Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon delivers a speech at a forum in Seoul, Oct. 18. Yonhap

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon will go on an 11-day trip to Europe this week that will bring him to major city development sites in key European cities and a global meeting of Olympic host cities, officials said Thursday.

Starting Friday, Oh will visit Paris and then Lausanne and Basel of Switzerland, as well as Spain's Madrid and Seville, and the Netherlands' Amsterdam and Rotterdam, according to the officials.

In the French capital, Oh will visit the International Garden Festival of Chaumont sur Loire and the city's central district near the Champs-Elysees street and the Concorde plaza, where a city project to build green spaces is under way.

The mayor will also have a meeting with Marc-Antoine Jamet, the president of Cosmetic Valley, a French business cluster specialized in cosmetics, to discuss the possibility of Korean firms making inroads into European markets.