City Guides

Lombard kings, medieval universities and Romanesque basilicas shape this compact city of towers, courtyards and river life on the Ticino.

Giant Atlantic waves meet fishing traditions, pilgrimage history and an extraordinary clifftop sanctuary in Portugal’s unmistakable Nazaré

A Roman crossing, medieval towers and Loureiro vineyards frame Portugal’s oldest chartered town on the green banks of the Lima

A 1141 mosaic floor and golden Byzantine Virgin make San Donato one of the Venetian Lagoon’s finest medieval churches

A medieval abbey, Doria tombs and an underwater Christ hide inside this roadless bay beneath the Portofino Promontory.

Romanesque towers rise above fishing boats while prehistoric caves and pilgrim sanctuaries reveal Molfetta’s unexpectedly deep Adriatic history.

Roman bridges, underground prisons and medieval fortresses reveal three thousand years of history above the wooded Nera gorge in Narni.

Medieval glass meets Chagall and Kimsooja beneath a soaring Gothic nave in Metz’s extraordinary eight-century cathedral of light

Gothic glass, Roman ruins and monumental German architecture trace three thousand years of history beside the Moselle in Metz

Etruscan ruins, medieval towers and Renaissance loggias overlook two valleys from this remarkably layered hill town between Arezzo and Cortona