A Favorite Spot

What’s Your Favorite City?

Published April 6th, 2012

What’s Your Favorite City?
Istanbul, Marrakech, Barcelona, Luan Prabang, New York or Shanghai, what’s your favorite city? We’re celebrating the one year anniversary of the Longitude Blog, and invite you dear readers to contribute your favorite city. In keeping with the spirit of the blog, let us know some magical, memorable or surprising spot in a favorite city.  Comment
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Square du Vert Galant, Paris

Published March 30th, 2012

Square du Vert Galant, Paris
Kindly contributed by Susan Cahill, author of the new Hidden Gardens of Paris, A Guide to the Parks, Squares, and Woodlands of the City of Light. “They’re easy to miss, the off-the-beaten-track green spaces of Paris. But whether by metro or on foot — Julia Childs’ way of getting to know the city — you
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Fort Tiracol, Goa

Published February 28th, 2012

Fort Tiracol, Goa
The irrepressible Fiona Caulfield writes in the new Love Goa guide, that “by the end of the 16th century, Goa, then known as Goa Dourado or Golden Goa, was the capital of the world’s spice trade and one of the richest places on earth, with a population larger than London or Paris.”  The convents, seminaries
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Deception Island

Published November 11th, 2011

Deception Island
Kindly Contributed by Joan Boothe, Antarctic traveler and author of The Storied Ice: Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in Antarctica’s Peninsula Region. “When I was eight or nine years old, I read about Scott and Amundsen and the “Race for the South Pole,” and from then on, I was hooked on Antarctic history and things Antarctic
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