Some of Zurich's memorable art appears where people usually come for other reasons. At Bahnhofquai 3, Augusto Giacometti's paintings transformed an administrative
Once you have seen the river and the downtown towers, a neighborhood outing can change the scale of Chicago. The next decision is not how many
You can give a first Chicago day a clear shape without buying admission to a major attraction. Start with Millennium Park, use the Chicago Cultural Center
Literary Zurich is about more than finding a writer's name on a house. For James Joyce, the city offered exile and a setting for
Choose Mucem for Mediterranean societies, the History Museum for Marseille’s own story, Cosquer for a structured encounter with reconstructed prehistoric images, Fine Arts for earlier
A chocolate cauldron in a Geneva shop window is more than an unusual shape for a sweet. It belongs to the Escalade, the December commemoration of
When rain interrupts a downtown Chicago walk, the useful response is usually to choose one nearby indoor anchor and reduce the outdoor links. You do not
Women's history is visible in central Zurich when you look beyond the familiar monuments to men. Fraumünster connects the city with abbesses who exercised
Choose Notre-Dame de la Garde for a broad understanding of Marseille from its hill, the Pharo garden for the harbour with room to pause, or
International Geneva is often reduced to a photograph of flags outside the Palais des Nations. Its buildings tell a more varied story. A grand hotel became
If you have one day for a major Chicago museum, choose the Art Institute for sustained looking at art, the Field Museum for natural history and
Dada emerged in Zurich through a particular meeting of people, circumstances and a place to perform. During the First World War, neutral Switzerland offered refuge to
