San Jose, Costa Rica
Sprawling smack in the middle of the fertile Valle Central, SAN JOSÉ has a spectacular setting, ringed by the jagged silhouettes of soaring mountains – some of them volcanoes – on all sides.
Charleston, SC
CHARLESTON, one of the finest-looking cities in the US, today spreads way beyond its original confines on the tip of a peninsula at the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers, roughly one hundred miles south of Myrtle Beach and north of Savannah, Georgia. It’s a compelling place to visit, its historic district lined with tall, narrow houses of peeling, multicolored stucco, adorned with wooden shutters and ironwork balconies wrought by slaves from Barbados.
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London, United Kingdom
London is the largest city in Europe, spread across an area more than 620 square miles of the core on the River Thames. Ethnicity is also Europe’s most diverse metropolis: around two hundred languages are spoken within the boundaries, and more than thirty percent of the population consists of first, second and third-generation immigrants. Despite Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolution, London still dominates the national horizon, too: This is a country where news and money are made, the residence of the central government and, as far as its inhabitants, provincial life begins beyond the orbit of the city street circuit encyclopedia barriers. London ’sense of superiority causes enormous resentment in the region, but it’s undeniable that the capital has a unique aura of excitement and success – in most walks of life the UK, if you want to continue, you must do so in London.
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Los Angeles, CA
The rambling metropolis of LOS ANGELES sprawls across the thousand square miles of a great desert basin, knitted together by an intricate network of congested freeways between the ocean and the snowcapped mountains. Its colorful melange of shopping malls, palm trees and swimming pools is both mildly surreal and startlingly familiar, thanks to the celluloid self-image that it has spread all over the world.
Paris, France
Long considered the paragon of style, Paris is the most glamorous city in Europe. It is at once deeply traditional – a village-like metropolis whose inhabitants continue to be notorious for their hauteur – and famously cosmopolitan.
