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  1. 1PortoPortoPorto suits travelers who want a compact, hilly, working city rather than a showcase. The old riverside center climbs steeply above the Douro, and the double-deck iron Dom Luís I Bridge carries you across to the port lodges of Vila Nova de Gaia, where the wine has long been aged and tasted. UNESCO…0
  2. 2LyonLyonLyon is the pick for travelers who come to France to eat. Its bouchons, small traditional restaurants, serve the city's rich, meat-heavy cooking, and some carry an official Bouchon Lyonnais label for keeping to local tradition. Between meals, the traboules, covered passageways cutting through…0
  3. 3OsakaOsakaOsaka is for travelers who find Tokyo polite to the point of reserve. The local motto, kuidaore, roughly "eat until you go broke," is taken seriously, and the city's old nickname, the nation's kitchen, dates to its role as Japan's rice-trading hub in the Edo period. Dotonbori's canal-side neon is…0
  4. 4IstanbulIstanbulIstanbul is the obvious case and still worth stating. Ankara has been Turkey's capital since October 13, 1923, but Istanbul remained the country's economic and cultural center. For a visitor that means Byzantine and Ottoman monuments, ferries across the Bosphorus between Europe and Asia, and long…0
  5. 5BarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelona is the choice for architecture lovers and anyone who wants a beach with their city. Gaudí's Sagrada Família reached its full height of 172.5 meters when its central Tower of Jesus Christ was completed in February 2026, making it the tallest church in the world, and his houses and Park…0
  6. 6KrakówKrakówKraków became Poland's capital in 1038 and lost the role when Sigismund III moved it to Warsaw in 1596, and that loss is the traveler's gain: the medieval core survived intact, while Warsaw's old town had to be rebuilt after World War II. Kraków's Old Town and the Kazimierz district were placed on…0
  7. 7MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne once did the capital's job: Australia's federal parliament met there from 1901 until Canberra's own Parliament House opened in 1927. Canberra today is a planned city of national institutions, rewarding for its galleries and the Australian War Memorial but quiet after hours. Melbourne is…0
  8. 8MontrealMontrealMontreal gives travelers a French-speaking North American city with its own food and festival calendar. Its bagels, boiled in honey water and baked in wood-fired ovens at shops such as St-Viateur and Fairmount, are a different thing from New York's. Late June and early July bring the Festival…0
  9. 9GlasgowGlasgowGlasgow is for travelers who find Edinburgh's Royal Mile more costume than city. Music is the draw: UNESCO named it the UK's first City of Music in August 2008, and the city hosts around 130 music events a week, from tiny bars to arenas. Victorian merchant architecture, Charles Rennie Mackintosh's…0
  10. 10AntwerpAntwerpAntwerp is the Belgian city for fashion, design and art. The Antwerp Six, graduates of the fashion department at the city's Royal Academy of Fine Arts who included Dries Van Noten and Ann Demeulemeester, put it on the fashion map, and the MoMu fashion museum tells their story within the wider…0