Places Savvy

The Acropolis has become the byword for Athens, though every Greek city sported an acropolis, an upper town. It was built and destroyed sev...

Books with a certain patina aren’t always the worst ones to read. If you are going on a holiday to Austria (or if you never considered doin...

Abbottabad has been all over the news for all the wrong reasons, thanks to someone called Ossama Bin Laden. The town on the Indian subconti...

When a relatively new church built in 1961 fell into disrepair, the diocese of Freiburg (Germany) decided to sell it for profane uses in 20...

La Suisse n’existe pas (French for Switzerland doesn’t exist) was once used as the title for the Swiss exhibit at a World Exhibition. It se...