Ditch the tourist-riddled monuments, overpriced boutiques and banal Instagrammable cafés and instead head to the local flea market.
It’s by far the best way to peer into a city’s soul – like a rambling curiosity cabinet revealing the belongings of its people, how they lived, what they valued. Europe gleefully serves up this dose of antiquity with plenty of nods to its gilded age and ultimately tapping into our primal instinct to hunt for buried treasure.
