Green space

A tree-lined waterfall tumbling over rocks, evoking the Kreuzberg waterfall in Berlin's Viktoriapark.

Viktoriapark: Berlin’s Only Waterfall and Its Best Free Hilltop View

Viktoriapark is a hillside park in Berlin's Kreuzberg, built around the city's highest inner-city natural point, with a landscaped artificial waterfall and…

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Berlin

Tempelhofer Feld: Berlin’s Dead Airport Turned Giant People’s Park

Tempelhofer Feld is Berlin's former Tempelhof airport, closed in 2008 and turned into a free public park where the two 2 km…

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Tree-lined gravel avenue carpeted with autumn leaves running between old headstones in a park-like cemetery.

Copenhagen

Assistens Cemetery: Copenhagen’s Prettiest Park Where Andersen and Kierkegaard Rest

Assistens Cemetery in Nørrebro is a leafy 1760 graveyard that Copenhageners use as a park — a quiet, local alternative to the…

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Disused railway tracks overgrown with wild vegetation

Paris

La Petite Ceinture du 15e: Walk Paris’s Abandoned Railway Line

The Petite Ceinture is the 36km freight railway that circled Paris until the 1980s, and the 1.3km stretch through the 15th arrondissement…

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London

The Barbican Conservatory: London’s Hidden Jungle in a Concrete Maze

Hidden on the third floor of the Barbican's brutalist concrete estate is a steamy tropical glasshouse packed with more than 1,500 species…

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Vienna

Zentralfriedhof: Vienna’s City-Sized Cemetery Where Beethoven and Falco Share a Postcode

Vienna's Zentralfriedhof is a 2.5-square-kilometre cemetery-park where Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Johann Strauss and the pop star Falco are buried within a short…

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