Old towns, islands, museums and city breaks, from Lisbon to Baku
Plaza de España in Seville looks like the oldest thing in the city's park and is one of the newest. It was built for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, a world's fair meant to show off Spain and repair its ties with the countries of Latin America. The architect, Aníbal…
Pena Palace in Sintra is usually photographed from outside, where its red and yellow walls rise above the wooded hills. Step into the small cloister…
One well-chosen walk can give a city break a shape without filling every hour. Pick a route that joins different kinds of space, allows a few stops…
A waterfront gives a newcomer something a dense street map often cannot: a long, readable line. You can see the direction of the river or coast…
Lyon makes more sense from the water. On foot, the city arrives in fragments: an old-town alley, a bridge, a steep glimpse of Fourvière, a modern…
Taormina has a remarkable talent for making an ordinary summer afternoon feel like a theatrical performance. There is no need for a festival, a…
The Cathedral of Syracuse, standing in Piazza Duomo on the island of Ortigia, is one of those buildings that makes you wonder whether architecture…
Vienna has a remarkable talent for making history feel physically enormous. Walk into Maria-Theresien-Platz, the broad square between the city's two…
Ask anyone in Baku for the national dish and you'll get an argument: plov, says one; dolma, says the next. Dolma has the paperwork. In 2017 UNESCO…
