.
City · United States
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, according to Wikidata, and is coextensive with the District of Columbia rather than part of any US state. On XTOUR it covers memorial and monument visits, walking tours, bike rentals and sightseeing buses around the National Mall, plus Arlington National Cemetery across the Potomac in Virginia.
City · Turkey
Antalya is a Mediterranean port city whose old harbour town, Kaleiçi, was founded as Attaleia by Attalos II of Pergamon and is entered through a marble gate built in AD 130 for the emperor Hadrian. It is the base for the Konyaaltı and Lara beach strips and for separate road trips to the ancient cities of Perge, Aspendos, Side, Termessos and Phaselis.
Region · Turkey
Cappadocia is a region of central Türkiye, mostly in Nevşehir Province, where volcanic tuff has eroded into valleys and rock pinnacles known as fairy chimneys. People cut churches, dwellings and whole underground settlements into the rock from about the 4th century. UNESCO inscribed Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia in 1985; the property includes the underground cities of Kaymaklı and Derinkuyu. Three Ministry-run sites anchor a first visit: the Göreme Open Air Museum, Kaymaklı Underground City and the Zelve-Paşabağları site.
City · Turkey
Istanbul is the city the Bosphorus divides between Europe and Asia, with the Golden Horn cutting into its European shore. Its Historic Areas (the Sultanahmet archaeological park, the Süleymaniye quarter, Zeyrek and the Land Walls) are a UNESCO World Heritage property inscribed in 1985, and a visit sorts naturally into the old city, the European Bosphorus shore around Beyoğlu, and Üsküdar and Kadıköy across the water.
City · Turkey
Kars is a high-plateau city in north-eastern Türkiye, at about 1,768 m, and the base for the ruined medieval city of Ani on the Armenian border. It has its own castle, two Ministry museums, a 10th-century church-turned-mosque and a grid of Russian-era stone buildings, and a rail link to Ankara.
Historic town · Turkey
Safranbolu is a town in Karabük Province whose Ottoman-era quarters form the UNESCO World Heritage property 'City of Safranbolu'. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism describes a two-part town — Çarşı, the winter quarter, and Bağlar, the summer quarter, about 4 km apart — with some 1,500 protected buildings, and it is the base for İncekaya Aqueduct and the village of Yörük Köyü.
Town · Turkey
Selçuk is a town and district in İzmir province on the Aegean coast, the base for visiting the ancient city of Ephesus. Its own monuments sit around Ayasuluk Hill, where the Basilica of St John stands, and the Ephesus Museum, run by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is in the town. UNESCO inscribed Ephesus in 2015 as a property of four separate components, and the visitor-facing Ministry sites are only some of them.
City · Turkey
Trabzon is the main city of Türkiye's eastern Black Sea coast and the base for Sümela Monastery and Uzungöl. In the city itself are the 13th-century Hagia Sophia of Trabzon, the Ministry's Trabzon Museum in the Kostaki Mansion, the small St Anna church, and the Boztepe viewing terrace above the harbour.
City · Turkey
Şanlıurfa, also called Urfa, is the base for Göbekli Tepe, the Pre-Pottery Neolithic hilltop site on the UNESCO World Heritage List, and for the Ministry's Şanlıurfa Archaeology Museum and Haleplibahçe Mosaic Museum. Its old core also holds Balıklıgöl, a pilgrimage site tied to the Prophet Abraham. Several heritage units around it are closed or under restoration, and they need checking one by one.
Wine Village · Armenia
Areni is a small village in the dry red-rock landscape of Vayots Dzor, at the centre of Armenia's most important wine area and beside the cave where archaeologists found the world's oldest known winery. It is a base rather than a sight: a place to taste wine, visit the Areni-1 cave and reach the Noravank monastery at the end of its gorge, on the main road south towards Goris and Iran.
Mountain Town · Armenia
Dilijan is a forested mountain town in Tavush, surrounded by a national park of over 240 square kilometres of beech and oak woodland, with a restored nineteenth-century craft street, walking trails into the hills, and the monasteries of Haghartsin and Goshavank in wooded settings nearby. It is Armenia's main slow-travel base and a complete climatic contrast to the dry plain around Yerevan.
Town · Armenia
Goris is a nineteenth-century planned town in southern Armenia, laid out on a grid in a bowl ringed by eroded rock pinnacles and honeycombed cave dwellings. It is the practical base for Tatev Monastery and the Wings of Tatev cable car, the abandoned cave village of Khndzoresk, and the wider Syunik region, and it exists on most itineraries because the distances down here make an overnight close to unavoidable.
