Five amazing cities you need to visit in 2025
The IndependentLast year was surely the year of the city break big hitter. This compact, charming city is less than two hours from Warsaw on the train and it’s got it all: a colourful cobblestoned Old Town, colossally grand and extremely well-priced hotels, a burgeoning art scene that includes the vast multi-disciplinary modernist gallery CSK, and hometown breweries producing brilliant beer. Aarhus, Denmark Aarhus arthouse: international works on display at the ARoS art musuem Away from the clamour and crowds of Copenhagen, Denmark’s understated second city is quietly emerging as a big player in its own right. Plovdiv, Bulgaria Kapana, Plovdiv’s creative heart, blends vibrant street art, indie cafés, and natural beauty nestled between historic hills Bulgaria’s second city stakes a claim to be Europe’s oldest continually inhabited urban space, and remnants of its epic history are everywhere – from its astonishing Roman amphitheatre to its handsome 19th-century mansion houses. Don’t mis Villa Tugendhat, one of the great iterations of the International Style designed by German architects Mies van der Rohe and Lily Reich, and Villa Löw-Beer, a handsome art nouveau residence.
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