City Trips: city breaks in three days

A city reveals itself in neighbourhoods, not in lists. Our city guides follow the house formula of one place and three days, with a plan for every morning, afternoon and evening, where to stay as a neighbourhood and how to arrive without losing half a day.

City Trips

72 hours in Málaga: culture, food and the sea

Moorish fortresses, Picasso’s birthplace, a market behind a medieval gate and sardines grilled in boats on the beach: three unhurried days in Andalusia’s port city.

6 min read

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A weekend in Lisbon, and what fits together

Friday to Sunday in Lisbon, planned by neighbourhood so you climb each hill only once: Baixa and Chiado, Alfama and Graça, then Belém and the river.

6 min read

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72 hours in Hamburg: harbour, brick and water

Brick warehouses on the canals, a public plaza high above the port, harbour ferries on a normal ticket and a fish market at dawn: three days in Germany’s great port city.

6 min read

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72 hours in Stockholm: islands, light and Gamla Stan

Three days across the islands of the Swedish capital, from the lanes of Gamla Stan to the Vasa warship, a slow fika on Södermalm and a first boat to the archipelago.

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72 hours in Vienna: coffee houses, palaces and wine taverns

Three days in the Austrian capital, from St Stephen’s Cathedral and the Ring trams to Schönbrunn, the Riesenrad and a long evening at a Heuriger among the vines.

6 min read

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Palma through the eyes of the people who live there

How residents use Mallorca’s capital: morning markets, a late lunch, the evening stroll along the bay and the quieter neighbourhoods beyond the cathedral.

5 min read

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