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Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the memory of this tragedy still lingers. But the city’s rise from the waters is a cause for celebration and hope

A selection of some of the city’s most significant historic landmarks

Fancy a cute 48 hours in the city of love? Here’s the places the locals adore…

From the hilltop terrace at Fourvière, the panoramic view over Lyon is one of the best city panoramas you will ever see. Immediately below me stands the Renaissance old town of Vieux Lyon and the twin

Animated by two profound love affairs, Gabrielle Chanel established a symbiotic connection with Britain that remains a source of inspiration for the maison a century on

FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on