City · Armenia
Gyumri is Armenia's second city and its most architecturally distinctive, built from black and red volcanic tuff in a nineteenth-century merchant style that survives across more than a thousand buildings in the protected Kumayri district. It has a strong independent cultural identity, a reputation for humour and craft that Armenians take seriously, and a train link from Yerevan that makes it one of the easiest places in the country to reach without a car.
Lake Town · Armenia
Sevan is the town and shoreline on Armenia's great high-altitude lake, sitting at roughly 1,900 metres where the water stays cold, the wind is constant and the light is unlike anywhere else in the country. It is the base for the Sevanavank monastery on its peninsula, the medieval khachkar field at Noratus, and a short but genuine summer swimming season.
Mountain Resort · Armenia
Tsaghkadzor is Armenia's main mountain resort, an hour north of Yerevan on the slopes of Mount Teghenis, with a lift system rising from around 1,966 metres to about 2,819 metres, the eleventh-century Kecharis monastery in the town centre, and a Soviet-era Olympic training complex that explains why a town this size has infrastructure this large. It is a genuine ski destination in winter and a cool-air escape with a ropeway and walking in summer, and the two experiences are almost entirely different.
City · Armenia
Yerevan is Armenia's capital and the base for almost every trip to the country: a low-rise city built largely from pink volcanic tuff, with a dense cafe and dining culture, serious museums and manuscript collections, Soviet-modernist architecture, and monasteries, wine country and Lake Sevan all within a day's return drive.
City · Greece
Athens is the capital of Greece. Greece's national tourism organisation says it has been inhabited without interruption since the Neolithic era and was declared capital of the modern Greek state in 1834.
City · Greece
Chania (Χανιά) is a city at the western end of Crete. Greece's national tourism site describes its old town, with Venetian mansions, old hammams and minarets, its old harbour, and the historic Halepa quarter to the east of the city, where it says the Archaeological Museum of Chania is located.
City · Greece
Corfu Town (Kerkyra) is the town on the island of Corfu that is the seat of the Municipality of Central Corfu and Diapontia Islands; the Ministry of Culture says its Old Town, two fortresses and perimeter fortifications were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2007. XTOUR maps the Old and New Fortresses and the Church of Saint Spyridon in the town, and the Achilleion at Gastouri as a place reached from it.
Town · Greece
Delphi is a village in Phocis, Central Greece, close to the archaeological site of Delphi, which the Ephorate of Antiquities of Phocis places 400 m from the present-day village. Visit Greece says the village was moved to its present position in 1893, when the land of the original hamlet was expropriated for the archaeological site.
City · Greece
Heraklion (Ηράκλειο) is a city in the centre of the northern coast of Crete, which the Municipality of Heraklion describes as the capital of the region and the economic centre of the island. The municipality's pages list the Archaeological Museum among the city's museums and place Knossos, the centre of Minoan civilisation, south of the city.
City · Greece
Ioannina is a city in Epirus beside Lake Pamvotida, the seat of the Municipality of Ioannina and of the Epirus Region, according to the municipality. XTOUR maps the castle and the Archaeological Museum in the city, and treats Dodona and the Cave of Perama, which lie outside the city, as places for which Ioannina is a base.
Town · Greece
Kalambaka is a town in Thessaly and the seat of the Municipality of Meteora, whose own pages name the Meteora rocks, a UNESCO World Heritage site, as the town's main sight. XTOUR lists the six Meteora monasteries, which stand on the Meteora rocks in the Municipality of Meteora, as places reached from Kalambaka rather than places in the town.
Island · Greece
Mykonos is an island in the heart of the Cyclades, Greece. The archaeological site of Delos, on the nearby island of Delos in the same municipality, is mapped as a separate place, not as part of Mykonos.
Town · Greece
Nafplio is a town at the head of the Argolic Gulf in the Peloponnese which, Visit Greece says, was the first capital of the modern Greek state from 1827 to 1834. The same page places the Palamidi castle at the town's highest point and the Bourtzi fortress on the islet of Agioi Theodoroi just off its coast; Mycenae, Tiryns and Epidaurus are sites outside the town.
Island · Greece
Rhodes is an island in the Dodecanese, Greece, whose Medieval Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, according to Greece's national tourism organisation. XTOUR maps the Palace of the Grand Master and the Archaeological Museum in the medieval town of Rhodes, and the Acropolis of Lindos on the island's southeastern side.
Island · Greece
Santorini, known in antiquity as Thera, is an island at the southern end of the Cyclades in Greece; Greece's national tourism organisation also uses the name for the island group of Thera, Thirasia, Aspronisi, Palea Kameni and Nea Kameni, and this destination is the island of Thera itself. XTOUR maps the Bronze Age town at Akrotiri, Ancient Thera, the Museum of Prehistoric Thera in Fira and the medieval castles of Skaros and Oia on the island.
