City guide
Travel guides
Honest, opinionated guides to the cities our travellers actually go to. Where to eat, where to drink, what is worth your afternoon, and what to know before you land.
Lebanon1 city
France4 cities
Paris
The Paris worth your three days: where to actually eat, which museum to skip, and the neighbourhoods that reward walking.
26 places8 min read
- LyonFrance's eating city, minus the queues of Paris: bouchons, a Renaissance old town, and two rivers to walk between.
15 places6 min read
- NiceThe Riviera city that is still a real city: an Italian old town, a pebble beach, and the best base on the coast.
15 places6 min read
- MarseilleFrance's oldest and least polite city: a working port, North African food, and limestone fjords at the end of the bus line.
15 places6 min read
Spain3 cities
- BarcelonaGaudí without the queues, tapas away from the Rambla, and a beach the city only remembered it had in 1992.
14 places6 min read
- MadridSpain's least postcard-friendly great city: three world-class galleries, the best bar culture in Europe, and no beach to distract you.
14 places5 min read
- SevilleOrange trees, a Moorish palace still in royal use, and the birthplace of tapas. Just do not come in August.
14 places5 min read
Italy3 cities
Rome
Three thousand years stacked on top of each other, four pasta dishes worth arguing about, and more tourists than any of it was built for.
14 places6 min read
Read the guideFlorence
The Renaissance in walking distance, a steak the size of a brick, and a city centre that fits inside a twenty-minute stroll.
14 places5 min read
Read the guideVenice
A city with no cars, thirty million visitors a year, and about fifty thousand residents left. Stay the night and you get a different one.
14 places6 min read
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Japan3 cities
Turkey3 cities
- IstanbulTwo continents, two empires' capitals, sixteen million people, and a ferry ride that is still the best thing you can do here for the price of a bus fare.
14 places7 min read
- CappadociaVolcanic rock carved into houses, churches and whole underground cities, with a hundred balloons over it at dawn. Yes, it is worth the early alarm.
14 places5 min read
- AntalyaA Roman old town on a cliff over the Mediterranean, mountains behind it, and some of the best-preserved ancient theatres anywhere, half an hour from the beach.
14 places5 min read
United Arab Emirates3 cities
Dubai
The tallest building in the world, a creek that still works as a port, and a food scene that has quietly become one of the best on the planet.
14 places6 min read
Read the guideAbu Dhabi
The quieter, wealthier capital: a mosque that stops conversation, a Jean Nouvel museum under a floating dome, and the Empty Quarter two hours south.
14 places5 min read
Read the guideSharjah
The Emirates' cultural capital: restored coral-stone quarters, the best museums in the country, and a coastline on the other side of the mountains.
14 places5 min read
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City outlines © OpenStreetMap contributors
- Beirut
- Paris
- Barcelona
- Rome
- Tokyo
- Istanbul
- Dubai
- Lyon
- Madrid
- Florence
- Kyoto
- Cappadocia
- Abu Dhabi
- Nice
- Seville
- Venice
- Osaka
- Antalya
- Sharjah
- Marseille
- Kyoto
- Cappadocia
- Abu Dhabi
- Nice
- Seville
- Venice
- Osaka
- Antalya
- Sharjah
- Marseille
- Beirut
- Paris
- Barcelona
- Rome
- Tokyo
- Istanbul
- Dubai
- Lyon
- Madrid
- Florence
More cities are on the way. We publish a guide once we can stand behind every recommendation in it.