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20th Beijing 798 Art Festival
Beijing · China. A district-wide festival with exhibitions and activities. Individual shows keep their own dates, tickets and access arrangements. Check the official guide before travelling. 2026-09-04
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228 Peace Memorial Park
Taipei · Zhongzheng. A garden pause that also makes space for remembrance.
Bridges
25 de Abril Bridge
Lisbon · Portugal. The 25 de Abril Bridge links Lisbon with Almada across the Tagus. It carries road and rail traffic; choose a riverside viewpoint rather than planning a normal walk across it.
Cultures
A Cairo reception room in Athens
Athens · Cairo, Egypt → Athens · Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Kerameikos. The Benaki Museum’s Islamic art collection includes the marble-faced interior of a reception room from a seventeenth-century Cairo mansion. It brings pa…
Cultures
A Chinese connection on the menu
Lima · Chinese-Peruvian food culture → Lima · Chifas across Lima. Lima’s food culture includes chifas, restaurants rooted in Chinese cooking within Peru. They offer a way to explore cultural exchange through everyday food, alon…
Cultures
A Chinese landscape in Chinatown
Vancouver · Chinese garden traditions → Vancouver · Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. The garden brings classical Chinese design into Vancouver’s Chinatown. Its pond, miniature trees and rocks imported from China make a…
Cultures
A city of refuge remembered
Shanghai · European Jewish refugees → Shanghai · Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. The museum incorporates a former synagogue and tells the stories of Jewish refugees who lived in Shanghai during the 1930s and 1940s. Passports, …
Cultures
A former Japanese-era hotel
Taipei · Japanese-period history → Taipei · Beitou Museum. Beitou Museum occupies a Japanese occupation-era building once used as the Koyama Hotel. The architecture and building-history display connect present-day Taipei with i…
Cultures
A friendship garden from Japan
Vienna · Setagaya, Tokyo → Vienna · Setagayapark, Döbling. Designed by Japanese landscape gardener Ken Nakajima, Setagayapark reflects the cultural relationship between Vienna’s Döbling district and Tokyo’s Setagaya district. P…
Cultures
A garden where traditions meet
Delhi · Persian and Indian traditions → Delhi · Humayun’s Tomb. Humayun’s Tomb combines Persian architectural ideas with Indian craftsmanship. Its geometric garden and water channels help explain how garden-tomb design develope…
Cultures
A Hindu temple in Chinatown
Singapore · Tamil Hindu heritage → Singapore · Sri Mariamman Temple, Chinatown. Sri Mariamman Temple shows why a neighbourhood name never tells its whole cultural story. Founded by Narayana Pillay, it has served generations of …
Kids science
A hydroelectric dam
Some dams store water that can help generate electricity. Water & energy
Cultures
A Japanese garden on the hillside
Santiago · Japanese garden traditions → Santiago · Japanese Garden, Parque Metropolitano. The Japanese Garden is one of the cultural landscapes within Santiago’s Parque Metropolitano. It adds another perspective to a visit to C…
Cultures
A Japanese garden with a local history
San Francisco · Japanese heritage → San Francisco · Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park. The Japanese Tea Garden has welcomed visitors since 1894. Its garden forms and later history connect San Francisco with Japanese and Jap…
Cultures
A journey beyond Japan
Tokyo · China, Korea and wider Asia → Tokyo · Tokyo National Museum, Toyokan. The Toyokan brings together art from China, Korea, India, Southeast Asia and other regions. Its Chinese and Korean Buddhist sculptures offer a way to…
Cultures
A Kashan hunting tapestry in Munich
Munich · Kashan, Iran → Bavaria, via Poland · Residenz Treasury. The Treasury catalogue identifies object 1240 as a silk-and-gold tapestry from Kashan, Iran, around 1600. It came to the Wittelsbach family through a Polish royal…
Cultures
A library founded by Portuguese immigrants
Rio de Janeiro · Portugal → Rio de Janeiro · Real Gabinete Português de Leitura. Portuguese immigrants founded the reading institution in 1837. Its library and architecture preserve a literary connection between Portugal and Br…
Cultures
A message of peace across borders
Reykjavík · Yoko Ono’s international art → Reykjavík · Imagine Peace Tower, Viðey. Yoko Ono created the Imagine Peace Tower in memory of John Lennon. This international artwork gives a small island off Reykjavík a role in a wid…
Cultures
A mosque built through international support
Seoul · International Muslim communities → Seoul · Seoul Central Mosque, Hannam-dong. Opened in 1976, the mosque was built on land provided by Korea with support from Muslim-majority countries, including Saudi Arabia. It connec…
Cultures
A multicultural boulevard
San José · Chinese heritage → San José · Barrio Chino. San José’s municipal planning records describe Barrio Chino as a multicultural and commercial area. It provides a starting point for exploring Chinese connections within th…
Cultures
A Nepalese craftsman’s Beijing landmark
Beijing · Nepal → Beijing · Miaoying Temple, White Dagoba. The Nepalese craftsman Anige, also known as Arniko, participated in the design and construction of the White Dagoba. Beijing’s official guide identifies it as a witness…
Cultures
A Persian carpet with a misleading name
Lisbon · Safavid Iran → Lisbon · Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. The museum’s seventeenth-century “Polonaise” carpet was made in Persia, not Poland. The label reflects the European associations of carpets that sometimes bore Polish…
Cultures
A Polish connection beyond the centre
Istanbul · Polish heritage → Istanbul region · Polonezköy. Polonezköy provides a different cultural excursion within the Istanbul region. Its Polish heritage offers a way to explore the city’s links beyond the familiar Ottoman …
Cultures
A signed Kashan bowl from 1204
Copenhagen · Kashan, Iran → Copenhagen · The David Collection. A lustre-painted bowl in the David Collection is signed by the potter Abu Zayd of Kashan and dated February–March 1204. Its figures and dense decoration offer anoth…