City · Greece
Thessaloniki is a city in Macedonia, Greece, on the Thermaic Gulf; the Greek National Tourism Organisation describes it as inhabited since prehistoric times, with archaeological sites, Byzantine churches and Ottoman monuments, and the White Tower on its waterfront. XTOUR maps the Roman and Byzantine monuments, churches and museums in the city itself, and keeps places elsewhere in Central Macedonia, such as Pella and Aigai at Vergina, apart from it.
Town · Austria
Bad Ischl is a spa town in the Salzkammergut in Upper Austria; its tourism board says it was Emperor Franz Joseph I's summer residence from 1849 to 1914. XTOUR maps the Kaiservilla, the Lehár Villa and the Katrin cable car in Bad Ischl.
City · Austria
Bregenz is the state capital of Vorarlberg on Lake Constance; the city signs itself 'Landeshauptstadt Bregenz' and the vorarlberg museum places itself in the heart of Bregenz next to the lake. XTOUR maps Kunsthaus Bregenz, the vorarlberg museum and the Pfänder cable car's valley station in the city.
City · Austria
Graz is the capital of the Austrian state of Styria; the Austrian Commission for UNESCO lists its historic centre together with Eggenberg Palace as a World Heritage site, inscribed in 1999 and extended to the palace in 2010. XTOUR maps the Schlossberg, the Clock Tower, the Kunsthaus, Eggenberg Palace and the cathedral in the city.
Town · Austria
Hallstatt is a market municipality in the Salzkammergut in Upper Austria, which its municipal site places on the south-western shore of Lake Hallstatt, surrounded by the mountains of the Dachstein massif. XTOUR maps the salt mine, the museum and the ossuary in Hallstatt, and treats Lake Hallstatt and the Dachstein sites in neighbouring Obertraun as places reached from it, not as part of it.
City · Austria
Innsbruck is the capital of the Austrian state of Tyrol; the city's own site signs itself 'Landeshauptstadt Innsbruck'. XTOUR maps the Golden Roof, the Imperial Palace, the Court Church, the Museum of Tyrolean Folk Art, Ambras Castle and the Nordkette cable car in the city.
City · Austria
Klagenfurt am Wörthersee is the capital of Carinthia, a statutory city that lies on the east bay of the Wörthersee. XTOUR maps the Lindwurm Fountain and the cathedral in the city, and treats the Wörthersee and Hochosterwitz Castle as places reached from it, not as part of it.
City · Austria
Krems an der Donau is a statutory city on the Danube in Lower Austria, which its town marketing site presents through its historic old town of Krems and Stein, contemporary culture, vineyards and the river. XTOUR maps the Kunsthalle Krems and the State Gallery of Lower Austria on the city's Kunstmeile.
City · Austria
Linz is the capital city of Upper Austria, on the Danube, and UNESCO lists it in its Creative Cities Network as a City of Media Arts, a member since 2014. XTOUR maps the Ars Electronica Center, the Lentos Art Museum, the New Cathedral, Linz Castle and the Pöstlingberg Basilica in the city.
Town · Austria
Melk is a town in Lower Austria and the seat of Melk District, which its own tourism site presents as the gateway to the Wachau, with the Wachau World Heritage site before the town's gates and the Benedictine abbey of Melk above it. XTOUR maps Melk Abbey in the town.
City · Austria
Salzburg is the capital of the Austrian federal state of the same name; its tourism board says the city's historic centre, on both banks of the Salzach, has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996. XTOUR maps the fortress, the cathedral, the Residenz, Mirabell Palace and its gardens, Hellbrunn, the two Mozart museums, St Peter's Archabbey, the Museum der Moderne on the Mönchsberg and the Salzburg Museum in the city.
City · Austria
Vienna (Wien) is Austria's federal capital and, as the City of Vienna's own administration page puts it, also one of the country's federal provinces. XTOUR maps palaces, museums and churches inside the city, among them Schönbrunn Palace, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Belvedere and St. Stephen's Cathedral; Klosterneuburg, a separate municipality in Lower Austria, is not part of the city.
Town · Austria
Zell am See is a town in the Pinzgau in the state of Salzburg, which the regional tourism board describes as lying on a peninsula in Lake Zell at the foot of the Schmittenhöhe. XTOUR maps Lake Zell within the municipality, and treats the Schmittenhöhe summit and the Kitzsteinhorn above Kaprun as places reached from it, not as part of it.
