World Directory, Europe, Greece, Macedonia, Thessaloniki

Thessalonik, Thessalonica, or Salonica is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of Macedonia, the nation's largest region.

World Directory, Europe, Greece, Crete, Chania

Loutro lies on the south coast of Chania Prefecture in west Crete, between Chora Sfakion and Agia Roumeli, the exit to the Samaria Gorge. The whole area is known as Sfakia and the inhabitants, the Sfakians, are fierce, proud mountain dwellers. They have taken part in every struggle against the foreign invaders of Crete, whether Venetian, Turkish or German.

World Directory, Europe, Greece, Peloponnese, Messenia

Kalamata is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The capital and chief port of the Messenia prefecture, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf.

World Directory, Europe, Greece, Epirus, Thesprotia

Plataria is a town and resort in Thesprotia prefecture, which is located in the periphery of Epirus, Greece.

World Directory, Europe, Italy, Emilia-Romagna, Forli-Cesena

Cesenatico and the sea are one and the same thing. The ancient coloured sails of the Marine Museum, which greet the people who arrive and leave tell of this.

World Directory, Europe, Italy, Liguria, Genoa

San Michele di Pagana (San Michê in Ligurian language) is a fraction of the town of Rapallo in Genova. It is approximately one and a half kilometers from Rapallo and many from the nearby coastal town of Santa Margherita Ligure, which borders the village.

World Directory, Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Livorno

Portoferraio is a town and commune in the province of Livorno, on the edge of the eponymous harbour of the island of Elba. It is the island's largest city. Because of its terrain, many of its buildings are situated on the slopes of a tiny hill surrounded on three sides by the sea.

World Directory, Europe, Italy, Apulia, Bari

Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia or, in Italian, Puglia region, on the Adriatic sea, in Italy.

World Directory, Europe, Switzerland, Basel-City, Basel-City

Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city (166,209[2] inhabitants (2008)). With 731,000 inhabitants in the tri-national metropolitan area (as of 2004), Basel is Switzerland's third-largest urban area.

World Directory, Europe, Spain, Galicia, Pontevedra

A Coruna in Spanish La Coruna is the second largest city in Galicia in northwestern Spain, second only in size to the port of Vigo in the Pontevedra Province. The city is also the capital of A Coruña Province and it was the capital of Galicia from the year 1563 to 1982 when it moved to Santiago de Compostela.