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Few museum buildings commit to a metaphor as literally as La Cité du Vin. Perched on the banks of the Garonne River in Bordeaux, the…

Wander far enough into Toledo’s tangle of medieval streets and you’ll run into buildings that seem to be doing two jobs at once — part…

At the center of Catania’s Piazza del Duomo stands one of Sicily’s most recognizable and least explained monuments: a smiling elephant carved from black lava…

Rising on a rocky spur wrapped by a loop of the Nançon river, the Château de Fougères is widely cited as the largest surviving medieval…

Rising on a rocky promontory above the Vilaine River, the Château de Vitré is one of the most complete medieval fortresses left standing in France…

There’s no better time to see the Miroir d’eau than the last hour of blue light, when the shallow reflecting pool turns the entire Place…

Twilight on the Garonne has its own rhythm, and this stretch of quay captures it well. A red-hulled dinner cruise boat glides past, its open-air…

Night falls over Place de la Bourse and the Bourse Maritime building takes on a different character entirely. By day it’s a working landmark on…

Some cities tuck their castles behind ticket gates and manicured lawns. Angers just lets traffic circle around its. At the roundabout where the roads to…

Cross the old stone bridge on the south side of Auray and the town changes character entirely. This is Saint-Goustan, the harbor quarter that made…

There’s a specific window, maybe twenty minutes long, when the sky over Auray turns a deep cobalt and the floodlights on the Hôtel de Ville…

This is one of the more theatrical corners of Rennes’ old town — a run of half-timbered façades in green, mustard, deep maroon, and blue,…

Most visitors to Bruges aim for the Markt and its belfry, then drift away without realizing the city’s real seat of power sits one short…

Azerbaijani cooking is built on sourness, and Teze Bazar is where the sourness is sold. Before the dolma and the kebab and the plov, there…

In Baku, the vine-leaf dolma is not a starter. It is a thesis about how Azerbaijan eats. The country claims yarpaq dolması as a national…

Few cities pack their contradictions as tightly as Baku. In a single glance you can take in a medieval walled city, the gilded mansions of…

Two golden half-moons arrive blistered and shining, the dough so thin in places it has gone translucent over the filling. On the side: a white…

The late afternoon sun rakes across the limestone face of the Ottoman aqueduct at Acre, throwing the blind arcade into sharp relief — column, shadow,…

This is the Salle des États at the Louvre. The crowd is queuing behind stanchions, phones raised, shuffling forward in a managed line supervised by…

The assumption is reasonable: you walk into a Paris pizzeria, you order pizza. That is not always the right move. A number of French pizzerias…