Madeira, Portugal 1, 2, 3, 4
Madrid, Spain 1, 2, 3, 4
Mafia 1, 2, 3
magic 1, 2, 3
Maginot Line 1, 2
Mahler, Gustav 1, 2
Mainz, Germany 1, 2, 3, 4
Majorca, Spain 922, 1, 2
Malta 1, 2, 3
Man, Isle of 1, 2
Manchester, England 1
Mann, Thomas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic 1
Marie, Queen of Romania 1
Maria Theresa, Empress 1, 2
Marienbad (Mariánské Lázně) 1
Marseille, France 1, 2
Marx, Karl 1, 2, 3
Mary, Blessed Virgin 1, 2, 3, 4
Mary of Teck, Queen of Great Britain 1
Masham, England; Druids’ Temple 1
Mäuseturm (Mice Tower), Rhine 1
maze-games 1
Mecklenburg, Germany 1, 2
Medici family 1
Medjugorje, Bosnia 1
megalithic religion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Metternich, Prince Clemens 1, 2
Michelangelo 1, 2
Milan, Italy 1, 2, 3, 4
Mindszenty, Cardinal Jozséf 1
minority groups, ethnic 1
minority nations 1
Mitford, Nancy 1
Mölln, Germany 1, 2
Monaco 1, 2, 3
monks 1, 2
Montenegro 1, 2
Montgomery, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law 1, 2
Morris, Twm 1
Moryson, Fynes 1
Mosey, Don 1
Mostar, Bosnia 1, 2, 3, 4
mother, JM’s 1, 2
motorways 1
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1, 2, 3
Munich, Germany 1
music 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; and religion 1, 2;
see also anthems and individual composers
Mussolini, Benito 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Mynydd Carn, Wales 1
Naples, Italy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; relics 1, 2
Napoleon I, emperor of France 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; on Elba 1, 2;
and roads 1, 2;
and unity of Europe 1, 2, 3, 4
nation-states 1
Nauplia, Greece 1, 2, 3
navies 1, 2, 3, 4
Nazis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; and Jews 1, 2, 3,
(see also Holocaust);
Sachsenhain monument 1;
‘Strength through Joy’ 1;
supporters 1, 2;
and Vienna 1;
and Wends 1;
Wiesenthal and 1;
also Hitler, Adolf
Ness, Monster of Loch 1
Netherlands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; flag 1;
influence 1;
royal family 1, 2;
war of independence 1
Nice, France 1
Nicholas I, King of Montenegro 1, 2
Nicosia, Cyprus 1
Normandy, France 1, 2
North Cape, Norway 1
Norway 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; far north 1, 2;
flag 1, 2;
Ibsen and 1, 2
nostalgia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
oil resources 1, 2
Olivetti typewriters 1
Olympic Games, Barcelona 1, 2
opera 1, 2
Orange Order 1
Orient Express 1
Orkney, Scotland 1, 2
O’Shaughnessy, Arthur 1
Oslo, Norway 1, 2, 3
Ottoman Empire 1, 2, 3
Oxford, England 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Padua, Italy 1, 2, 3
paganism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; neo- 1, 2;
see also megalithic religion
Paladins, Corsica (menhirs) 1
Palermo, Sicily 1, 2
Pamplona, Spain 1, 2, 3
Paris, France 1; airport 1;
arts 1;
boulevards 1, 2;
Disneyland 1;
Élysée Palace 1;
food 1;
Irish in 1;
Islamic Centre 1;
Les Invalides 1;
Notre-Dame 1, 2;
Périphérique 1;
Rothschilds 1, 2;
Seine 1;
Sorbonne 1;
student rebellions 1, 2
Parker, Dorothy 1
parliaments 1, 2; European 1, 2;
see also under Britain
Partinico, Sicily 1
‘Pasionaria, La’ (Dolores Ibárurri Gómez) 1, 2
Passau, Germany 1, 2
Peleş. Castle, Sinaia, Romania 1, 2
Pelisor Castle, Romania 1
Peter, St 1, 2
Petržalka, Czech Republic 1
Philip II, King of Spain 1, 2, 3
pilgrimages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; roads 1, 2, 3
Poland 1; anthem 1;
aristocracy 1;
Church 1, 2;
exiles 1; frontiers 2, 3;
Germans in 1;
Gypsies 1;
Jews 1, 2, 3;
Kashubians 1;
music 1, 2;
post-Communist 1;
Warsaw Rising (1944) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
see also individual places
Pollecoff family 1
pollution 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Polperro, England 1
Pont an Abad (Pont l’Abbé), France 1
Popes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Portmeirion, Wales 1
Portugal 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Camoëns 1, 2;
churches 1, 2;
empire 1, 2;
Habsburgs 1, 2
postal services 1, 2, 3
Pozsony see Bratislava
Prague 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Charles Bridge 1, 2
prayers 1, 2
Pressburg see Bratislava
Princip, Gavrilo 1
prostitution 1, 2
Proust, Marcel 1, 2, 3
