Travel Intelligence isn’t just about hotels, hotels, hotels; it’s also packed with some of the finest travel writing on the web. To see a selection of top-class travel writing about architecture, have a look through the articles listed below...
Articles in Architecture
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Eastern Promise: A Guide to Hot and Happening Berlin
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Anthea Gerrie
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Germany
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Berlin Region
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Berlin
"Can there be a city in the world whose centre has shifted as often as Berlin? We’re not just talking pre- and post-Cold War.....at every one of my three visits since the Wall came down, I’ve found the hub of all that was happening marching..."
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Sicily's Top Archaeological and Ancient Sites
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Solange Hando
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Italy
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Sicily
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Siracuse
"Sicily’s ancient sites reflect the island’s turbulent past and feature among Italy’s top archaeological wonders..."
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Linda Garland's Bali Houses
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Caroline Phillips
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Indonesia
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Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands
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Bali
"Linda Garland, 57, has decorated tropical houses for David Bowie, Richard Branson and Mick Jagger..."
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Taj Mahal: India’s Top World Heritage Site
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Solange Hando
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India
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Uttar Pradesh
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Agra
"The Taj Mahal attracts around three million visitors a year, all deeply moved by its romance and beauty and the amazing skill of 17th century craftsmen..."
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Little Britain: A Tour of Wairarapa, New Zealand
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Yvonne Van Dongen
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New Zealand
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North Island
"The fields of the Wairarapa are soft and luminously green fringed with frothy hawthorn, purple-candled polonia and the stalky remnants of dying daffodils. Calves rest in pools of sunshine while in the distance the hills gently dip and roll..."
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Mirador, Guatemala: Lost City of the Maya
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Jini Reddy
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Guatemala
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Central America
"I am standing in the centre of Tikal’s Great Plaza and the heat from its monumental temples is washing over me in waves..."
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A Stay in Ventnor, Isle of Wight
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Jeremy Seal
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United Kingdom
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Isle of Wight
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Isle of Wight
"We’ve called at Ventnor’s heritage centre where an elderly woman tells us she’s still got blackberries in the garden. The strawberries are flowering and there are lizards basking on the walls..."
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Bath: England’s Haven of the Senses
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Jeremy Seal
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United Kingdom
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South West England
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Bath
"Steam is rising into the gathering dusk from the roof-top pool of the spa building in the heart of Georgian Bath. I’m poaching myself a pleasurable pink and feeling like something of a playboy..."
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An Historical Tour Around Albania
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Jeremy Seal
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Albania
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other regions of Albania
"On a promontory high above the Vjose River valley, among olive trees and turban-topped dervish graves, we came to the ruins of Byllis. We explored the city’s stout Roman walls, its agora, theatre and bathhouse, and pottered about the column-strewn..."
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A Walk of Discovery through the Parc Saint Cloud
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Annabel Simms
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
"Overlooking a bend of the Seine to the west of Paris, the 988-acre Parc Saint Cloud is relatively unknown to foreign visitors. It was designed by Le Nôtre for a vanished château completed in 1690 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart for ‘Monsieur’, the younger..."