Check in at London's Dorset Square Hotel, a couple of minutes' walk from Marylebone station and five minutes from Baker Street Tube.

Justine Tyerman discovers Castelluccio, in Umbria, Italy.

The Boca Juniors home ground, La Bombonera, is designed to intimidate, finds Patrick McKendry.

Finland's capital is aglow with colourful lights and lasers piercing the black winter skies and lighting up downtown buildings providing a much-needed burst of illumination during the darkest days of the year.

Justine Tyerman keeps a promise made nearly three decades ago to make a pilgrimage to Rome, The Eternal City.

When you’ve strolled around the City of Love visiting icons like the Lourve, Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower and eaten more than your share of fresh baguettes and gooey cheese, here are five off-the-beaten-track things to write home about.

Julia Shallcrass visits Amsterdam, which colours its history with fun and interactive museums.

The Spencer Family have lived in the same house for 500 years; I've been living in mine for 15, yet they don't seem to have accumulated nearly so much clutter, writes Jill Worrall.

Italy's most prominent anti-Mafia campaigner has appeared in court to sue the Mobsters who ordered his death.

In the rocky Croatian hills, Jim Eagles enjoys the comfort of fiery spirits and food.

This intriguing city with Slovakian and Hungarian heritage is next year’s European Capital of Culture.

The southern port of Marseilles is unlike other French cities. That becomes apparent as soon as the visitor steps from the train at Saint-Charles terminus, high above the city.

Communist East Germany allowed Western drug companies to use its medical patients as unwitting guinea pigs for tests.