Berlin in five places

The politics of memory in postwar Germany

This former industrial powerhouse in western Germany has transformed its old factories into art galleries, history museums and culinary spaces

Switzerland’s largest city may have built its reputation as a financial powerhouse, but its real currency is its surprisingly imaginative food and drink scene, from urban wineries to sushi restaurants on Lake Zurich

Eleven friends of COUNTRY LIFE pen a love letter to their small, yet oh so distinctive patches of the British Isles, from the big skies of the north Norfolk coast to the street art of Belfast, from the glens of Perthshire to the Exe estuary in Devon via the apple orchards of Herefordshire

An imperial Nazi eagle and a Swastika are etched onto a wall. The year’s hottest day is thus far shielded by the 47,000 cubic metres of concrete that surrounds us in a damp, squalid and oppressive win

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