ThereArePlaces provides concise, online travel guides to over 40 of the Best Places to Visit around the world. We offer unbiased travel information designed to help you find your next vacation destination.

We've been working with Magnify.net to search the Web for informative travel videos of the Best Places to Visit. We now have videos for Rome, Venice, Florence, Tuscany , Milan, London, Paris, Switzerland and will be adding other videos for destinations throughout Europe soon. Just click any video in a widget to view it.

Like our site, our lists of videos are concise. To be honest, there are thousands out there, but many of them are uninformative or advertisements for businesses. We are spending a great deal of time curating the videos to bring you the very best.

Travel News

New Ireland Travel Guide

In mid-July, 2008 we published our new, comprehensive guide to the best places to visit in Ireland. Our coverage now includes 12 pages of content, new photos and additional detailed maps of the location of the best places to visit in Ireland. Give it a look and let us know your thoughts.

Site Changes
We've changed our design to show pages in the center of your screen (viewing area). The advantage for you is simple, you will be able to print most pages directly from the screen. As a consequence we have dropped our custom print pages from our section on Travel Planning.

If you want to jump right in, just click here for our Destination Guide Homepage, or click below for the vacation destinations we cover in:
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Try our NEW guide to Ireland

If you want the best of the best, to the right, you can link to the country and city destinations most popular with users of ThereArePlaces.

Turkey has many hidden delights. Our travel guides include the leading attractions in each country and describe why you might want to visit. Each of our vacation guides is hierarchical - we start with the best attractions and then cover other attractions that you might want to visit while in the area.

For leading cities we provide detailed city guides and for numerous popular Monaco awaits you attractions we often provide photo-guides. Our site is Euro-centric, but we also cover the leading destinations in Asia, the Pacific, and North America. So, click Best Places to Visit to see a list of places covered by our worldwide vacation guides.

If you need some advice about how to prepare for travel, see the section below.

Travel Planning Guides

Isn't it about time to start planning your next vacation?

Our Travel Planning Guides provide recommendations on what you need to know to get going. We cover passports and visas, tips on exchanging currency, buying the right luggage, packing clothes, and other useful topics. All of our two-hundred-plus articles are concise and to the point. We bet we cover some suggestions that have not occurred to you - like the one below.

Like to doodle?

When preparing for your next trip, why not expand your horizons? For example, have you thought about taking a watercolor set and painting to memorialize your trip? The scene below is a charming view from we happened upon during a hike around Mt. Ste. Michel in Normandy, France.

St. Aubert's Chapel at Mont Sainte Michel, France

Our most popular country- vacation destinations: Italy
France
Germany
Switzerland
Spain
Greece
Mexico
Austria
United Kingdom
Sweden
Ireland
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Our most popular city-vacation destinations include:

Rome
London
Paris
Venice
Florence
Madrid
Barcelona
Amsterdam
Athens
Munich
Dublin

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Audio on ThereArePlaces

We've added some audio spots to the site. They are set to play only if you click the play button shown by the ">". We designed them to add a little extra information about the site or section where the player appears. The content of the audio is described in text positioned below the player.