Salzburg: A City Built on Salt, Famous for Music It Almost Missed
Salzburg takes its name directly from the salt trade, “Salz” meaning salt, that made the city genuinely wealthy for centuries, salt mined…
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Sofia: A Capital Where a Mosque, Synagogue, and Two Churches Share One Corner
At a single intersection in central Sofia, a mosque, a synagogue, a Catholic cathedral, and an Eastern Orthodox church all stand within…
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Bucharest: A City That Called Itself Little Paris and Meant It
Bucharest earned the nickname “Little Paris” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Romanian architects and elites, many educated in…
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Belgrade: A City Destroyed and Rebuilt More Than Almost Any Other in Europe
Belgrade has been destroyed and rebuilt an estimated 40 times throughout its recorded history, historians frequently cite it as one of the…
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Split: A Roman Palace That Became an Entire Living City
Split’s old town is built almost entirely within and around the walls of Diocletian’s Palace, a retirement residence the Roman Emperor Diocletian…
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Meteora: Monasteries Built Deliberately Out of Reach
Meteora’s monasteries sit atop towering sandstone pillars, some rising over 400 metres, formations created roughly 60 million years ago by river sediment…
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Delphi: The Sanctuary the Ancient World Believed Was the Centre of Everything
Ancient Greeks believed Delphi marked the exact centre of the world, according to myth, Zeus released two eagles from opposite ends of…
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San Juan: A 500-Year-Old Fortress City Still Guarding the Caribbean
San Juan, founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, is the oldest city under the United States flag and one of the oldest…
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El Salvador: Central America’s Smallest Country, Reshaped by Its Own Volcanoes
El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America by land area, yet it contains more than 20 volcanoes, a density that…
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La Paz: The World’s Highest de Facto Capital, Where the Rich Live Lower Down
La Paz sits at an extraordinary elevation, its city centre around 3,650 metres above sea level, and its highest neighbourhoods climbing well…
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Quito: A Colonial Capital Split Almost Exactly by the Equator
Quito’s historic centre is widely regarded as one of the best-preserved colonial old towns in Latin America, and was, along with Krakow,…
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Bogota: A Capital Built at Nearly 2,600 Metres Above Sea Level
Bogota sits at an elevation of roughly 2,640 metres, making it one of the highest capital cities in the world, a location…
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