Mountain and Ski Resort · Georgia
Bakuriani is one of Georgia's oldest mountain resorts, combining family-friendly skiing, the higher Didveli, Kokhta and Mitarbi ski areas, pine forests, winter activities and a surprisingly active summer season in the Trialeti Range.
City · Georgia
Georgia’s main Black Sea city combines a long seafront boulevard, subtropical greenery, historic streets, bold modern architecture, regional Ajarian food and easy access to the mountains, waterfalls and fortresses of Adjara.
Town · Georgia
Borjomi is Georgia’s best-known mineral-water resort, set in a forested valley of the Lesser Caucasus and known for its historic spa culture, Central Park springs, Romanov-era architecture, sulfur pools and access to Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park.
Ski Resort · Georgia
Gudauri is Georgia's largest and best-known high-altitude ski resort, set on the Georgian Military Highway in the Greater Caucasus and known for lift-served skiing, freeride terrain, paragliding, panoramic mountain views and easy access from Tbilisi.
City · Georgia
Kutaisi is one of Georgia’s oldest cities and the cultural heart of Imereti, combining medieval monuments, lively markets, bridges over the Rioni, distinctive western Georgian food and easy access to caves, monasteries, canyons, spa towns and wine country.
Town and Wine Region Base · Georgia
Kvareli is a small wine town at the foot of the Greater Caucasus in northern Kakheti, known for the Kindzmarauli wine microzone, Saperavi vineyards, Ilia Chavchavadze heritage, mountain-framed lakes, wine cellars and easy access to Nekresi and Gremi.
Town and Nature Base · Georgia
Martvili is a small town in Samegrelo surrounded by limestone canyons, waterfalls, forested river valleys, historic churches and some of western Georgia's most distinctive Megrelian food traditions.
Town · Georgia
Mestia is the main mountain town of Upper Svaneti, surrounded by some of Georgia’s highest Caucasus peaks and known for medieval Svan towers, distinctive local culture, alpine hiking, skiing and access to remote villages such as Ushguli.
Historic town · Georgia
Mtskheta was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Iberia and is the place where Georgia adopted Christianity in the fourth century. Today it is a small, walkable town twenty kilometres from Tbilisi holding Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, the hilltop church of Jvari, the working convent of Samtavro and the archaeological remains of the pre-Christian royal city, inscribed together on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is simultaneously Georgia's most important pilgrimage destination and its most accessible serious historical site.
Town · Georgia
Sighnaghi is a fortified hill town in Kakheti overlooking the Alazani Valley and Greater Caucasus, known for its 18th-century walls, wine culture, Pirosmani art, romantic atmosphere, Bodbe Monastery and easy access to family wineries and vineyard villages.
Town · Georgia
Stepantsminda, widely known as Kazbegi, is a high Caucasus mountain town beneath Mount Kazbek, known for Gergeti Trinity Church, dramatic valleys, mineral landscapes, alpine villages and some of Georgia’s most accessible high-mountain scenery.
city · Georgia
Georgia’s capital is a layered city of old balconies, sulfur baths, hillside neighborhoods, contemporary restaurants and centuries of history along the Mtkvari River.
City · Georgia
Telavi is the historic and administrative heart of Kakheti, combining Georgia's best-preserved royal palace, a centuries-old regional market, traditional wine culture, views across the Alazani Valley and easy access to some of eastern Georgia's most important monasteries, wineries and villages.
Spa Town · Georgia
Tskaltubo is a historic spa town near Kutaisi known for warm mineral baths, monumental Soviet-era sanatoria, a vast central park, functioning rehabilitation centers and exceptional access to the cave landscapes of western Georgia.
Mountain Village Community · Georgia
Ushguli is a high-altitude community of historic Svan villages beneath Mount Shkhara, known for medieval defensive towers, living Svan traditions, Lamaria Church, dramatic glacier landscapes and its place within UNESCO-listed Upper Svaneti.
City · Indonesia
Bandung (Kota Bandung) is a city in West Java and the province's capital. XTOUR maps the Museum of the Asian-African Conference in Gedung Merdeka and the Geological Museum on Jalan Diponegoro in the city.
City · Indonesia
Bogor is a city (kota) in West Java, governed by the Bogor city government across six districts; the State Secretariat says the colonial retreat of Buitenzorg, begun in 1745, gave its name to the settlements now known as the city of Bogor. XTOUR maps the Bogor Botanical Gardens, the Bogor Palace and the zoology museum in the city centre.
City · Indonesia
Bukittinggi is a city in West Sumatra Province, Indonesia; its city government says it was called Fort de Kock in the Dutch colonial period and was the seat of the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (PDRI) from December 1948 to June 1949. XTOUR maps Jam Gadang, Fort de Kock and the Bung Hatta Birth House in the city.
