The Smooth Guide

• A long weekend in... San Miguel de Allende

  

  A hotbed of historic architecture and sumptuous hotels in Mexico

• A long weekend in… Hobart

  

  Inventive artists and laid-back charm abound in Tasmania’s modest capital

• A long weekend in... São Paulo

  

  Brazil’s smartest city boasts chic shopping, wide-ranging gastronomy – and a rainforest park

• A long weekend in… Syracuse

  

  This ancient Sicilian city is brought bang up to date by chic new inns and creative cuisine

• A long weekend in… Washington, DC

  

  There’s a new vibrancy at large in the US capital

• A weekend in Avignon with Vanessa Bruno

  

  The fashion designer conducts a personal tour of the Provençal town

• A long weekend in… Fez

  

  With its ancient medina and newly chic riads and cafés, this Moroccan city has a powerful allure

• A long weekend in… St Petersburg

  

  Contemporary creativity combines with classical riches in Russia’s former capital

• A long weekend in… Capri

  

  A ruggedly handsome Italian island

• A long weekend in… Honolulu

  

  Now is a good time to surf the zeigeist in Hawaii’s newly cool capital

• Archive Choice: The Smooth Guide – Porto

  

  Where the streets echo with vibrant culture and the footsteps of locals at play

• A long weekend in… Bogotá

  

  Colombia’s capital has set aside its old problems to become a new cultural and gastronomic hub

• A long weekend in… Copenhagen

  

  There’s a new energy at large in the picturesque Danish capital

• A long weekend in… Lima

  

  Travellers are warming to the city’s elegant cultural spaces and vibrant culinary scene

• A long weekend in Beirut with Elie Saab

  

  A guided tour of the revived city’s hotspots, conducted by the Lebanese fashion designer

• A long weekend in… Melbourne

  

  Sampling the rare urban magic of the southern hemisphere’s most vibrant and creative city

• A long weekend in… Brussels

  

  Bureaucrats are only a small part of the story of a city that has acquired new cachet

• A long weekend in… Tripoli

  

  The Libyan capital offers unexpected delights, and a newly warm welcome

• A long weekend in Stockholm with Jonny Johansson

  

  The fashion designer gives a guided tour of the Swedish capital’s hotspots

• A long weekend in… Valencia

  

  With its stunning culinary and cultural endowments, this Spanish gem is a city on the move

• A long weekend in… Hangzhou

  

  This ancient city offers heritage and modernity amid deeply luxurious surroundings

• A long weekend in… Calcutta

  

  This extraordinary city offers style as well as chaos, chic shopping as well as colonialism

• A long weekend in Mexico City with Michael Nyman

  

  Why the composer adores his second city

• A long weekend in… Kyoto

  

  Japan’s ancient capital is snapping with energy

• A long weekend in… Cape Town

  

  Staggeringly beautiful, creatively resurgent, it’s ready for the World Cup kick-off

• A long weekend in… Glasgow

  

  The city with a gritty past is now known for its great galleries and fine shopping

• A long weekend in New York with Jason Wu

  

  The rising star of fashion design reveals his home city’s nooks and niches

• A long weekend in… Tangiers

  

  Morocco’s port city is full of fresh allure and inspiration

• A long weekend in… Jerusalem

  

  Ancient and modern collide and combine in the Holy City

• A long weekend in… Athens

  

  Ancient glories and contemporary pleasures in the Greek capital