Maps by people who know the place
Every map here is about one thing.
Each one is kept up by someone who knows the place, with the details you'd actually ask about: which lidos stay open in winter, which cafés a city protects by law, where the ping-pong tables are.
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- The stadiums in the running for the 2030 World Cup — Six countries, three continents and a tournament that opens in Montevideo before moving to Iberia and North Africa: the 2030 venue list is…
- Lisbon's municipal market halls — Lisbon's covered markets were built between 1892 and 1965 as civic infrastructure, one hall per parish, and they are now splitting into two…
- Lyon's public swimming pools, the ones the city runs — Lyon rotates its pools by season instead of running them all at once: seven stay open through the year, two open-air sites carry the summer…
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- Lisbon's cervejarias trading for half a century or more — A cervejaria is not a brewery and not quite a restaurant: it is a beer hall with a marble counter, a tank of draught running all day, and a…
- The lambic brewers and blenders of HORAL, Belgium's guild of traditional lambic — Lambic is brewed nowhere else: wild yeast from the Senne valley, wort cooled overnight in open vessels, years in oak, then blended into gue…
- Brighton pubs on CAMRA's inventory of historic interiors — CAMRA's National Inventory grades what survives inside a pub, not what the frontage looks like: counters, bar backs, ceilings, screens, the…
- York pubs on CAMRA's inventory of historic interiors — CAMRA's inventory grades what is physically left of a pub's interior, not the beer or the welcome: three stars for a room that has barely b…
- Baden-Württemberg's palaces the state palace administration keeps — When the monarchies of Baden and Württemberg ended, their residences did not go to heirs or buyers: they stayed with the state, and a publi…
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