Azerbaijan named among most popular city break destinations for Brits

Google 2019 year in search named the top ten destinations for flight searches, which saw Madrid and Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, crowned one and two respectively, Report informs citing The Sun.

This is thanks in part to the football finals being hosted in the two cities.

Madrid hosted the Champions League final, which saw Tottenham go head to head with Liverpool in the Spanish capital.

Flights to the capital soared to over £1,000 due to the popularity of the game, with many fans left disappointed.

Baku had a similar story - it hosted the Europa League final between Arsenal and Chelsea.

All of the destinations in Google's UK top trending city breaks list are in Europe.

In number one is Venice, which was ravaged by floods just last month.

Coming in second was Krakow, one of the cheapest cities for a holiday, while in number three was Berlin, which celebrated the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall.

Also in the list is Dublin in fourth place, Amsterdam in fifth and Paris in sixth.

Spain has two cities in the top ten - Barcelona in seventh and Madrid in tenth.

And London and Prague are eighth and ninth respectively.