Category: Monuments
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Tangier: Where Africa Watches Europe Across the Water
There is a cafe terrace in Tangier where, on a clear afternoon, you can drink mint tea and see Spain.…
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Fez and the Middle Atlas: Cedar Forests, Berber Wool and the Oldest Medina on Earth
Three hours after leaving the oldest continuously inhabited medieval city in the world, I was sitting in a cedar forest…
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Jaipur, the Pink City: Palaces, Bazaars and the Best Doorways in India
Jaipur is the city that made me fall for Rajasthan, and it did it with a color. In 1876, the…
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Gaudí’s Barcelona: A City Built by Imagination
Barcelona is the only city I know where the architecture makes people laugh out loud. Not mockingly. Delightedly. You turn…
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The Alhambra at Dawn: Granada’s Palace of Light and Water
There is a reason every guidebook, every poet, and every taxi driver in Andalusia tells you the same thing: you…
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Seville’s Moorish Wonders: Architecture That Stops You in Your Tracks
Seville is a city you walk slowly through, neck craned upward. From the soaring Giralda tower to the Royal Alcázar’s…
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The Taj Mahal: India’s Monument to Love
No photograph prepares you for the first time you see the Taj Mahal in person. I arrived just before sunrise,…
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Plaza de España: Seville’s Most Breathtaking Landmark
Some places make you stop mid-step. Plaza de España in Seville is one of them. I had seen the photos,…
