Top 10 reasons to love Switzerland
From lofty mountains to high-end hotels and cutting-edge architecture, here are Rupert Mellor's top 10 reasons for falling in love with Switzerland, your Favourite European Country in our Travel Awards 2011
Blackpool visitors to enjoy high life again as tower reopens
Tourism bosses hope to lure families to Lancashire resort with attractions including Blackpool Dungeon and tower-top skywalk
10 of the best museums in Berlin
Berlin resident and travel writer Rory MacLean chooses some of the city's most impressive museums, whether you want to taste life in the former DDR or admire works by world famous artists
10 of the best films set in Berlin
Berlin has been the backdrop and even the star in movies from cold war spy thrillers to dramas about the collapse of East Germany. Andrew Pulver picks the top 10 films
Museum peace: Japan’s Naoshima island
The "art island" of Naoshima is dotted with calming concrete installations a world away from Tokyo's frenetic pace. Pico Iyer enjoys a moment of serenity
A great white hope in Avilés, Asturias
The Asturian city of Avilés is betting on its new Oscar Niemeyer arts centre delivering the 'Guggenheim effect', writes Paul Richardson
Tasmania’s cheekiest devil
Provocative and irreverent, the gambling multimillionaire David Walsh has built a breathtaking art gallery – billed as "subversive Disneyland" – on his beautiful vineyard outside Hobart in Tasmania
The pick of Europe’s art deco hotels
The best-preserved art deco hotels from Devon to Prague
Could Dundee be the new Bilbao?
The proposed designs for the V&A's new Dundee outpost bear an uncanny resemblance to the Spanish city of Bilbao. So how do the two cities compare?
High design, low price: UK holiday homes
Alain de Botton's set of cutting-edge, affordable holiday homes is bringing modernism to the masses, as Hannah Booth discovers
B&B review | Salt House, St Ives, Cornwall
If you want olde worlde style, this probably isn't for you, says Sally Shalam. But everyone else will love this stylish St Ives outpost