One-day walking guides for 16 cities.
Hour-by-hour routes, where to eat along the way, what to skip, and what to slow down for. All built from personal experience, refined every time we go back.
Venice (Biennale 2026)
San Marco
The heart of Venice, Piazza San Marco, Palazzo Grassi, the major museums.
Cannaregio
The northern sestiere, Jewish quarter, best cicchetti bars, Berggruen Foundation.
Castello
Where the Biennale lives, Arsenale, Giardini, dozens of Collateral Events.
Dorsoduro
Galleries and student life, Accademia, Punta della Dogana, Peggy Guggenheim.
San Polo
Rialto, the Frari, Tintoretto’s San Rocco, the medieval west bank.
Murano
The glass island, studios, museums, and ten excellent osterie.
More of Italy
Naples
Pizza, espresso, baroque churches, and chaos. Use as a base for Pompeii.
Florence
Renaissance art capital, Uffizi, Duomo, Ponte Vecchio in a day.
Bologna
Tortellini, porticoes, the oldest university, Italy at its food-loving best.
Milan
Italy’s international city, Duomo, Last Supper, fashion, aperitivo.
Verona
Opera in a Roman arena, Romeo’s balcony, Amarone wine.
Genoa
Pesto, focaccia, UNESCO palazzi, and the largest medieval old town in Europe.
Bari + Puglia
Apulian capital, orecchiette, baroque churches, and day trips to Alberobello’s trulli.
Sorrento
Cliffs over the Bay of Naples, limoncello, lemon groves, ferries to Capri.
San Teodoro
Sardinia’s northeast coast, La Cinta beach, Cala Brandinchi, slow Sardinian food.
Switzerland
Zurich
Old town, Lake Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse, art museums.
Geneva
Lake, the UN, the medieval Old Town, French-Swiss culture at its most refined.
Basel
Where Switzerland meets France & Germany, Kunstmuseum, Münster, the Rhine.
Zermatt
Car-free alpine village under the Matterhorn, cable cars, hiking, fondue.