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Asmara Is the Art Deco Capital Most Travellers Have Never Heard Of
Decades of Italian colonial rule left Eritrea's capital with one of the world's densest collections of 1930s modernist and Art Deco buildings, frozen in place…
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Tunis Doesn't Get the Credit Its Blue-and-White Neighbour Does
Sidi Bou Said's postcard lanes draw the cameras, but the working medina a short train ride away in Tunis is where Tunisia's layered history, Ottoman…
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Baku Is Where the Caucasus Meets the Gulf, and It's Reshaping Fast
Azerbaijan's capital pairs a UNESCO-listed walled old town with a Gulf-style skyline of glass towers, and it has been drawing a steadily wider mix of…
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Vilnius Is Baroque Europe's Best-Kept Secret, and It Won't Stay That Way
Lithuania's capital holds one of the largest surviving old towns in Europe and a self-declared arts republic with its own constitution, yet it still rarely…
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Lalibela's Rock-Hewn Churches Deserve to Be Ethiopia's Headline Attraction, Not Its Footnote
Eleven churches carved downward out of solid volcanic rock nearly eight centuries ago still function as working places of worship, yet Lalibela remains a…
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Plovdiv Has Quietly Become Europe's Most Interesting Old City
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe spent decades overlooked in favour of Sofia and the Black Sea coast; a 2019 turn as European Capital…
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Bratislava Is Done Being the Stop You Skip Between Vienna and Budapest
Squeezed on the map between two grander imperial capitals, Slovakia's Danube-side capital has spent years as a day trip; a wave of restored old-town streets…
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Busan Is the Korean City That Doesn't Need Seoul's Permission to Impress
South Korea's second city is usually pitched as a side trip from Seoul, but its port geography, hillside villages and film-festival culture make a strong case…
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Cusco Was a Capital Long Before It Was a Machu Picchu Layover
Most itineraries treat Cusco as a night or two to acclimatise before Machu Picchu, but the former Inca capital's own streets, built directly over the empire's…
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Antigua Guatemala: A Baroque City Left Half in Ruins, on Purpose
Antigua Guatemala never rebuilt everything the 1773 earthquakes destroyed, and that choice, alongside the volcano that still smokes above it, is exactly what…
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Beirut Keeps Rebuilding Itself, Which Is Exactly Why It's Worth Visiting Now
Few cities have been knocked down and rebuilt as many times as Beirut, and that history of resilience, rather than any single sight, is the real reason to…
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Toledo Is Madrid's Easiest Day Trip, and That's Exactly Why It Deserves Longer
Thirty minutes from Madrid by high-speed rail, Toledo is usually squeezed into a single afternoon, but a walled hilltop city that spent centuries as a working…
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