Cultural trips
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A great little place I know Cedar Lewisohn on the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands
The artist feels right at home at this utopian art and design institute, which also welcomes visitors for events and the best coffee in town
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It’s home to great art and music, but the city of spies and Sigmund Freud also has an edgy vibe – and a new buzz, discovers Kevin Rushby
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With its sleepy old town, unshowy bars and unique music scene, Montevideo is a capital city like no other. And that’s just how Vicky Baker likes it
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That Newcastle was voted best UK city by Guardian readers was no surprise to Geordies. Tynesider Harry Pearson looks afresh at ancient institutions and new restaurants and galleries in the friendly, fun-loving ‘toon’
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Singapore is more than a city of gleaming shopping malls - it also has a vibrant contemporary arts scene. Archiwalks founder Fabian Lua picks out great galleries and design-led sights
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The London-based guitarist is very impressed with FAC, a new arts space in a converted factory, offering cutting-edge art, music, dance and cinema
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Beyond the mosques and palaces, Turkey’s cultural capital has lots to fill a city break, from neighbourhood tours and art galleries to a chic ‘hole in the wall’ cafe. Lydia Bell has the inside track
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A trio of redevelopments by the Landmark Trust will help the charity celebrate its 50th birthday in 2015
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The old, the new and the renovated make for a rich panorama of structural design in Singapore. Architect Tiah Nan Chyuan takes in the forest, as well as decaying industrial zones
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It’s 25 years since the fall of the Wall and Berlin is celebrating with a vast light installation of white balloons, but there are dozens of other reasons to visit this autumn
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Choquequirao is one of the most remote Inca ruins in the Peruvian Andes, but plans for a cable car could bring much change to Machu Picchu’s ‘little sister’
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Brighten up your winter with a trip to a music festival, whether it’s in a hip European city, amid the crisp air of the ski slopes or long-haul to Australia and beyond
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Memories of partying in fields may be fading, but there are plenty of winter music festivals in Britain to ward off the chill. Olivia Palamountain rounds up the best, from riotous disco to folk and baroque
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Fancy a creepy visit for Halloween week? Will Coldwell picks abandoned villages, factories and military bases that will send a shiver up the spine
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There’s nothing pedestrian about our list of walking tours for travellers who don’t like tours
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Just over an hour’s drive from Barcelona, but with its own airport, the ancient city of Girona is like a bite-size version of the Catalan capital – bright and lively but also easy-going
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From Marx and Engels to John Cooper Clarke, Manchester has a radical literary history. Ahead of the city’s literature festival, David Atkinson discovers its bookish haunts on a walking tour
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Italy’s heel has hogged Brits’ attention recently, but that leaves the coast, hills and pretty towns of Italy’s toe of Calabria just waiting to be discovered, says Mary Novakovich
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On the radar Frank Gehry’s Paris museum is the first in a spate of exciting new gallery openings around the world
A cultural boom in the next year will see new galleries, many by celebrity architects, opening from Paris to Los Angeles
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Controversial multi-million dollar museum is world’s first dedicated to exploring the diverse issues of human rights worldwide, with exhibit topics ranging from genocide to school bullying
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Boston’s Fort Point and Seaport district is the city’s up and coming area, with a dynamic food scene, cutting-edge galleries and a decent line in craft beers
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Dance till dawn in a bank, refuel with souvlaki, and refresh in a rooftop pool – Feargus O’Sullivan puts a new spin on a classic city
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At a year-long arts festival in northern Norway, Will Coldwell finds that it’s nature that remains the headline act
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Leipzig’s art scene mixes cool galleries and thought-provoking architecture with pre-Banksy street art and poignant reminders of the GDR, says Philip Oltermann
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When the Wall came down 25 years ago Leipzig was falling to pieces. Today it’s Germany’s new cultural hot spot
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Tate Britain’s Turner exhibition opens today, and Mike Leigh’s biopic is out soon, so when better to visit Margate, the Kent seaside town the artist loved best?
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Olivia Swann won the culture category. Here, she takes a rather challenging food tour of Phnom Penh and Siem Reap in Cambodia
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Edward Tew, winner of the history category, savours the epic views and Inca ingenuity at Machu Picchu
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Summer’s fading, the nights are drawing in … the perfect time to see some of Europe’s cities lit up as works of art. These extravagant illuminated festivals will make you see old buildings in a new light
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Battambang is at the cutting edge of the country’s new art scene. Claire Knox finds a pretty, sleepy city waking up to its creative potential
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Art lovers are set to flock to the Kent port’s third Triennial. Here are our tips on the artwork to savour, and the prime places to eat, drink and sleep
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The ancient petroglyphs in Chile’s mountainous Atacama desert see few visitors. That is a shame for several reasons, says Kevin Rushby
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Once you’ve had your fill of summer in the city, make like savvy New Yorkers and head north to chill. Here’s where the action is in the Berkshires, Hudson Valley and the Catskills
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Compare the cost of major cultural attractions in European cities, including the cost of an opera ticket, a visit to a heritage site, or entry to a top museum
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Driven by social media, a new type of (almost) legal high is on offer in St Petersburg. Ian Belcher gets a bird’s eye view of the city on a rooftop tour
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