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Soul of the City

Photo of Amelie Stanescu at a Berlin train station
Soul of the City

The European city where selfies are 'awkward'

By Kate Bettes

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Soul of the City

The temple feeding 100,000 people a day

By Srishti Chaudhary & Raphael Reichel
Some people believe that the superstitious beliefs found across Hong Kong are driven by the city’s highly competitive nature (Credit: Sanchai Loongroong/Getty Images)
Soul of the City

The most superstitious city on Earth?

By Matthew Keegan
Plovdiv was awarded the title of European Capital of Culture in 2019 (Credit: Mehdi33300/Alamy)
Soul of the City

Is this Europe’s most relaxed city?

By Will Buckingham
Basel is located on a particularly pastoral bend of the Rhine, with views to France’s Vosges Mountains and Germany’s Black Forest (Credit: Xantana/Getty Images)
Soul of the City

The city that joins three countries

By Robert Landon
Brighton regularly tops lists of the happiest places in the UK to live (Credit: oversnap/Getty Images)
Soul of the City

The story behind Brighton’s success

By Norman Miller
The Dutch settled on the southern tip of Manhattan in what is now the Financial District (Credit: newboy112/Getty Images)
Soul of the City

What’s left of New York’s Dutch past?

By Andrea Valentino
In 1944, the people of Warsaw started an uprising against the Nazis, an event that’s commemorated every August (Credit: Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto/Getty Images)
Culture & Identity

Why Polish people hate rules

By Olga Mecking
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Culture & Identity

Ireland’s secret to a low-key life

By Amanda Ruggeri
Cat, Rome, Italy
Adventure & Experience

The last of Rome’s cats?

By Elisabetta Abrami