Borghi, arte e storia minore
Si occupa di borghi, centri storici, chiese e siti archeologici: paesi sotto i mille abitanti e architetture fuori dalle guide turistiche ufficiali.
A cobbled little square with a chapel from 1530 in the Roma Norte of CDMX: the ancient islet of Aztacalco and the set of Los Olvidados.
Jun 28, 2026
In San Telmo, beneath a house from 1830, a labyrinth of tunnels and cisterns tells four centuries of underground Buenos Aires.
Jun 28, 2026
In Barracas, the 1876 neo-Gothic church for Felicitas Guerrero, with túneles from 1893 and the Templo Escondido: tours only at month's end.
Jun 28, 2026
At the Enrique Larreta house-museum in Belgrano survives an Andalusian garden inspired by the Alhambra: box hedges, fountains and majolica in Buenos Aires.
Jun 28, 2026
In Barracas, Buenos Aires, over 40 façades covered in Venetian mosaic: the Pasaje Lanín, the lived-in artwork of Marino Santa María.
Jun 28, 2026
In Cairo, behind the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, a circular wooden hall where the Mevlevi dervishes danced: the Mevlevi Museum.
Jun 28, 2026
On Roda Island in Cairo, a well dating to 861 AD, fitted with a graduated column, once measured the Nile's floods. Its history, what to see, and how to get there.
Jun 28, 2026
A few steps from al-Muizz Street, a 1648 mansion with a green courtyard, a fountain and mashrabiya. The Islamic Cairo that almost no one steps inside to see.
Jun 28, 2026
The Basilique Notre-Dame d'Heliopolis in Cairo: a Byzantine dome, Baron Empain's crypt and the Art Nouveau boulevards of the district he founded.
Jun 28, 2026