Spot urbani dimenticati: cortili, quartieri, scorci e luoghi minori delle città, lontano dalle file.
In the heart of the Marrakech souk, a Saadian palace restored up to 2016: two gardens and a tower with views over the rooftops and the Atlas.
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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
In Barracas, Buenos Aires, over 40 façades covered in Venetian mosaic: the Pasaje Lanín, the lived-in artwork of Marino Santa María.
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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.
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Greenacre Park, Turtle Bay: a 25-foot waterfall in a vest-pocket park at 217 E 51st St, a gift from the Rockefellers in 1971.
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Above 55 Water Street, an acre of lawn and wood suspended over the Financial District: views of the East River, used almost only by office workers.
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In Joo Chiat, Singapore, The Intan is Alvin Yapp's Peranakan house-museum: 5,000 objects and a guided tour led by the owner himself.
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Amid votive paper and a free museum in a former Chinese opera shophouse: the 1898 corner that survived the metro in Bangkok's Chinatown.
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In Shimabara, Kyoto's pleasure quarter, Sumiya (1641) survives: the only ageya in Japan, bearing the sword marks of the Shinsengumi.
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