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Sunday is the day Amsterdam is most likely to catch you out. Here is what closes, what stays open, and a Sunday route that avoids every closed door.

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Tuesday is the day Madrid is most likely to catch you out. Here is what closes, what stays open, and a Tuesday route that avoids every closed door.

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Monday is the day Lisbon is most likely to catch you out. Here is what closes, what stays open, and a Monday route that avoids every closed door.

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Almost every major sight in Paris is open on a Sunday. What changes is the free first Sunday, the booking rules around it and the smaller places that close.

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Berlin's museums and big sights are open on Sundays, while most shops are closed. Here is what that means for a Sunday plan, and where a flea market takes over.

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The Vatican Museums are closed on Sundays, with one exception a month. Almost everything else in central Rome stays open. Here is what that means for a Sunday plan.

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Tuesday is the day Prague is most likely to catch you out. Here is what closes, what stays open, and a Tuesday route that avoids every closed door.

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Monday is the day Istanbul is most likely to catch you out. Here is what closes, what stays open, and a Monday route that avoids every closed door.

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Monday is the day Barcelona is most likely to catch you out. Here is what closes, what stays open, and a Monday route that avoids every closed door.

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Monday is the day Berlin's big museums close. Here is exactly which ones, which major sights stay open, and a full Monday route that avoids every closed door.

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Munich's museums, churches and the Residenz are open on Sundays, and the Pinakotheken charge €1. The markets and most shopping are not. Here is what that means for a Sunday plan.

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Monday is the day Venice is most likely to catch you out. Here is what closes, what stays open, and a Monday route that avoids every closed door.

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London's free museums, its markets and the river are open on Sundays. Westminster Abbey is open for worship, not sightseeing, St Paul's lists no Sunday sightseeing after 25 October, and large shops trade six hours. Here is what that means for a Sunday plan.

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On a Sunday Vienna's museums, palaces and the cathedral are open, and the shops are shut by law. Here is what closes, what stays open, and a Sunday route that avoids every closed door.

Opening hours · 5 min read

Monday is the day Rome is most likely to catch you out. Here is what closes, what stays open, and a Monday route that avoids every closed door.

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Tuesday is the day Paris is most likely to catch you out. Here is what closes, what stays open, and a Tuesday route that avoids every closed door.

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Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque aren't museums with fixed hours — they're active mosques, and the difference reshapes how a Sultanahmet day should actually be built.

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Tibidabo looks open every day online. For most of the year, it genuinely isn't — and the gap between the two is the single most avoidable planning error in the city.