Top 10 cities
1 SALZBURG, AUSTRIA
POPULATION: 153,377
LANGUAGE: GERM AN
UNIT OF CURRENCY: EU RO
The Salzburg Festival is turning 100, and this heart-stealer of an Alpine city is singing about it at the top of its
.One s greatest classical music shindigs, the festival is always a riotous feast of opera, classical music and drama – and never more so than in 2020. Salzburg will be pulling out all the stops for the centenary, with special exhibitions and events taking place all over the historic centre – concerts, plays, readings, Mozart matinees, you name it. Top billing, as always, will go to Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Jedermann, based on several medieval mystery plays and performed in all its glory in Domplatz. So, dust off your dirndl orlederhosen, book your tickets months ahead, and get ready to rock into the summer like Amadeus.
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UNMISSABLE EXPERIENCE
Belt out Do-re-mi and other The Sound of Music faves with a 3½-hour spin around movie locations with Fräulein Maria’s Bicycle Tours. Stops include the Mirabellgarten, Benedictine Nonnberg Abbey and palaces Schloss Leopoldskron and Hellbrunn.
2 WASHINGTON DC, THE USA
POPULATION: 702,445
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
UNIT OF CURRENCY: US DOLLAR
All eyes will be on Washington, DC, this year, as the city celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment – the law that granted American women the right to vote. Iconic museums like the National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of American History and the National Museum