Prussia 1, 2; East 3, 4, 5
Psiloritis, Mount, Crete 1
pubs 1, 2
Quixote, Don (fictional character) 1, 2
railways 1, 2, 3
Ramsden, Harry 1
Rapallo, Italy 1
Regensburg, Germany 1, 2, 3, 4
Reguengos, Portugal 1
religion 1; animism 1;
atavism 1;
Druids 1;
festivals 1, 2, 3;
and superstitions 1, 2, 3;
syncretism 1;
and unity 1;
see also Christianity;
death-cult;
megalithic religion;
paganism;
pilgrimage;
stones,
sacred;
witchcraft
Rembrandt 1, 2
Rendsburg, Germany 1
Reykjavik, Iceland 1, 2, 3, 4
Rhine, river 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Rhône, river 1, 2
Rhys ap Tewdwr 1
Riga, Latvia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Russians and 1, 2
Ripon, England 1
Risorgimento 1, 2
rivers 1, 2
roads 1, 2;
Roman 1, 2
rocks, sacred see stones
Roman Catholic Church 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; on Barra 1;
in Ireland 1, 2, 3;
medieval 1;
monks 1, 2;
in Poland 1, 2;
see also Mary, Blessed
Virgin;
Popes
Roman empire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; roads 1, 2
Romania 1; Bulgarian frontier 1, 2;
expatriates 1;
minorities 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (Gypsies) 6, 7, 8, 9;
World Wars 1, 2;
see also Ceauşescu, Nicolae and individual places
Rome 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Church 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (see also Popes);
Gypsies 1, 2, 3
Roncesvalles, Pass of 1, 2
Rostock, Germany 1
Rothschild family 1, 2
Rotterdam, Netherlands 1, 2, 3, 4
royalty 1
Rüdesheim, Germany 1, 2
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria 1
Rügen
, Germany 1, 2
‘Ruin, The’ (Anglo-Saxon poem) 1, 2
Ruse; Friendship Bridge 1
Russia: and Baltic region 1, 2, 3; and Bulgaria 1;
child ballet dancers 1;
and Finland 1, 2;
Germans in 1;
influence 1;
residents abroad 1, 2;
Viking trade 1;
World War II 1
Russo-Turkish War (1877) 1
Rütli, field of, Switzerland 1
Saalburg, Germany 1
Sachsenhain, Germany 1
Sacromonte people 1
St Bernard Pass, Alps 1
Saint-Laurent, Yves 1
St Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia 1, 2
Salzburg, Austria 1
Sami 1
San Marino 1
Santiago de Compostela, Spain 1, 2, 3
Sarajevo, Bosnia 1, 2, 3
Sardinia 1, 2, 3, 4
Schaulen (Šiauliai), Lithuania 1
Schiller, Friedrich 1, 2, 3, 4
Schleswig, Germany 1, 2, 3
Schnakenburg, Germany 1, 2
Scone, Stone of 1
Scotland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
seaside resorts 1
Secret, Third, of Fátima 1, 2
Serbia 1, 2
Serbian Orthodox Church 1, 2
Serbs 1, 2
Sergius, St 1, 2
Seville, Spain 1, 2
Shakespeare, William 1, 2, 3, 4
Shetland, Scotland 1, 2
ship-graves, Gotland 1
Shipka Pass, Battle of, Bulgaria 1
ships 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Šiauliai (Schaulen), Lithuania 1
Sicily 1, 2, 3
Simplon Pass, Alps 1
Sinaia, Romania; Peleş, Castle 1, 2
Sixt, Haute-Savoie, France 1
Skanderbeg (Alexander Bey) 1, 2, 3
skiing 1, 2
Slovakia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Slovenia 1, 2
smuggling 1, 2
Sofia, Bulgaria 1, 2, 3
Spain 1, 2; Basques 1;
Catalans 1;
Civil War 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
empire 1, 2, 3, 4;
English and 1, 2, 3;
food 1;
Gypsies 1;
influence 1, 2, 3;
Islam 1, 2;
Jews 1;
language 1;
Llivia enclave in France 1;
Napoleonic kingdom 1;
and Nazism 1;
and Netherlands 1;
religion and beliefs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
royal family 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
see also individual places
spas 1, 2
Split, Croatia 1, 2
sport 1
Spree, river 1
Stalin, Josef 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Stephen, St 1;
crown of 1
Stockholm, Sweden 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Stonehenge 1
stones, sacred 1; built into churches 1, 2;
Charlemagne’s throne 1, 2;
Christianity and 1;
Croagh Patrick 1;
mock-megalithic monuments 1;
and St Peter 1, 2; of
Scone 1;
see also megalithic religion
Strasbourg, France 1, 2, 3
street performers 1
Sudetenland 1, 2
Suez Canal 1, 2
sun, dancing of 1
Suomenlinna (Seaborg), Finland 1
superstitions 1, 2
Švejk (fictional character) 1, 2, 3
Svevo, Italo 1, 2
Sweden 1, 2, 3, 4; empire 1, 2;
flag 1, 2;
islands 1, 2, 3;
Lapps 1;
royalty 1, 2, 3, 4;
see also individual places
Światowit (god) 1, 2
