Antwerp

Antwerp Travel Guide

Antwerp is Europe’s second-largest port and has much of the zest often associated with a harbor town. But it also has an outsized influence in a very different realm: that of clothing design. Since the 1980s, Antwerp-trained fashion designers have become renowned for experimental styles paired with time-honored workmanship. Several designers, such as Dries…

Salzburg

Salzburg Travel Guide

“All Salzburg is a stage,” Count Ferdinand Czernin once wrote. “Its beauty, its tradition, its history enshrined in the grey stone of which its buildings are made, its round of music, its crowd of fancy-dressed people, all combine to lift you out of everyday life, to make you forget that somewhere far off, life hides another, drearier,…

Austin

Austin Travel Guide

There’s a mystique about Austin. Even if you’ve lived for years in this small town turned big city, the reasons why the city functions as it does, and why it seems so different from other U.S. cities, may not be readily apparent.

Austin is an extraordinarily open and welcoming place—a city where you’re not only allowed but expected…

Montevideo

Montevideo Travel Guide

Uruguay’s only real metropolis has its share of glitzy shopping avenues and modern office buildings. But few visitors come here specifically in search of urban pleasures. This city of 1½ million doesn’t have the whirlwind vibe of Rio de Janeiro or Buenos Aires, but it’s a fine old city with sumptuous, if worn, colonial architecture, and a…

Geneva

Geneva Travel Guide

Resting on the southwestern tip of Lac Léman (Lake Geneva), Geneva is the cosmopolitan, graceful soul of Switzerland’s French-speaking territory, a high-profile crossroads of wealth, influence, and cultures from around the world. Rolls-Royces purr past manicured promenades, and grand mansarded mansions stand guard beside the River Rhône, where yachts bob and gulls dive. The combination of Swiss…

Columbus

Columbus Travel Guide

Even when the rest of Ohio began to suffer industrial decline in the second half of the 20th century, Columbus grew, primarily because its economy is based on state government, education, finance and insurance, and light industry. Continued prosperity has made Columbus an attractive place to live and visit. The city is home to Ohio State University,…

Portland

Portland Travel Guide

A city of many names throughout its history, including Casco and Falmouth, Portland has survived many dramatic transformations. Sheltered by the nearby Casco Bay Islands and blessed with a deep port, Portland was a significant settlement right from its start in the early 17th century. Settlers thrived on fishing and lumbering, repeatedly building up the area while…

San Diego

San Diego Travel Guide

San Diego is a vacationer’s paradise, complete with idyllic year-round temperatures and 70 mi of pristine coastline. Recognized as one of the nation’s leading family destinations, with SeaWorld, LEGOLAND, and the Zoo, San Diego is equally attractive to those in search of art, culture, world-class shopping, and culinary exploration. San Diego’s many neighborhoods offer diverse…

Memphis

Memphis Travel Guide

On the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, Memphis is Tennessee’s largest city and the commercial and cultural center of the western part of the Volunteer state and several of its neighbors. The city is a blend of Southern tradition and modern efficiency, where aging cotton warehouses stand in the shadow of sleek new office buildings, and old-fashioned…

Bern

Bern Travel Guide

Humble and down-to-earth, Bern is a city of broad medieval streets, farmers’ markets, and friendly people. It is also a World Cultural Heritage city known for its sandstone arcades, fountains, and thick, sturdy towers. Though Bern is the Swiss capital, you won’t find much cosmopolitan affectation here: The cuisine du marché, based on the freshest ingredients available…

Bogota

Bogotá Travel Guide

Bogotá offers abundant contrasts: modern shopping malls and open-air markets, high-rise apartments and makeshift shanties, futuristic glass towers and colonial churches. Simultaneous displays of ostentatious wealth and shocking poverty have been a feature of life here for centuries. In the neighborhood of La Candelaria a rich assemblage of colonial mansions grandly conceived by the Spanish were built…