History
History
Tbilisi is easy to read at first glance. A fortress on the hill, balconies in every color, sulfur baths by…
History
Astana is a capital that was mostly built in the last 25 years, on a flat steppe where winter lasts…
History
Almaty is a young city by Central Asian standards. Its official birthday is 1854, and the founding document was signed…
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Khiva is the only city in Central Asia where the old town is still a complete walled city with people…
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Bukhara is the most compact of the three big Silk Road cities in Uzbekistan. Samarkand spreads its monuments across a…
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Bukhara is the city in Uzbekistan where the history is easiest to read, because it was never flattened and rebuilt…
History
Samarkand has been a city for at least 2,750 years, and almost everything a visitor photographs was built in a…
History
Chongqing does not look like any other Chinese megacity. Hills squeeze the center onto a narrow peninsula between two rivers,…
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Plenty of cities call themselves modern. Singapore is the one where the label holds up on the ground. A rooftop…
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Bangkok rewards a plan. Its main sights are spread between the old royal island of Rattanakosin, the river, and the…
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Most first-time plans for Beijing look the same: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven. All three…
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Shanghai rewards a first visit more than most big cities. A Ming-dynasty garden sits four metro stops from the tallest…