120 city guides ยท 3-day history itineraries
3-day city guides centred on historical sites, monuments, old quarters and untold stories.
From Mopsuestia's ark mosaic and crag-top Armenian fortresses to cotton-boom churches, the 1882 clocโฆ
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 Roman-era Steen fortress and the world's first stock exchange to the Nazi V-bomb scars and โฆ
Kerameikos graves, Roman marble, Byzantine icons, the 1821 revolt and the tank that broke the junta โฆ
Papal palaces, 14th-century schism, Roman ruins across the river and the walled city that ruled Chriโฆ
Zoroastrian fire altars, Nobel brothers' oil mansions, Soviet-era memorials and the Absheron peninsuโฆ
Roman colony walls, medieval Gothic guildhalls, Civil War air-raid shelters and the archives of a ciโฆ
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
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
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 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
From the 4th-century Roman ramparts of Avaricum to the Hundred Years' War court of Charles VII โ thrโฆ
From a Great Moravian fortress and a Danube limes fort to the bulldozed Jewish quarter and a Soviet โฆ
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
Six founding sultans, the earliest Ottoman architecture on earth, and the silk-road caravanserais thโฆ
From an 1130 crusader round church and Roman-road earthworks to the Cavendish lab where the atom wasโฆ
From the Norman crypt where Becket's blood was mopped up to the Roman mosaic 4m below the modern higโฆ
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
Greek theatres buried under lava, a Norman castle stranded inland by an eruption, Benedictine cloistโฆ
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 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
A city besieged nine times: from Charles the Bold's 1466 destruction to the 674 civilians shot in Auโฆ
From the Norse longphort on the Black Pool to the bullet-scarred GPO and the graves of the men who mโฆ
Monasteries, state archives, quarantine yards and war photography โ 1,000 years of Ragusa told throuโฆ
From the shattered Kaiserpfalz at Kaiserswerth to the Gestapo files, Heine's exile letters and Carl โฆ
Iron Age hillforts, a royal palace where a murder was done, plague-sealed closes and the graveyard tโฆ
From a reconstructed Bronze Age settlement on the Dommel to the liberation date carved into the cityโฆ
From the Roman city of Ossonoba at Milreu to the Carmo bone chapel and the 1249 Reconquista walls ofโฆ
A chronological walk through Florence: Etruscan Tuscany, the medieval commune, the Medici dynasty, Iโฆ
Imperial election chapels, the first German parliament, bombed-and-rebuilt quarters and the Jewish Fโฆ
Fortresses, sugar-money churches and Madeira wine lodges tracing 600 years of an Atlantic colony fouโฆ
Buried Norman halls, a 1320 church Columbus prayed in, tower-house ruins and the graves of a clearedโฆ
Rescued Roman floor mosaics, Neo-Hittite orthostats, a Mithras cave-temple and the black-basalt laneโฆ
From the 13th-century Cistercian abbey at Oliwa to Gate No. 2 of the Lenin Shipyard, walked in chronโฆ
From the Roman sanctuary buried beneath the cathedral to the Palais des Nations where the League of โฆ
Crusader towers, Dominican cloisters, Mazzini's birth house and the marble necropolis of a merchant โฆ
Belfry strongboxes, flattened abbeys, weaver riots and cotton mills โ the history of a city that fouโฆ
From Europe's last Neanderthal caves and a 1333 Marinid keep to Trafalgar graves, WWII galleries andโฆ
From St Mungo's 12th-century crypt to the Clyde shipyards that built a quarter of the world's shipsโฆ
Iconoclast frescoes, Seljuk caravanserai stonework, Ottoman endowments and the Greek villages emptieโฆ
From the 1640s Dutch bastions and Sweden's oldest surviving warehouse to the Chinese porcelain of thโฆ
Zirid bathhouses, the last Muslim palace of Al-Andalus, the crypt of the Catholic Monarchs and the cโฆ
Friedrich III's imperial residence, a Kristallnacht synagogue rebuilt, and 20km of forced-labour tunโฆ
From the AD 832 Hammaburg fortress to the ruins of Operation Gomorrah, walked in three days along thโฆ
From the 1550 river rapids where Gustav Vasa founded the town to the bomb marks left unrepaired on Sโฆ
From a Bronze Age throne room to the bastion where Kazantzakis is buried โ five thousand years of ocโฆ
Fortified princely monasteries, the house where Romania was born in 1859, and the neighbourhoods thaโฆ
From Maximilian I's bronze mourners and the Habsburg imperial residence to Andreas Hofer's 1809 upriโฆ
From Bronze Age burial cairns and a vitrified Pictish hillfort to Culloden Moor, Hanoverian fortressโฆ
Underground cisterns, mosaic churches, stopped palace clocks and cemetery hills โ the layers beneathโฆ
