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BCD Travel Recommends: Copenhagen
Copenhagen is an appealing and disarmingly provincial city comprised of block after block of period six-story buildings, church steeples punctuating the skyline. It’s a city that gleams with a contemporary edge, but seems to take you back hundreds of years. Whatever you’re looking for – sleek or cozy, traditional or modern – Copenhagen can provide. It’s even affordable (in Scandinavian terms).
Switzerland ranks near the top among countries with highest quality of life in the world. The country’s most cosmopolitan city is Geneva, which is also one of Europe’s priciest. The city surrounds Lake Geneva with stunning views of the Alps and Jura mountain chains and is characterized by its strong French culture, evident in both the language and the cuisine.
BCD Travel Recommends: Johannesburg
Johannesburg is the great big heart of South Africa and sometimes referred to as the “City of Gold” due to its rich gold-mining heritage. It is a dynamic cosmopolitan city teeming with towering skyscrapers, huge shopping complexes, great places to eat and interesting sites to visit. The city is recognized as the financial capital of South Africa and home to many big businesses.
Dublin ranks among the top tourist destinations in Europe, and this vibrant city hums with a palpable sense that it is creating a new cultural heritage. Cuisine and fashion now reflect Mediterranean influences. Young Dubliners flock to salsa lessons, wear Italian suits and snack on olives before dinner. Asian and Eastern European immigrants have spiced up old neighborhoods. And it’s now impossible to cross town without hearing a foreign language.
Vietnam’s thousand-year-old capital is one of the most beguiling cities in Southeast Asia – a stylish, European-influenced metropolis with manicured lakeside promenades, tree-lined boulevards, ancient pagodas and French- colonial buildings painted in a peeling palette of jade, turquoise and burgundy.
Miami, known as Greater Miami and the Beaches or just Greater Miami for short, includes a number of islands and mainland communities, including two cities – Miami and Miami Beach. Much of Miami’s appeal is due to its diverse neighborhoods, which range from the big-city, towering skyscrapers of downtown Miami (the commercial heart of the city) to Little Havana, home to the Cuban community, or to the trendy Miami Beach neighborhood of South Beach.
BCD Travel Recommends: Montreal
Montreal is unique in North America, blending a brash New World urbanity with the romantic charm of its European-flavored historic districts and a Gallic joie de vivre evident in the city’s many pavement cafés and dynamic nightlife.
In South Korea’s intoxicating capital, the old and new intertwine. On the surface, Seoul is a thoroughly modern city dissected by the River Han and cluttered with towering skyscrapers and glitzy shopping malls. It is a city driven by the world of commerce, where the pace of life is always frenetic and the streets seem permanently choked with traffic.
The Windy City, the City of Big Shoulders, the Second City, My Kind of Town – the list of traditional nicknames for Chicago is picturesque, but any attempt to capture this city’s size, swagger, pride and depth in just a few words is bound to come up short. From sports fans to gastronomes, children to art lovers, Chicago has something for everyone, and even its infamously hot summers and frigid winters aren’t enough to keep people away.
BCD Travel Recommends: Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the largest of the seven emirates. As the most important cultural city in the UAE, Abu Dhabi attracts many visitors to its established Cultural Foundation center, which is responsible for hosting various art exhibitions and musical performances from all over the globe.
