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Best Culture Destinations

17 city guides · 3-day culture itineraries

3-day city guides focused on museums, galleries, performing arts and local creative scenes.

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Middle East
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi

The Universal Museum, Islamic heritage and the UAE's extraordinary investment in cultural infrastruc…

Asia
🇮🇳 India

Agra

Inlay workshops, Kalakriti's Mughal theatre, the Mughal Museum's stalled halls and the Braj-Hindi fo…

Middle East
🇸🇾 Syria

Aleppo

The Citadel, the world's longest souks, Dead Cities and the Silk Road heritage…

Middle East
🇯🇴 Jordan

Amman

Contemporary Arab art in restored 1920s villas, Circassian-era architecture, oud recitals and the pr…

Europe
🇳🇱 Netherlands

Amsterdam

Van Gogh's letters, the Concertgebouw's legendary acoustics, and artist squats turned studio complex…

Europe
🇬🇷 Greece

Athens

Byzantine icons, Bauhaus-era neoclassicism, Onassis-funded opera and the anarchist murals of Exarchi…

Europe
🇩🇪 Germany

Berlin

The finest museum collection in Germany, Bauhaus architecture, the Philharmoniker and the art scene…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Denver

Clyfford Still's private universe, Adjaye and Graves architecture, Five Points jazz history and the …

Europe
🇬🇧 Scotland

Glasgow

Mackintosh interiors, Burrell treasures, Citizens Theatre nights and the Barras art scene across thr…

Europe
🇬🇷 Greece

Heraklion

Byzantine icons, El Greco's birthplace, Venetian bastions and living lyra music across Crete's capit…

Asia
🇨🇳 China

Hong Kong

The finest new museum in Asia, colonial law courts, Cantonese opera and Hong Kong's extraordinary ar…

Middle East
🇮🇷 Iran

Mashhad

The world's largest mosque complex, Timurid masterpieces, saffron bazaar and Omar Khayyam's tomb…

Africa
🇸🇴 Somalia

Mogadishu

Swahili-Arab merchant architecture, salvaged museum treasures and the poets, painters and oud player…

Europe
🇫🇷 France

Paris

Impressionism, modern art, Gothic masterpieces and the most beautiful buildings in the world…

Africa
🇲🇦 Morocco

Rabat

Hassan Tower, Chellah necropolis, the finest Moroccan contemporary art museum and the quietest medin…

Oceania
🇦🇺 Australia

Sydney

The oldest continuous culture in the world, Jørn Utzon's masterpiece and Australia's finest art coll…

Europe
🇮🇹 Italy

Verona

Mantegna altarpieces, Carlo Scarpa's radical museum design, Veronese fresco cycles and the workshops…