On 26 and 27 September 2026 I guided twenty people across the bridges of Venice, from the station to the Rialto: two hours a day looking at who builds, rebuilds and maintains the crossings a city on water cannot live without.
Ten petrol stations from the 1930s to the 1950s built as architecture: Arne Jacobsen at Skovshoved, Fiat Tagliero in Asmara, Cereghini at Lecco, Bacciocchi in Milan, OZO Bellevue, Purfina in Arnhem.
Painted on render, cut into travertine, cast in metal script, enamelled by the state monopoly: in two hundred metres Santarcangelo di Romagna shows four centuries of shop lettering. We looked for a rule protecting any of it and found none.
The Art Nouveau map most people carry has six cities. A catalogue of 10,000+ heritage places tells a wider story — from Oradea and Subotica to Melilla and Ålesund.
Palermo produced one of Europe’s finest chapters of Art Nouveau, shaped by architect Ernesto Basile and financed by the Florio dynasty — this walking guide covers four surviving Liberty buildings, from a grand waterfront hotel to a pleasure complex.
A walking guide to Milan’s Liberty architecture — the Italian Art Nouveau — anchored on Giuseppe Sommaruga’s Palazzo Castiglioni, the tiled façades of Porta Venezia, and the ironwork of Alessandro Mazzucotelli.
A walking guide to Turin’s Stile Liberty architecture, tracing Pietro Fenoglio’s own house, two Po hill villas, an early eclectic palazzo, and the 1902 Exposition that launched Italian Art Nouveau across the city’s best-preserved Liberty district.
A walking guide to Modernista Barcelona through its three masters — Gaudí, Domènech i Montaner and Puig i Cadafalch — from the Block of Discord to the Sagrada Família, with every building linked to its CHO place card.
Art Nouveau and Liberty are the same curving, floral movement (1890-1915); Art Deco is the geometric style of the 1920s-30s. How to tell them apart at a glance.
