Instead of the Trevi Fountain: Rome's secret squares and courtyards
Tired of the crush at the Trevi Fountain? Here are the secret squares, courtyards and loggias of Rome and Lazio where you can enjoy the Baroque in peace.
Jun 29, 202655 guides · tipo
Tired of the crush at the Trevi Fountain? Here are the secret squares, courtyards and loggias of Rome and Lazio where you can enjoy the Baroque in peace.
Jun 29, 2026
In Bangkok, on the Thonburi bank, the church of Santa Cruz with its Renaissance-style dome and the Portuguese sweets of Kudi Chin.
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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.
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At the Enrique Larreta house-museum in Belgrano survives an Andalusian garden inspired by the Alhambra: box hedges, fountains and majolica in Buenos Aires.
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On an island in the Han River in Seoul, a former water-treatment plant transformed into an ecological park: concrete basins overrun by plants.
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In Kispest, the garden district of Wekerle: houses with steep roofs and wooden gateways around Kós Károly tér. How to get there.
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Kagurazaka in Tokyo: cobbled lanes of a former geisha district, the Bishamonten temple, French cafes and stairways behind the hill.
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Grundtvigs Kirke in Copenhagen: an Expressionist church built from 6 million yellow bricks with an organ-pipe façade. Free entry, in Bispebjerg.
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At Carrer del Paradís 10, in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, four 2,000-year-old Roman columns stand in the courtyard of a building. Free admission.
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