Art

Feb 16, 2018 • 5 min read

A language nerd at heart, Lonely Planet Local Alexandra Bruzzese first packed her bags and set off for the Eternal City to fulfil her childhood ambition…

Feb 15, 2018 • 9 min read

Buddhist New Year is the time to see Chiang Mai, Thailand’s second city, at its most animated, from the religious processions to the water-warring,…

Feb 13, 2018 • 6 min read

Castles – whether ruined, regal or otherwise – are a feature of the Irish landscape. With 3000 or so spread across the country, there’s no shortage of…

Feb 13, 2018 • 4 min read

Among the Kremlin grandeur, tall Stalinist buildings and gorgeous onion-domed churches, it’s easy to overlook the Russian capital’s less famous sights…

Feb 12, 2018 • 5 min read

In Québec City, the capital of French Canada, winters are ridiculously long (it can snow anytime from October to May) and residents have learned to make…

Feb 10, 2018 • 4 min read

The Ukrainian capital is an amazing place to explore, with spectacular ancient churches, a booming street art scene and delectable cuisine. But if you…

Feb 9, 2018 • 5 min read

On 16 February 2018, China marks a new year in the lunar calendar: the Year of the Dog, the 11th animal in the Chinese zodiac. Otherwise known as the…

Feb 2, 2018 • 5 min read

Like many countries in South America, Chile is famously friendly to families, no doubt inspired by the great cultural importance that Chileans place on…

Feb 2, 2018 • 5 min read

A flourishing art scene might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Amman, Jordan's capital that stretches out over seven hills and…

Jan 30, 2018 • 6 min read

With its wind-whittled landscape, honeycomb tombs and silent canyons blessed by forgotten gods, the ancient city of Petra embraces human history on an…

Jan 25, 2018 • 5 min read

Dionne Warwick called Los Angeles a great big freeway, while John Lennon called the city a big parking lot. Daily gridlock remains the norm in this…

Jan 25, 2018 • 4 min read

Travel writer Anirban Mahapatra travels all around the world, but between trips, he heads home to work as Lonely Planet Local for Kolkata. Whenever he’s…

Jan 24, 2018 • 4 min read

Portland’s weather is notorious: rain, lots of it, all winter long (and by ‘winter’ we mean October through June). Grown-ups cope with the gloom by holing…

Jan 22, 2018 • 4 min read

Trucks in India do more than just carry loads. These eccentric vehicles double as mobile canvases for outrageously colourful paintings of deities, lotus…

Jan 21, 2018 • 3 min read

It's just over two hundred years since Jane Austen died, and a little more since Pride and Prejudice, her most famous (and arguably her best) novel, was…

Jan 21, 2018 • 6 min read

It’s one of the world’s most spectacular archaeological sites, yet Machu Picchu has become a victim of its own popularity, with the 2017 introduction of a…

Jan 19, 2018 • 6 min read

Despite its small size, Belize is a mesmerizing combination of cultures and landscapes – a place that fully embraces its Central American and Caribbean…

Jan 19, 2018 • 4 min read

Sure, your friends will listen politely as you describe your trip to the Art Institute to see paint on the walls. But you'll stop them mid-yawn when you…

Jan 19, 2018 • 7 min read

Take revolutionary architecture, award-winning cuisine, an outsized musical legacy and top-flight museums, and wrap them all up in an easy-to-navigate…

Jan 18, 2018 • 5 min read

Nowhere in England packs as much historical might into as small a space as York. From Romans and Anglo-Saxons to Vikings and Normans, the list of former…

Jan 18, 2018 • 4 min read

In 2014, Lonely Planet Local Claire Bissell jumped on a plane to Amsterdam to be with her partner. She bought a bike, developed a taste for raw herring…

Jan 18, 2018 • 6 min read

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries Russia produced towering figures of world literature, including Pushkin, Chekhov, Tolstoy and Solzhenitsyn. Many of…