You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Beyond ancient ruins and nuns spinning on verdant hillsides, Europe is currently reinventing itself through sustainable design, innovative cuisine, and a surging rail network. This small continent crams in so much that you can visit again and again and never grow tired. Europe claims six of the 10 most visited countries in the world – seven if you include Turkey, which is partly in Europe – and a significant proportion of the most-visited tourist sites and monuments. No surprise then that this continent has disproportionately influenced world culture and cuisine and is dense in history, relatively safe and easy to get around. Yet despite it being so visited, tourists have an odd relationship with Europe, which they persist in seeing as pickled in the past: a quaint place of clanking knights, classical composers and singing nuns.…