15 of the most beautiful villages in Europe for travel snob

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Almost everyone loves a pretty village, you know a place where the houses are impossibly perfect and time just seems to stand still. Well, luckily Europe has plenty!

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Eze, France

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Surrounded by woodland and the fabled rolling hills of Tuscany is Pitigliano – an ancient small town built on sheer cliffs.

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The Job

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The Job

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Wengen is an impossibly perfect example of an Alpine village where traditional timber chalets cling to the slopes of the Lauterbrunnen Valley.

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Obidos, Portugal

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15 of the most beautiful villages in Europe for travel snob

Almost everyone loves a pretty village, you know a place where the houses are impossibly perfect and time just seems to stand still. Well, luckily Europe has plenty!

Eze, France

Surrounded by woodland and the fabled rolling hills of Tuscany is Pitigliano – an ancient small town built on sheer cliffs.

Pitigliano, Italy

The Job

Polperro, England

The popular English holiday county of Cornwall is filled with chocolate-box pretty villages, but perhaps the most beautiful is Polperro.

The Job

Wengen is an impossibly perfect example of an Alpine village where traditional timber chalets cling to the slopes of the Lauterbrunnen Valley.

Wengen, Switzerland

Obidos, Portugal

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