City · Indonesia
Denpasar (Kota Denpasar) is the city whose government's history page traces it from a royal garden of the Badung kingdom to the capital of Bali Province. XTOUR maps the Bali Museum and the Bajra Sandhi Monument inside the city; Tanah Lot (Tabanan Regency) and Uluwatu Temple (Badung Regency) are outside it.
City · Indonesia
Jakarta is a province-level special region of Indonesia, governed as a province with five administrative cities; the provincial government's history page says it grew from a small port at the mouth of the Ciliwung river, and its timeline dates Jakarta's designation as capital of the Republic of Indonesia to 31 August 1964. XTOUR maps the National Monument, the Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta Cathedral, the National Museum and the Kota Tua museums inside its administrative cities.
Town · Indonesia
Labuan Bajo is a town in East Nusa Tenggara and the capital of West Manggarai Regency, in Komodo district. XTOUR uses it as the base for Komodo National Park and its islands, which lie offshore and are not part of the town.
City · Indonesia
Malang is a city (kota) in East Java province, Indonesia, bordered by Malang Regency, a separate regency of the same name. The Brawijaya Museum lies inside the city; Mount Bromo, Semeru, Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, Tumpak Sewu and the Singhasari and Jago temples lie outside it, in Malang, Lumajang, Probolinggo and Pasuruan regencies.
City · Indonesia
Mataram is a city (kota) in Indonesia and the capital of West Nusa Tenggara province. Taman Mayura and the West Nusa Tenggara State Museum lie inside the city; Narmada and Lingsar (West Lombok Regency) and Mount Rinjani (East Lombok Regency) lie outside it.
City · Indonesia
Medan is a city in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia; the provincial government's tourism page calls it a gateway to destinations across Sumatra and names Istana Maimun with the Mesjid Raya, and Rumah Tjong A Fie in the Kesawan area, among its city sights. XTOUR maps Maimun Palace, the Great Mosque of Medan, Tjong A Fie Mansion, Graha Maria Annai Velangkanni and the North Sumatra Museum in the city.
City · Indonesia
Surakarta, commonly called Solo, is a city (kota) in Central Java whose government states its vision as making Surakarta a city of culture. XTOUR maps the Kasunanan palace (Kraton Surakarta), the Mangkunegaran palace, the Danar Hadi batik museum and Klewer Market inside the city; Sukuh and Cetho temples in Karanganyar Regency and the Sangiran museum in Sragen Regency are outside it.
Town · Indonesia
Ubud is a town in Gianyar Regency, Bali; Bali's provincial tourism register lists Kelurahan Ubud, in the Ubud district (Kecamatan Ubud), as a cultural tourist attraction. XTOUR maps the Monkey Forest sanctuary at Padangtegal and the Agung Rai Museum of Art on Jalan Raya Pengosekan in the Ubud district.
City · Indonesia
Yogyakarta is a city (kota) and the capital of Indonesia's Special Region of Yogyakarta. XTOUR maps the Kraton, Taman Sari, the Sonobudoyo and Fort Vredeburg museums and Beringharjo Market in the city; Prambanan, Ratu Boko, Borobudur, Mendut, Merapi and Ullen Sentalu lie outside its boundary and are reached from it.
City · Switzerland
Basel is a city on the Rhine in the corner where Switzerland meets Germany and France, and the seat of the canton of Basel-Stadt. XTOUR maps the Minster, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Town Hall, the Museum Tinguely and the Spalentor in the city, and treats the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen and Augusta Raurica in Augst as trips from Basel.
City · Switzerland
Bern is the federal city of Switzerland on a loop of the Aare, which the city's own site calls the political centre of the country; its old town has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1983. XTOUR maps the Zytglogge, the Minster, the Federal Palace, the Einstein House, the Bern History Museum and the Zentrum Paul Klee in the city, and treats Thun Castle as a trip from Bern.
City · Switzerland
Geneva is the capital of the canton of Geneva, which the City of Geneva's own pages describe as the European seat of the United Nations and the seat of the International Red Cross. XTOUR maps St. Pierre Cathedral, the Palais des Nations, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, the Museum of Art and History, the Reformation Wall and the Botanical Garden in the city.
Town · Switzerland
Interlaken is a town and municipality in the canton of Bern on the alluvial plain between Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, which its tourism board presents as a starting point for excursions into the Jungfrau Region and the Bernese Oberland. XTOUR uses Interlaken as a travel base only: the Jungfraujoch, Harder Kulm, the Lauterbrunnen Valley and its falls, the two lakes and the other places reached from it are mapped at their own locations, none of them in Interlaken.
