Your favourite ever city break

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We're lucky enough to have enjoyed a number of city breaks since children were old enough to be left at home. Looking for ideas for more unusual places to visit. As it's just for a weekend, don't want particularly long flights - max 3 hours pref less.
We've been to: Paris; Berlin; Munich; Frankfurt; Vienna; Innsbruck; Marrakesh; Prague; Budapest; Lisbon; Dubrovnik; Split

On the list already are: Bruges; Amsterdam; Milan; Seville; Bilbao; Madrid; Carcassonne; Krakow

Where have you visited that you'd strongly recommend as a werkend destination? Apologies in advance if I say we've already been somewhere you suggest, I've not listed the places we've visited on summer holidays

Rome
Copenhagen
Monaco
Nice

Valetta is awesome - its warm, easy to get around and it's a World Heritage Centre as well. It's a tiny bit further but absolutely worth it.

Rome
Barcelona
New York
Cape town
Dallas
New Orleans

Ljubiana - lovely people and atmosphere
Florence
Oslo or Stockholm - but can be expensive
Funchal - love the place. Good temperature, things to do and lovely people and hotels

Thank you all. Wouldn't fly transatlantic for a weekend but noted as possibilities for part of a longer holiday.

San Sebastián is excellent and a very quick bus ride from Bilbao...

Stockholm, Belfast, Edinburgh, Heidelberg - loved all of these.

I'd recommend Ghent over Bruges as it's livelier due to the university. Maastricht and Groningen are also great.

Malaga. It's up there with Barcelona for me. The malagueños are delightfully welcoming, lovely clean streets with grand buildings, the Alcazabar fort in the centre, the old Moorish town, Picasso, the sea, the blue skies and temperatures in the late teens in February. We go every year.

Siena has been highly recommended to me. It's on my list

My favourites are:

Porto
Seville
Montpellier
Ljubljana
Bordeaux
Granada

For somewhere a bit different would also recommend Sarajevo, although as far as I know no direct flights from the UK, so that probably rules it out for now...

Of the ones on your list that I have been to I liked Bruges but much preferred Ghent and was dissapointed by Carcassonne, had wanted to go there for ages but the Cite was just a crowded tourist trap full of tacky souvenir shops and mediocre restaurants, while Carcassonne was a pleasant enough but fairly ordinary French town. The Cite does look stunning from a distance though. :)

I had a lovely weekend in Brussels once, didn’t plan it and just went to the airport and booked onto nearest flight. Great architecture, people watching cafes and chocolate.

Monaco is fab but expensive.

Copenhagen, Bergen, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, Krakow far exceeded my expectations. Had a short unexpected free trip to Budapest on return(!) from Berlin thanks to Ryanair and will definitely go back. Love Monte Carlo.

On my list are Granada, Porto, so many places!

And Athens. See the sunset with a glass of wine from the rooftop of the Acropolis museum. Have been lucky enough to go lots as dh worked there for a while.

Definitely Bordeaux. Such a lovely city with brilliant transport links.

Oh my, so many replies - truly spoilt for choice now!! Thank you all

I really liked Naples. Choose a hotel overlooking the bay, then take a boat to Capri and a short train ride to POmpei. Together with great restaurants and an interesting city it makes for a wonderful city break. You can trek up Vesuvius too, but I didn’t haha.

Went to Madrid last August and absolutely loved it. Perfect for a weekend break with great food and cheap too!

Cordoba in Andalucia - beautiful, not too big, the Mezquita is stunning. Lovely and warm in spring. Gorgeous patio garden festival in May!

www.cordoba24.info/english/html/patios.html

Stockholm, the Vasa museum alone is worth the visit.

Wasn’t keen on Prague and actively disliked Madrid.

Vienna, Paris, Rome, Barcelona all very enjoyable.

Madrid - did tapas tour on first night. Made the whole trip as don't think we would have liked it as much without it, or eaten nearly as well. Kept walking past British people going into crap restaurants for the rest of the week or seeing them looking a bit intimidated outside heaving places while we had been taught our barging skills and where to eat where definitely not.

At beginning of week we were in no way the sort of people who would have been hanging out in a dodgy looking Athletico Madrid hangout eating snails but we were by the end

Downside - put on half a stone, never lost it, 6 months of dieting in the bin

Tallinn
Cluj-Napoca

Malaga is lovely

From the UK : Paris

North America : NYC

Tallinn! It was bloody brilliant, we had a fabulous time. The little cafe in the walls with hot chocolates and blankets was a particular highlight