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Fireworks burst over the Eiffel Tower during traditional Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.

Talamone, Italy, has beautiful beaches, including the Bagno Delle Donne. The village is in Maremma, which runs on the southern border of the Uccellina mountain range.

A masked reveler poses outside St. Mark's Square during the Venetian Carnival in Venice.

The Aiguille du Midi cable car in service glides uphilll with Mont Blanc in the background in Chamonix in the French Alps. Chamonix-Mont Blanc was the home of the first Winter Olympics in 1924.

Limestone cliffs border the harbor at Sormiou, one of Marseille's calanques, or sea inlets, in France.

A police car passes Horseguards Parade, the London 2012 Olympic venue for the beach volleyball events. The beach volleyball arena takes center stage this summer in the historic center of London, close to many London landmarks such as the London Eye wheel, behind left, Big Ben, the houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace.

A woman walks in front of the exclusive village of Wollerau on the edge of Lake Zurich, in the canton of Schwyz, southwest of Zurich.

The Valencia Cathedral as seen from the Plaza de la Virgen in Valencia, Spain. The cathedral, located in the Centro Histórico, is Valencia’s religious anchor.

The tiny, whitewashed village of Castelo de Vide, Portugal, is seen from the castle tower.

Tourists visit the ancient Acropolis hill in Athens.

The island of Ios is seen from the Blue Star Paros vessel as it departs from the island during a nine-hour trip to the Greek islands of Paros, Naxos, Ios and Santorini, in the Aegean Sea.

A man steers his boat along the frozen lake Bled in northwestern Slovenia.

Dusk settles on bridges that cross the Moldau River in central Prague.

People walk outside the Temple Bar Pub in Dublin.

A fountain gushes in the courtyard of a famous Dresden landmark, the Zwinger Palace, in Germany. The baroque palace, once a venue for courtly entertainment, now houses porcelain and art museums.

A view of the St. Andrews Castle built in 1412 overlooking the coast in St. Andrews, Scotland. The ruins of the city’s castle, once the main residence of the bishops and archbishops of St. Andrews, are one of the coveted gems of medieval Scotland.

Piz Beverin, Piz Tarantschun and Bruschghorn mountain, from left, frame the Safiental valley near Tenna, Grisons, Switzerland.

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Taking it slow on the Croatian island of Vis

“The Mediterranean as it once was.”

Bosnia’s star city, Mostar

“Are you 1,000 percent certain I’m not about to die?” I asked, eyeing my taxi driver with suspicion.

How to really see the Amalfi Coast? Walk it.

The ancient pathway was long and rocky. Lined with delicate orchids and scented by zesty lemon groves, it zigzagged up the mountain and out of view. Far below, waves crashed against giant boulders, and an endless succession of cars, coaches and mopeds swept around the countless hairpin bends.

Gathering 2013, a celebration with a kiss of the Irish

Over the centuries, the Irish have dispersed like clovers in the wind, alighting in lands far from their native soil. This year, the Emerald Isle is calling them back to their roots.

European destinations: Italy’s coast, Bosnia and Croatia

The Travel section explores Italy’s Amalfi Coast, Bosnia’s Mostar and Vis, Croatia, in the 2013 Europe Issue.

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