City · Switzerland
Lausanne is the capital of the canton of Vaud on the northern shore of Lake Geneva, which its tourism board describes as built on three hills and as the home of the International Olympic Committee's headquarters. XTOUR maps Lausanne Cathedral, the Olympic Museum, the Collection de l'Art Brut and the MCBA fine-arts museum in the city.
City · Switzerland
Lucerne (Luzern) is the capital of the canton of Lucerne and, as the city's own Welcome Desk page puts it, the largest municipality in that canton. XTOUR maps the Chapel Bridge, the Lion Monument, the Musegg Wall, the Jesuit Church, the Hofkirche, the Bourbaki Panorama and the Swiss Museum of Transport in the city, and lists Pilatus, the Rigi, the Titlis and Lake Lucerne, which lie outside it, only as places based from Lucerne.
City · Switzerland
Lugano is a city on Lake Lugano in the canton of Ticino; its municipality, enlarged by mergers between 1972 and 2013, is divided into 21 quarters, among them Brè-Aldesago, Pazzallo and Gandria.
Town · Switzerland
Montreux is a municipality in the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut district of the canton of Vaud, which its own site describes as made up of about twenty villages, among them Clarens, Territet, Glion, Caux and the Vieille Ville. XTOUR maps the Freddie Mercury statue in the municipality; Chillon Castle and the Rochers de Naye summit lie in Veytaux and Chaplin's World in Corsier-sur-Vevey, outside it.
City · Switzerland
Schaffhausen is the capital of the canton of Schaffhausen on the Rhine; the City of Schaffhausen describes it as the centre of a small region between Zurich and the German state of Baden-Württemberg, with a well-preserved, traffic-free historic old town. XTOUR maps the Munot fortress and the Museum zu Allerheiligen in the city, and treats the Rhine Falls downstream and Hohenklingen Castle above Stein am Rhein as places reached from Schaffhausen, not places in it.
City · Switzerland
St. Gallen is the capital of the canton of St. Gallen, and the city's own guide says its old town contains the Abbey District, a UNESCO World Heritage site. XTOUR maps the Abbey Library, the cathedral, the Textile Museum and the Kunstmuseum in the city, and lists the Säntis, which lies outside it, only as a mountain based from St. Gallen.
Town · Switzerland
Zermatt is a village and municipality in the Visp district of the canton of Valais, at the foot of the Matterhorn. XTOUR maps the Matterhorn Museum in the village; the Gornergrat, the Klein Matterhorn, the Gorner Glacier and the Gorner gorge lie in the wider municipality outside the village, and the Matterhorn's summit is on the Swiss–Italian border, so XTOUR records them as places reached from Zermatt.
City · Switzerland
Zurich is the capital of the canton of Zurich; the City of Zurich says it took its present political structure when the old town merged with eleven neighbouring municipalities in 1893, and reached its present extent with a second incorporation in 1934. XTOUR maps the Swiss National Museum, the Kunsthaus, the Museum Rietberg and the Grossmünster, Fraumünster and St. Peter churches inside the city, and treats Lake Zurich, the Uetliberg and Einsiedeln Abbey as places reached from Zurich, not places in it.
City · United Kingdom
Bath is a city in Somerset, England; the City of Bath World Heritage Site's own website says it was inscribed by UNESCO in 1987 for its hot springs, Roman archaeology, Georgian buildings and landscape setting, and again in 2021 as one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe. XTOUR maps the Roman Baths, Bath Abbey, the Holburne Museum, No. 1 Royal Crescent and Pulteney Bridge in the city, and treats Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire as places reached from Bath, not as part of it.
City · United Kingdom
Belfast is the capital city of Northern Ireland; Belfast City Hall on Donegall Square, in the city centre, is the city council's civic building. XTOUR maps Titanic Belfast, the Ulster Museum, City Hall and Crumlin Road Gaol in the city, and treats the Giant's Causeway and Dunluce Castle on the Antrim coast as places reached from Belfast, not as part of it.
City · United Kingdom
Cambridge is a city and county town in Cambridgeshire, England; Visit Cambridge, the city's visitor guide, says its architecture was shaped primarily by the University of Cambridge. XTOUR maps King's College Chapel, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettle's Yard, the University Botanic Garden and the Mathematical Bridge in the city, and keeps IWM Duxford, which lies outside it, apart.
City · United Kingdom
Canterbury is a cathedral city in Kent, England, where Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey and St Martin's Church are parts of the Canterbury World Heritage Site. XTOUR maps those three places in the city and treats Dover Castle, in Dover, separately.
