The Gaudí Tour: Barcelona's Living Architecture

The Hotel Arts occupies one of the twin towers that defined the Barcelona skyline after the 1992 Olympics. Thirty years on, it remains one of the finest luxury hotels in the city — and the location, directly on the Barceloneta seafront, is unmatched.

Converted from the grain elevator of the Royal Cape Yacht Club, The Silo sits atop the Zeitz MOCAA museum in the V&A Waterfront. It is, without qualification, one of the most extraordinary hotels in the world.

The Mark sits on 77th Street, half a block from the Metropolitan Museum. It has been expertly repositioned as New York's most stylish residential-feeling hotel — which is quite a specific achievement in a city of extraordinary hotels.

Dubai has built the most extraordinary skyline on earth in under 50 years. We tour the architecture — from the traditional wind towers of Al Fahidi to the impossible ambition of the Burj Khalifa.

The Uffizi contains more Renaissance masterpieces than anywhere on earth, and most visitors see less than 10% of them. We plot the essential 90-minute route and explain what you are actually looking at.