Switzerland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Büsingen German enclave 1;
transport 1, 2, 3;
see also individual places
Sylt, Germany 1
Tallinn, Estonia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Tara, Hill of, Eire 1
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 1, 2
Teresa, Mother 1
Teutonic Knights 1, 2, 3
Thames, river 1
Thurn und Taxis, house of 1
Tiber, river 1
Tiberius, Roman emperor 1, 2
Tiemeloberg, Germany 1
Till Eugenspiegel 1
Tirana, Albania 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Tito, Marshal (Josip Broz) 1, 2, 3
Tomar, Portugal 1
Topolino (car) 1, 2
Tórshavn, Faroe Islands 1
touching for luck 1, 2
Toulon, France 1, 2, 3
tourism 1, 2
Trabant cars 1
trade 1, 2, 3
Trahaearn ap Caradog 1
trains 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Trakai, Lithuania 1
trams 1
travel 1; see also individual modes
Trier, Germany 1, 2, 3
Trieste, Italy 1, 2, 3, 4; British in 1, 2, 3, 4;
churches 1, 2;
communications 1, 2, 3;
Europeanness 1, 2;
Jews 1;
political history 1, 2, 3, 4;
Roman Tergeste 1
Trojeborg, Gotland 1
Trouville, France 1
tunnels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Turgenev, Ivan 1
Turkey 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; see also Ottoman Empire
twinning of cities 1
U and non-U 1
Ukraine 1, 2
Ulm, Germany 1, 2
Union Flag 1, 2
flag 1, 2, 3;
influence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
unity, European 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
universities 1, 2
Ustashi 1
Vaduz, Liechtenstein 1
Valetta, Malta 1, 2
Valhalla, Germany 1, 2
Vassiltchikov, Marie 1
Vatican City, Rome 1, 2
Venice, Italy 1, 2; airport 1, 2;
bells 1;
Doges 1, 2;
funeral of Pius X 1;
gondoliers 1;
Harry’s Bar 1;
horses of St Mark 1, 2;
influence 1, 2, 3;
Jews 1;
Pink Floyd concert 1;
religion 1;
routes 1, 2, 3;
tourism 1, 2;
trade fairs 1;
walking ‘through the linings’ 1
Verdi, Giuseppe 1, 2
Vetsera, Baroness Maria 1
Vichy, France 1, 2
Victoria, Queen 1, 2
Vienna, Austria 1; Christmas 1;
communications 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Danube 1, 2;
Habsburg burials 1, 2;
Nazis and 1;
Ottoman siege 1;
post-war occupation 1;
Ringstrasse 1, 2;
Rothschilds 1, 2;
Spanish Riding School 1;
university 1, 2
Vikings 1, 2, 3
Vilnius, Lithuania 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
religion 1, 2
Visby, Sweden 1, 2, 3
Vltava, river 1, 2
Vojvodina, Serbia 1
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
votives 1, 2
Waddesdon Manor, England 1
Wagner, Richard 1, 2
Wales 1;
anthem 1;
archers’ V-sign 1;
and Brittany 1;
castles 1;
dragons 1, 2;
Druids 1;
and English 1, 2;
flag 1;
food 1, 2;
foreign residents 1, 2, 3;
frontier 1, 2;
Gypsies 1;
islands 1;
Jews 1;
JM’s allegiance to 1, 2, 3 ;
language 1, 2, 3;
littl
e trains 1;
religion 1;
rocks 1, 2;
Romans in 1;
spas 1;
see also individual places
war memorials 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Warsaw, Poland 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Rising (1944) 1, 2. 3, 4
waterways, inland 1
Watts, Peter 1, 2
Weggis, Switzerland 1, 2
Weimar, Germany 1, 2, 3
Wends 1
Westerland, Sylt, Germany 1, 2
Wiesenthal, Dr Simon 1
Wilhelm I, Kaiser 1, 2, 3
Wilhelm II, Kaiser 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
and navy 1, 2;
promotes Germanity 1
Williams-Ellis, Clough 1
witchcraft 1, 2, 3
Wittelsbach kings of Bavaria 1, 2, 3
women, power of 1
Wood, Abram 1
World War I 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Lancashire Fusiliers 1;
memorials 1;
songs 1
World War II;
and astrology 1;
Arnhem landings 1;
Atlantic Wall 1, 2; Audace in 1;
Berlin 1, 2, 3;
bombing 1, 2, 3;
Croatian fascist state 1;
Communist take-over after 1;
German minorities at end of 1;
memorials 1;
neutral countries
1, 2;
occupation, post-war 1;
Polish diaspora 1;
Sudetenland issue 1, 2;
see also under individual countries
Württemberg, Germany 1, 2
Yeats, W. B. 1
Yugoslavia, former 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; disintegration 1, 2, 3;
and Trieste 1, 2, 3;
see also individual places and states
Zagreb, Croatia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; beliefs 1, 2
Zurich, Switzerland 1, 2
About the Author
Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea.