Up in the Andes mountains, named for the New Castile city that was the hometown of the Spanish viceroy at the time of its founding in 1557 is so lovely and historic that it's been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999
30/04/2015
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Month: April 2015
For centuries one of Europe's most cultured, vibrant cities, since emerging from behind the "Iron Curtain" in 1989, Hungary's capital has more than made up for lost time, becoming a...
28/04/2015
Movies from Spain have been making an impact on Western and world culture ever since cinema was invented - although a scant few years after the birth of the film...
27/04/2015
For families thinking ahead to summer holidays, the United States is particularly rich in cities with kid-friendly offerings. Following up on my three picks in Europe last week, here are three more...
24/04/2015
No, 'tisn't some fabulous bauble in the jewelry collection of the Museum of Fine Arts. The moniker "emerald necklace" refers rather to a chain of parks and green spaces - still...
23/04/2015
Over the generations, beer has enjoyed arguably even more popularity than wine throughout much of the world, yet has tended to garner less respect as a object of connoisseurship (relatively...
22/04/2015
Including the western half of France's Côte d'Azur, the Languedoc-Roussillon region is full of famous names such as Carcassonne, Perpignan, and Nîmes. Along the Riviera itself, Nice, St. Tropez, and Marseille...
21/04/2015
The Parque de las Leyendas is basically a zoo in the city of Lima. Located in the San Miguel district near the coast, west of the old city centre...
20/04/2015
As families start thinking ahead to summer holidays, thoughts and calculations turn to the best possible destinations to keep everybody satisfied - and the little guys most of all (after...
17/04/2015
Way down South America way, one of the hemisphere’s most chichi beach resorts sits astride the Atlantic coast of one of South America’s lower-profile countries, Uruguay. On a narrow...
16/04/2015
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