City · United Kingdom
Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital city of Wales; its official tourism body, Visit Cardiff, is part of Cardiff Council. XTOUR maps Cardiff Castle, National Museum Cardiff, St Fagans National Museum of History, Llandaff Cathedral and Castell Coch within the City and County of Cardiff, and treats Caerphilly Castle, in Caerphilly County Borough, as a place reached from Cardiff.
City · United Kingdom
Edinburgh is Scotland's capital city. Forever Edinburgh, the City of Edinburgh Council's destination marketing service, lists Leith, a historical port, among the city's own neighbourhoods and Midlothian among its day trips outside Edinburgh.
City · United Kingdom
Glasgow is a city on the River Clyde in west central Scotland, as VisitScotland describes it. XTOUR maps Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Riverside Museum, the Burrell Collection, the Hunterian, Glasgow Cathedral and the Glasgow Necropolis in the city.
City · United Kingdom
Inverness is a city in the Highlands of Scotland, which VisitScotland calls the capital of the Highlands. XTOUR maps Inverness Cathedral in the city and treats Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, the Clava Cairns and Fort George as places reached from Inverness, not part of it.
City · United Kingdom
Liverpool is a city in Merseyside, England, whose waterfront on the Mersey includes the Royal Albert Dock, opened in 1846; the Metropolitan Cathedral's history page calls mid-19th-century Liverpool a thriving port.
City · United Kingdom
London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. XTOUR maps the museums, galleries, churches, palaces, parks and markets that lie inside Greater London or the City of London, and keeps places that are only reached from London, such as Windsor Castle, apart from the city.
City · United Kingdom
Oxford is a city in Oxfordshire, England, where the University of Oxford's museums, libraries and botanic garden stand. XTOUR maps the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers museums, the Bodleian Old Library, the Radcliffe Camera, Christ Church Cathedral and Oxford Botanic Garden in the city; Blenheim Palace at Woodstock is reached from Oxford and is not part of it.
City · United Kingdom
York is a city in North Yorkshire, England, which its tourism organisation Visit York describes as a city with Roman roots and a Viking past where ancient walls surround the centre. XTOUR maps York Minster, Clifford's Tower, the JORVIK Viking Centre, the National Railway Museum, the Yorkshire Museum and the City Walls in the city, and treats Castle Howard as a place reached from York, not part of it.
City · Japan
Beppu is a city in Oita Prefecture, Japan. The Beppu Jigoku Kumiai, the Beppu Hell Association, operates seven jigoku or hells in the Kannawa district, and the city's own English site lists Beppu Beach Sand Bath among its hot springs.
City · Japan
Fukuoka is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. The operator of Fukuoka Tower describes views over the city and Hakata Bay from its observation levels, and the city holds venues such as Marine World Uminonakamichi and teamLab Forest Fukuoka.
Town · Japan
Hakone is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, covering about 93 square kilometres. On XTOUR it covers the day tours from Tokyo that stop at Lake Ashi and its surroundings.
Region · Japan
Ishigaki Island (石垣島) is an island of Okinawa Prefecture, roughly 400 km south-west of Okinawa Island by the island centres' coordinates. XTOUR maps its tours and its Yaima Village cultural park here.
City · Japan
Kamakura is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, in Japan's Kantō region on the island of Honshu, designated a city in 1939. On XTOUR it covers the day tours from Tokyo that stop at its sights.
City · Japan
Kanazawa is the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture. Kenrokuen Garden in the city is described by its operator, the prefecture's Gold Leaf Castle and Kenrokuen Garden Management Office, as a Special Place of Scenic Beauty and one of Japan's three great gardens.
Region · Japan
Fujikawaguchiko is a town in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, covering about 158 square kilometres. On XTOUR this destination groups the day tours from Tokyo that stop around Lake Kawaguchi, Fujiyoshida and Oshino.
City · Japan
Kobe is the capital city of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers the city's harbour-side museum and aquarium, the hot springs of Arima Onsen and hands-on workshops.
City · Japan
Kyoto is a city in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers the city's guided tours and other activities, including the day tours that start from Osaka.
City · Japan
Nagasaki is the capital city of Nagasaki Prefecture on Kyushu, Japan. The Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture stands on the Tateyama hillside, and the City of Nagasaki runs the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Urakami.
City · Japan
Nagoya is the capital of Aichi Prefecture. The city's tourism site lists Nagoya Castle and the Chubu Electric Power MIRAI TOWER among its attractions and promotes the local food it calls Nagoya meshi.
City · Japan
Nara is a city in Nara Prefecture, Japan, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers the city's guided tours and other activities, including the day tours that start from Osaka.
