City Guides

A Renaissance fortress, Orlando Innamorato, experimental biology and an ancient white grape make tiny Scandiano unexpectedly rich.

Opened in 1860, Oxford’s Gothic science museum holds seven million specimens, the unique dodo remains and the first described dinosaur.

Founded around 1070, Windsor combines Norman fortifications, 11 royal tombs, a working palace and rooms rebuilt after the 1992 fire

Opened in 1881, London’s cathedral to nature holds 80 million specimens beneath terracotta animals and a 25-metre blue whale.

Teaching began here by 1096; nine centuries later Oxford still hides medieval colleges, Baroque libraries and rivers between its dreaming...

Pha That Luang turns Buddhist symbolism, Lan Xang history and modern Lao identity into one immense golden monument at the...

A murder in 1170 turned Canterbury into medieval Europe’s great pilgrimage city and eventually gave Chaucer his most famous journey

Where else can you find a 600-square-metre medieval mosaic, Ottoman history, Aragonese walls and turquoise Adriatic beaches within one town?

Bửu Long swaps Saigon’s incense-filled shrines for white terraces, golden stupas and a striking Theravada architecture shaped by Southeast Asian...

Newton, Byron, Nobel laureates and a clock that strikes twice: Trinity packs centuries of brilliance into Cambridge’s grandest academic setting