The Cultured Voyages guides
Cultural Travel in Europe
Travel with an interest in how a place came to be.
A painting, a neighbourhood, a regional dish or a place to stay can all shape the way you experience a trip. My guides connect those interests with the practical decisions, drawing on repeat visits and longer stays across Europe. Choose a city, follow a region or begin with the part of travel you enjoy most.
Choose your starting point
Five ways to begin
What draws you to a place?
Cities
With its port lodges across the river, Porto asks for a different kind of visit from Seville, where long lunches and time in the neighbourhoods deserve room beside the Alcázar. These guides help you work out where to go, and how much time to give it.
All city guides
Art, History & Heritage
Knowing what happened in a place changes what you notice when you get there. From the streets of Pompeii to Venice’s museums, these guides pair the history with the decisions that shape a visit: what to see, what to book and how much time to allow.
All art and history guides
Choosing a Colosseum tour
Food & Wine
In Florence, I returned to neighbourhood restaurants often enough to have favourites; in Venice, the choice of wine bar can shape an afternoon’s wandering. These guides bring together places to eat, regional food and wine-country visits, with the practical detail to plan your own.
All food and wine guides
Regions & Itineraries
Choosing a base in Provence means deciding which towns and countryside you want within reach. These guides help you work out which places fit together, where to stay between them and how much of your time the travelling will take.
All regions and itineraries
Where to stay
After a month in Palermo, I had a much clearer sense of which streets I would want to return to at the end of a day. My guides to Palermo and Florence begin with that choice of neighbourhood or base, then help you narrow down the accommodation within it.
All where-to-stay guides
The Cultured Voyages Edit
The Art of Understanding Places
Curiosity is a useful place to begin. A little context – about a building, a dish or a custom – gives you more to notice and better questions to ask when you travel.
The Art of Understanding Places brings together seven principles, each with the travel experience behind it and something to try for yourself. Get the guide free when you join The Edit, my fortnightly letter on how we see and experience travel.
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