Skip the lines in Paris and visit these picturesque towns and villages, where the crowds are fewer and the pace is slower.

Across Europe, modernization has reshaped cities and towns at a relentless pace, often erasing the physical traces of earlier ...

Reykjavík isn’t what it used to be. The Icelandic capital’s main shopping street, Laugavegur, now belongs to tourism. Shops bill themselves in English, not Icelandic: Icemart, Chuck Norris Grill, a ...