Yes, you can’t go very many places in Europe without seeing great architecture that is great enough for even a layman like myself to appreciate it. I have spent much more time in Italy than in France and can get my fill of it there without having to go to France. I have quickly hit the high spots in Paris, but the way Americans are treated by many in France takes the fun out of it. Prague and Bruges(sp?) in Belgium are treasure troves of architecture too. The old downtown Brussels is another one.

In 2017 I checked off an item really high at the top of my bucket list. There is a theater in Prague where portions of the movie Amadeus was filmed. It is the Estates Theater in Prague. Mozart conducted the premier performance of Don Giovanni there and it has been perfectly maintained all these years. I tried to make it there in the early 2000’s when I worked in Europe a lot, but never made it. On my bucket list was the simple desire to just be able to see the opera hall and walk around inside. That was accomplished except I also saw a performance of Don Giovanni there. It was an experience I can never forget.

Another architecture related bucket list item was seeing Leonardo Davincci’s Last Supper. It was on my late wife’s bucket list and she and I saw it right after it was painstakingly restored in 2000, along with the Duomo and a few of the other treasures in Milan. My current wife and I saw the painting and the Milan sites in 2017 and I would go back again it was so good, but there is too much other good stuff I have yet to see over there.

Bruges has very interesting Mid evil architecture including waterways much like Venice.

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