Old towns, islands, museums and city breaks, from Lisbon to Baku
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 added "dolma making and sharing tradition, a marker of cultural identity" to its list of the intangible heritage of humanity…
The Torre de Belém is the most photographed building in Lisbon and, for most of a year, you couldn't go inside it. The tower closed for a restoration…
You see the Big Buddha before you land. The statue sits on a small islet on the northeast coast of Koh Samui, a few kilometres from the airport, and…
Most people pass through Burgos. Pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago walk through it on the way west, drivers stop for lunch on the road between…
King Herod had no natural harbour on this stretch of coast, so he built one. Between about 22 and 10 BC his engineers sank huge blocks of hydraulic…
Catania keeps its mascot in the middle of its main square. A small elephant carved from black lava stands on a white marble plinth, grinning…
Most castles stand on a hill. The Château de Fougères sits at the bottom of one. It was built in a loop of the river Nançon on a rocky spur, with the…
Bordeaux spent most of its history selling wine to the world and very little of it explaining wine to visitors. In 2016 it fixed that with La Cité du…
Four years ago, the big ships came to Haifa every week of the season. The photo below is one of them: Celebrity Apex alongside the passenger quay in…
The Hundertwasserhaus is the building Vienna's grown-ups pretend to be above and every child loves at first sight. It has no straight lines if it can…