From the Bronze Age mound at Bayraklฤฑ to the fire zone of 1922 โ Izmir's layers walked in orderโฆ
Medieval Silesian strongholds, the 1921 plebiscite, workers' brick colonies and the miners shot at Wโฆ
From Gothic castle walls and Vytautas-era churches to the tsarist fort ring, the Holocaust sites andโฆ
From the vanished Kazan Khanate to Soviet-era memorials and the wooden Old Tatar Quarter, told throuโฆ
A Khazar-era hillfort, the 1689 Protection Cathedral, the writers' house the NKVD emptied, and the rโฆ
From Yaroslav the Wise's 11th-century ramparts to Babyn Yar, Chornobyl and the sniper alley of 2014โฆ
Gothic bastions, the excavated Lower Gate, the old royal mint and the hall where the 1945 Koลกice Govโฆ
Roman mosaics at Risan, a church shared by two faiths since 1195, and the military road that Austriaโฆ
From Piast burial crypts under Wawel to the Nazi ghetto walls of Podgรณrze โ Krakรณw's thousand years โฆ
From Meotian burial gold and the 1793 Cossack land grant to the Ice March, the 1942โ43 Nazi occupatiโฆ
From the Roman port of Lousonna to the Bernese conquest, the Vaudois Revolution and the exiled Olympโฆ
From a 12th-century Cistercian ruin to the workhouse wards and woollen mills that built Victorian Yoโฆ
From a 1454 Burgundian hospital and Vauban's pentagonal citadel to the tunnels where 1940s resistancโฆ
Roman Lentia, Friedrich III's residence city, Bruckner's organs and the Nazi capital that Linz was hโฆ
From Visigoth ramparts and Roman theatre ruins to the Age of Discovery, the 1755 earthquake and the โฆ
From a 1207 royal charter to the world's first commercial wet dock, the Atlantic slave trade and theโฆ
From the 1st-century walls of Emona to the barbed-wire ring of the 1942 occupation, traced on footโฆ
From a 1423 market village to Litzmannstadt Ghetto โ ลรณdลบ history told through mill towns, mausoleumโฆ
A Roman amphitheatre under a gallery floor, a 1185 Templar nave, Wren's fire column and the sealed Cโฆ
Medieval hilltop churches, merchant vaults beneath the market square, Majdanek, and the street plan โฆ
Nine climbable wall towers, a Dance of Death cycle, an 1881 war panorama and the villa where Wagner โฆ
From Count Siegfried's rock of 963 to the deportation platform of 1942 โ the layered history of Euroโฆ
From Lugdunum, capital of the Three Gauls, through Europe's largest Renaissance quarter to the silk-โฆ
Roman street levels, the country's oldest church interior and gate, siege forts in the marl, and theโฆ
From Muslim Mayrit's ninth-century walls to the bullet-pocked facades of the 1936 siege, walked in cโฆ
From an Augustan theatre and a Granadan hilltop castle to the 1831 firing squad on the beach and theโฆ
From a Danish king's brick fortress to the shipyard cranes that built Sweden's modern age, tracked tโฆ
From the Roman fort at Castlefield to Peterloo, Engels and the Pankhursts โ the city where the moderโฆ
From a 2,600-year-old Phocaean harbour and 5th-century crypts to prison islands, deportation memoriaโฆ
From the imperial city where Constantine legalised Christianity to the Duke's castle, the Ambrosian โฆ
From the medieval Upper Town and the vanished Jewish quarter to Stalinist ensembles, partisan memoriโฆ
A fortress seized by a man dressed as a monk in 1297, cave-dwellers' bones in the cliff, and the chaโฆ
From a 12th-century mikvรฉ and Europe's oldest medical school to the fortified cathedral on the sea aโฆ
From Rublev's 15th-century frescoes to a Cold War bunker 65 metres under Taganka โ Moscow's layered โฆ
From 16th-century waqf mosques and Herzegovina's medieval fortresses to the Bulevar's bullet-scarredโฆ
From Ludwig I's Greek marbles and the 12th-century Petersbergl to the Feldherrnhalle putsch route, tโฆ
From the Gothic tombs of the Dukes of Lorraine to the 1477 battlefield where Charles the Bold died aโฆ
From the Breton dukes' castle and Gothic cathedral to the Atlantic slave-trade memorial and the drowโฆ
From the Greek grid of Neapolis and buried Roman theatres to Angevin castles, Bourbon palaces and thโฆ
From the Roman amphitheatre of Cemenelum to the Baroque chapels of the County of Nice and the 1860 aโฆ
Lusignan Gothic, Byzantine icons, EOKA archives and dervish lodges across a capital split since 1974โฆ
Eight centuries of Volga history, from a 1221 monastery on the Oka slope to the flat where Sakharov โฆ
Medieval Brankoviฤ monasteries, the Treaty of Karlowitz, Secession-era Serbian institutions and the โฆ
From Ob River bridge camp to Soviet war refuge: tracing how Russia's youngest metropolis built itselโฆ
From the Holy Roman crown jewels to the courtroom where the Nazi leadership faced justice, walked inโฆ
Trace 4,500 years of Arctic settlement from Saqqaq hunters and Norse farmers to Hans Egede's 1728 miโฆ