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Top 25 things to do worldwide in 2025 – number one only occurs every 25 years

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A list of the 25 best things to do in the world for 2025 has been released, with the top activity only occurring once every 25 years.

Time Out has named visiting Rome for Italy’s once-every-quarter-century Catholic Jubilee as the number one event this year.

The festival began in late December 2024, and will continue throughout 2025. The event will see millions of Italians heading to the capital, “with the rite of the Opening of the Holy Door – normally sealed shut with mortar and cement – in the papal basilicas including St Peter’s and St John Lateran’s”. Across the year there will be many events, including processions and free visits to shires and holy sites.

Taking the second spot on the list was cycling, waling or paddling along Australia’s longest river. This new multisport adventure trail is opening up along Australia’s Murray River, which is the longest river in the country, running from Lake Hume to Mildura. The river zig-zags across the border of New South Wales and Victoria, and has sustained land and riverside communities for the past 40,000 year.

Snatching the third spot was the world’s first museum telling stories of migration through art. Opening in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, on May 16, Fenix will feature a tornado-shaped rooftop observation deck, with views over the city’s skyline.

Katendrecht, Rotterdam, was once the point of arrival for immigrants to the Netherlands and also where people left for a new life abroad. According to Time Out, Chinese firm Mad Architects has redeveloped the Fenix warehouse, which was originally built in 1922 into the new museum.

Time Out’s Travel Editor, Grace Beard, says the list is “a great way for travellers to plan their year ahead”, adding: “You’ll find everything from major art exhibitions and newly-opened adventure trails to the world’s biggest parties and once-in-a-lifetime moments.”

1. Jubilee in Rome, Italy2. Cycle, walk or paddle along Australia’s longest river3. Visit Fenix — a new museum telling stories of migration — in Rotterdam, the Netherlands4. Fly directly to Greenland5. Visit the reopening of Harlem’s Studio Museum — an institution for Black artists — in New York, USA6. Celebrate painter Paul Cezanne, in his hometown of Aix-en-Provence, France7. Travel through Vietnam by vintage steam train8. Go on a wildlife-spotting adventure in Singapore’s sprawling new rainforest park9. Explore Gorizia, Italy, and Nova Gorica, Slovenia – the cross-border towns that make up 2025’s European Capital of Culture10. Take a micro-cruise through the Arctic11. Party at the world’s first ‘hyper-club’, [UNVRS], in Ibiza, Spain12. Book a football-themed city break in Europe, led by an actual professional player, with Looking FC13. Celebrate Amsterdam’s big 75014. Visit two new sites at London’s Victoria & Albert museum15. Explore new ‘creative city’ Nuanu on the island of Bali16. Ride through Europe on the revamped Orient Express

17. Journey back through billions of years of the world’s history at Abu Dhabi’s new museum18. Visit the long-shuttered Notre-Dame in Paris, France19. Visit the world’s first Museum of BBQ in Kansas City, USA20. Travel the world at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan21. Head-bang to rock at newly-revived Tecnopolis music festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina22. Head out on a wine safari at Durbanville, South Africa23. Go star bathing at Metis Crossing, Alberta, Canada24. Visit the world’s first AI art museum, DATALAND, in Los Angeles, USA25. Eat at four new Time Out Markets, in Osaka, Vancouver, Budapest and Abu Dhabi

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