Halloween/All Saints’ Day/All Souls’ Day Special: From celebrity resting places to historical and monumental burial grounds, to haunted graveyards, these are THE 10 MOST HAUNTING AND FAMOUS CEMETERIES IN THE WORLD ________________________________________ Back to UCityGuides.com – The Ultimate City Guides or check out UCityGuides.com Hotels – Design, Boutique, Luxury, Cheap Hotels
February is the month of romance and whether you have a special someone on Valentine’s Day or are looking for one, there will be a special event for you in or around the 14th of the month all over the world. With the northern hemisphere still feeling the cold of winter, it’s tempting to go [...]
The last decade has brought some radical changes to the travel industry. From low-cost airlines, to last-minute online booking, to the large number of stylish hostels, to the boutique and design hotel concept. There were even new destinations, with Eastern Europe (particularly Prague and Budapest) becoming one of the most popular city breaks in the [...]
When European cafés became the preferred hangouts of their city’s intellectuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they turned into cultural institutions with ornate, palatial interiors. Many if not most of them remain open today, although the main visitors are now tourists guided by their guidebooks. Those cafés are now essentially museums where [...]
Whether stunningly sited or blending extraordinary architecture with magnificent scenery, the world’s most beautiful cities are captivating. While globalization has stripped many great metropolises of their aesthetic authenticity and bought much of their soul, there are still many cities that remain true to themselves, clinging to their cultural, architectural, and natural heritage. UCityGuides.com has made [...]
It’s June! That means summer! That means beach! That means urban pleasures in the sun, and in some lucky metropolises, urban beaches! No, we’re not talking about those seasonal man-made beaches increasingly common in European cities located far away from the coast. We’re talking about shores created by nature, facing real oceans, and with the [...]
In our previous Architourist Report we took you to Oscar Niemeyer’s Brasilia, the Brazilian capital that has been nominated for Urban Wonder of the World. For this report we’re still in the same country, and bring you an iconic landmark from the same architect, but this time in Rio de Janeiro. Technically it’s in the [...]
TAKE YOUR PICK: STAY AT ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST GLAMOROUS LANDMARK HOTELS OR IN A NOTORIOUS HILLSIDE SLUM It has welcomed kings and queens, and famous celebrities from Orson Welles to Mick Jagger. It was one of the world’s most glamorous addresses in the first decades since it opened in 1923, and although it [...]