City · Japan
Noboribetsu is a city in Hokkaido that its city website describes as known for hot spring areas, including Noboribetsu Onsen, and for Jigokudani (Hell Valley). Noboribetsu Bear Park, Noboribetsu Date Jidaimura and Noboribetsu Marine Park Nixe are three separate venues within the city.
Region · Japan
Okinawa Island (沖縄本島) is the main island of Okinawa Prefecture and, according to Wikidata, the smallest of the five main islands of Japan. XTOUR maps venues across it, from Naha and Tomigusuku in the south to Onna, Nago, Motobu and Nakijin in the north.
City · Japan
Osaka is a designated city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers the city's observation decks, castle, bathhouses, food tours, cruises and other activities, plus the day trips that start from it.
City · Japan
Sapporo is the capital of Hokkaido. Its city tourism site lists Odori Park, where it says outdoor events are held, and the Sapporo Snow Festival among its highlights. XTOUR maps its observation decks, ropeway and museums at their own sites rather than at the city centre.
City · Japan
Tokyo is the capital and largest city of Japan, according to Wikidata. On XTOUR it covers the city's walking and food tours, workshops, sightseeing buses and other activities, plus the day trips that start from it.
City · Japan
Yokohama is a designated city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, made up of 18 administrative wards according to the city's own site. On XTOUR it covers attractions and experiences in the city, such as Sankeien garden and venues in the Minato Mirai district.
Resort Area · Malaysia
Desaru Coast is a beach resort development at Desaru, in the Kota Tinggi district on the east coast of Johor, along the beach known as Pantai Desaru. Its developer's site lists resort hotels including Anantara, The Westin, Hard Rock Hotel and Mandarin Oriental, the Desaru Coast Adventure Waterpark and a ferry terminal. Local nature activities here are run with hotel pick-ups in the Desaru Coast area.
Mountain Resort · Malaysia
Genting Highlands is a hill resort on the Pahang-Selangor border in Malaysia, which Tourism Pahang says was founded in 1965. It is run as the Resorts World Genting development, with attractions at different elevations, from the Genting SkyWorlds and Skytropolis theme parks near the summit to Eufloria and the golf course at mid-hill. Two cable cars, the Genting SkyWay and the Awana SkyWay, link the mid-hill stations with the top, where the operator puts the Awana SkyWay's upper station at 1,725 m above sea level.
City · Malaysia
Ipoh is the state capital of Perak, in the Kinta district of Peninsular Malaysia. The Lost World of Tambun theme park, run by a Sunway company, is in Sunway City Ipoh at Tambun.
City · Malaysia
Johor Bahru is a city and the state capital of Johor, at the southern tip of Peninsular Malaysia. ESCAPE Johor Bahru is in Paradigm Mall on Jalan Skudai, and LEGOLAND Malaysia Resort lies west of the city in Iskandar Puteri, a separate municipality that its operator gives as the resort's address.
City · Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur is the capital city of Malaysia and a federal territory of about 244 km², bordered by the state of Selangor. The PETRONAS Twin Towers and Kuala Lumpur Tower stand in its centre, while Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) lies outside the city in Sepang, Selangor, linked to KL Sentral station by the KLIA Ekspres train.
Town · Malaysia
Kuala Selangor is a town on the Selangor River in Kuala Selangor District, on the Straits of Malacca coast of Selangor. Boats leave from its jetties to the Sky Mirror sandbar offshore, and at night for firefly trips on the river. Visit Selangor lists three firefly jetties: Kampung Bukit Belimbing, Kampung Kuantan and Pasir Penambang.
Island · Malaysia
Langkawi is an archipelago in the Malaysian state of Kedah that LADA, its development authority, describes as 99 forested tropical islands, with Kuah as the main town on the largest island. LADA says UNESCO recognised the archipelago as a Global Geopark in 2007, with three geoforest parks: Kilim Karst, Machinchang Cambrian and Dayang Bunting Marble. Ferries from Kuala Kedah, Kuala Perlis and Satun in Thailand arrive at Kuah Jetty.
City · Malaysia
Melaka (Malacca City) is the capital of the Malaysian state of Melaka, on the Straits of Malacca. Its historic centre is part of the UNESCO World Heritage property "Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca", inscribed in 2008, which UNESCO describes as shaped by over 500 years of trading and cultural exchange between East and West.
Region · Malaysia
Penang is a Malaysian state made up of Penang Island and a strip of the mainland, Seberang Perai, linked by ferry and two road bridges. Its capital, George Town, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage property Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca, inscribed in 2008, where UNESCO says George Town represents the British era from the end of the 18th century. Above the city, Penang Hill is part of the Penang Hill Biosphere Reserve in UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme.