120 city guides ยท 3-day history itineraries
3-day city guides centred on historical sites, monuments, old quarters and untold stories.
From 4,500-year-old Umm an-Nar burial chambers at Hili to the memorial monuments of the union, traciโฆ
Zuma Rock, the 1828 Habe court at Suleja, Ladi Kwali's kilns and the square where the army gave Nigeโฆ
From the Manila Galleon fortress and Pacific trade routes to Diego Rivera murals, Independence battlโฆ
Ga sea shrines, Dutch and Danish forts, Basel mission quarters and the 1948 shootings that set Ghanaโฆ
From Mopsuestia's ark mosaic and crag-top Armenian fortresses to cotton-boom churches, the 1882 clocโฆ
From Lucy's 3.2-million-year-old bones to Menelik's palaces, Haile Selassie's throne room and the unโฆ
Sixty thousand years of Kaurna presence, an 1841 gaol, the Proclamation gum tree and the surveyor's โฆ
The 1540 Ottoman-era kasbah, the earthquake memorial city and the Amazigh granary strongholds of theโฆ
Beyond the Taj: tombs, forts, abandoned capitals and the Mughal court's rise and collapse, walked inโฆ
Mamluk hospitals, a Byzantine cathedral hidden inside a madrasa, Ottoman merchant mansions and the lโฆ
Catacombs, Roman theatres and a Mamluk fort built on the ruins of the Pharos โ the layered past of Eโฆ
From the Casbah's Ottoman deys to the bomb-making cellars of the Battle of Algiers, told through theโฆ
From Bronze Age citadel walls and a 2nd-century Roman forum to Circassian mosques, royal automobilesโฆ
Eight centuries in a walkable city: the 1306 Oude Kerk, the world's oldest stock exchange square, thโฆ
Pre-Romanesque churches, rescued frescoes, tobacco fortunes and the manor house where Andorran democโฆ
From Bronze Age Anatolia and Julian's column to the parliament rooms where the Turkish Republic was โฆ
From the theatre of Aspendos and the ruins of Perge to the Seljuk fluted minaret and the Ottoman manโฆ
From the zebu-blood ramparts of Ambohimanga to the 1947 martyrs' mausoleum, a chronological walk thrโฆ
Convent ruins, the Spanish colonial capital's fallen monasteries and the 1773 Santa Marta earthquakeโฆ
From the Roman-era Steen fortress and the world's first stock exchange to the Nazi V-bomb scars and โฆ
Star mounds, German colonial timber, Stevenson's grave on Mount Vaea and the peaceful uprising that โฆ
From the Parthian citadels of Nisa and the buried Seljuk capital of Merv-in-miniature to the 1948 eaโฆ
From the Kohaito rock churches and Ottoman-era Massawa trade routes to the Fascist boulevards, the Bโฆ
From Bronze Age Begazy-Dandybai burials and the Silk Road town of Bozok to the ALZHIR women's camp, โฆ
Founding-era churches, the Panteรณn's war dead, the Archivos del Terror and the barrios that outlivedโฆ
Kerameikos graves, Roman marble, Byzantine icons, the 1821 revolt and the tank that broke the junta โฆ
Mississippian mound builders, Kennesaw's Civil War trenches, a 371-foot battle panorama and the Blacโฆ
From 800-year-old Mฤori terraces on volcanic cones to Victorian merchant streets, the Treaty House aโฆ
From the 1839 Republic of Texas street grid to Emancipation-era Freedmen's towns and the Great Socieโฆ
Papal palaces, 14th-century schism, Roman ruins across the river and the walled city that ruled Chriโฆ
From Sumerian gold and Abbasid madrasas to Ottoman caravanserais, Saddam-era monuments and the shrinโฆ
Ge'ez parchment on Lake Tana's islands, the 1626 Portuguese bridge over the Blue Nile, and Haile Selโฆ
Zoroastrian fire altars, Nobel brothers' oil mansions, Soviet-era memorials and the Absheron peninsuโฆ
From Neolithic rock art on the Point G escarpment to the exiled libraries of Timbuktu and the monumeโฆ
From the 15th-century royal tombs of Kota Batu to the 1962 rebellion and the oil-money transformatioโฆ
From 9,500-year-old cave burials on the shore of prehistoric Lake Bandung to the cell where Sukarno โฆ
From Kempegowda's 1537 mud fort and Tipu Sultan's teak palace to the British Cantonment's churches, โฆ
Rattanakosin palaces, the Siamese revolution of 1932, WWII railway relics and the trading quarters tโฆ
Roman colony walls, medieval Gothic guildhalls, Civil War air-raid shelters and the archives of a ciโฆ
Customs houses, Colombia's first railway line, a 19th-century sea fort and the immigrant arcades of โฆ
Iron Age ramparts, a post-Roman earthwork, a 12th-century almshouse still in use, and a brass foundrโฆ
Roman legionary walls at Gonio, a Byzantine siege cliff at Petra, Ottoman prayer halls and Nobel oilโฆ
Rock-hewn monasteries in the Holy Valley, the printing press that changed the Arab world, and the moโฆ
From Yuan-dynasty lanes and Ming ritual altars to burned garden palaces, Boxer-siege legation streetโฆ
Roman baths under the banks, Phoenician quarries beneath a hotel car park, Ottoman souk arcades and โฆ
From a Norman castle mound and a 17th-century church to the peace walls, the Somme and the parliamenโฆ
From Roman castrum walls and Ottoman tombs to Tito's mausoleum and the bombed ruins of 1999 โ the laโฆ
From Sabarรก's 1701 baroque gold churches to the 1897 grid that replaced Curral del Rey โ the layeredโฆ
From the 5th-century BCE Greek colony of Euesperides to the Duomo, the war graves and the courthouseโฆ
Medieval royal Bergen, the German merchants' quarter, and the scars of 1944 โ walked in three days.โฆ
Frederick the Great, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi capital, the divided city and the Wall fallingโฆ
From the 1191 founding of Berchtold V to the Bundeshaus dome, the Reformation of 1528 and the patricโฆ
From the 1300 medieval charter of the Siete Calles to Carlist siege lines, iron-ore fortunes and theโฆ
From a Norman moated manor and Saxon burial ground to the workshops where Watt's steam engine, Boultโฆ
From the 1004 CE imperial donation charter to Yugoslav summer diplomacy, traced through cliff-top arโฆ
From the presidency of the Orange Free State to the concentration camps of 1901 and the courtroom whโฆ
Pre-Columbian ceramics, the oldest church in the city, a viceroy's house and the vase that started aโฆ
From Lombard cloisters and law professors' carved tombs to the partisan wall and the Ustica wreck โ โฆ
From the Palais Gallien's Roman arches to a Nazi U-boat bunker with a 9-metre roof โ the layers hiddโฆ
Burying grounds, meeting houses, a 1797 frigate and the hill that ended the siege โ Boston's own timโฆ
From the 4th-century Roman ramparts of Avaricum to the Hundred Years' War court of Charles VII โ thrโฆ
From the 1892 Cruls Mission survey stone and the pioneers' shantytown church to the JK Memorial crypโฆ
From a Great Moravian fortress and a Danube limes fort to the bulldozed Jewish quarter and a Soviet โฆ
From de Brazza's mausoleum and the 1880 Makoko treaty to Free France's wartime capital, the Basiliquโฆ
From the 1,200-year-old cathedral crypt and the Schnoor's fishermen's alleys to the emigrant halls oโฆ
From Norman abbey stone and medieval merchant chapels to Georgian sugar mansions, wartime bomb ruinsโฆ
Mummified Capuchin monks, 50,000 skulls under a square, Napoleon's Austerlitz and a nuclear shelter โฆ
From the Roman-era Senne valley and the buried palace of Charles V to Waterloo's slopes and the coloโฆ
From Vlad ศepeศ's princely cellars to the balcony where Ceauศescu lost the crowd in 1989โฆ
From the legionary capital of Aquincum to secret-police cellars, dervish shrines and the national grโฆ
From the Jesuit block of 1662 and the tunnels under San Telmo to the 1810 revolution, Perรณn, Malvinaโฆ
Pre-Mongol mausoleums, the last emir's palaces and prisons, and the necropolises and shrines beyond โฆ
Six founding sultans, the earliest Ottoman architecture on earth, and the silk-road caravanserais thโฆ
From Silla-era mountain fortresses and a 15th-century Japanese trading enclave to the wartime capitaโฆ
From Djoser's Step Pyramid and Sneferu's experiments at Dahshur to Fatimid Al-Muizz Street, Coptic Bโฆ
From 6,000-year-old buffalo jumps and Blackfoot winter camps to the 1875 Mounted Police fort, the saโฆ
From the 1536 founding cross and Spanish sugar haciendas to the Museo del Oro Calima and the balconyโฆ
From an 1130 crusader round church and Roman-road earthworks to the Cavendish lab where the atom wasโฆ
Rock shelters, ceremonial avenues and 1830s sheep-run homesteads beneath the planned capitalโฆ
Postclassic Maya trading ports, colonial Yucatรกn churches and the planning blueprints that turned a โฆ
From the Norman crypt where Becket's blood was mopped up to the Roman mosaic 4m below the modern higโฆ
From the 1679 VOC castle and the Slave Lodge to District Six, Tuan Guru's mosque and Langa's pass ofโฆ
From the colonial birth-house of the Liberator to the concrete monuments of the petro-state, walked โฆ
Cathar sieges, Inquisition archives, a 14th-century bridge and the royal grid town Louis IX ordered โฆ
From the Second Augustan Legion at Caerleon to the trading floor that set the world's coal price andโฆ
Spanish gold routes, slave-trade tribunals and the 1811 uprising, traced through Cartagena's forts, โฆ
From the 18th-century medina walls rebuilt after the Lisbon earthquake to the Anfa hill where Roosevโฆ
Greek theatres buried under lava, a Norman castle stranded inland by an eruption, Benedictine cloistโฆ
Pre-colonial gold, Parian ancestral houses, Spanish coral churches and American-era civic monuments โฆ
From the 1775 Mecklenburg Declaration and America's first gold rush to Confederate naval secrets andโฆ
The 1471 citadel of Moulay Ali ibn Rachid, the Andalusian refugee quarters of 1492, and the Spanish โฆ
From 3,000-year-old Jinsha gold masks to Zhuge Liang's shrine, Tang poet cottages and the Qing-era sโฆ
Seventh-century Pallava temples, the East India Company's first fortress, and the Dravidian movementโฆ
Seven centuries of the Kingdom of a Million Rice Fields โ from Mangrai's 1296 foundation stone to thโฆ
From the world's largest Stone Age shell mound to samurai streets in Sakura and the Edo canal warehoโฆ
From the Fort Dearborn stockade and the 1871 Great Fire to Pullman's company town, Hull-House and a โฆ
Mughal fort mosques, the Portuguese river quarter, Commonwealth war graves and the hills where teenaโฆ
Ming porcelain lanes, Qing guild halls and the 1938โ46 capital of China, walked in three days acrossโฆ
From 13th-century moa-hunter caves and Ngฤi Tahu kฤinga to Rutherford's stone classrooms, a Victoriaโฆ
From the Roman colony of Napoca and a 87m Gothic tower to Communist-era memory and the fortress bastโฆ
From the Romanesque cathedral of the Reconquista to the Baroque library and the Inquisition prison bโฆ
From the Praetorium under City Hall to the Gestapo cells of the EL-DE Haus โ Colonia Claudia Ara Agrโฆ
Royal ruins, VOC townhouses, granite kovils and the ground where Ceylon became independentโฆ
Royal ruins beneath a palace, the runestones of Jelling's kings, Rosenborg's crown jewels and the saโฆ
Roman bridges, Umayyad palaces, Almohad baths and the archaeology of Europe's most advanced medievalโฆ
The only Greek island never ruled by the Ottomans: Corinthian colony, Venetian fortress-city, Frenchโฆ
Beyond the Temple of Apollo: the fortress of Acrocorinth, the Hexamilion wall, sunken harbours and tโฆ
From a 7th-century monastic settlement and Marlborough's siege guns to the Burning of Cork and the lโฆ
From Roman Pelendava and Dacian hoards to the Bibescu boyar dynasty, the 1848 revolution and Ceausesโฆ
From the 1693 founding square and the city's oldest church to Polish log houses, the Serra do Mar raโฆ
Megalithic fortresses, chronicler houses, Cusco School canvases and the palaces the conquistadors buโฆ
Cham sandstone, the 1858 citadel that stopped the French, war-era relics and 500-year-old villages bโฆ
From Palgongsan's 1,000-year-old stone Buddha to the Japanese-era streets where Korea's independenceโฆ
Mountain fortresses of the Baekje kingdom, Joseon Confucian academies, Japanese-era warehouse quarteโฆ
Gorรฉe's slave house, colonial Plateau architecture, IFAN's ethnographic vaults and the Lรฉbou fishingโฆ
From Bronze Age shell mounds and the Ming-era Jinzhou walls to Lรผshun's Russo-Japanese battlefields,โฆ
From John Neely Bryan's 1841 cedar cabin on the Trinity bluff to the Freedman's Cemetery of Old Nortโฆ
Roman city walls, an Ayyubid fortress on flat ground, Sinan's pilgrim complex and the graves of Salaโฆ
From 15th-century pillar tombs and Sultan Majid's coral-block boma to the hall where Nyerere took ofโฆ
From the 12th-century Qutb Minar to the Partition archives โ walking the seven (or eight) successiveโฆ