
Noe Valley
A family-friendly, sunny, upscale neighborhood ideal for Families, dog owners, professionals.
Food travel guides for trips planned around the table — regional dishes, market tours, cooking classes, and Michelin-to-street-food picks vetted in person by the ViaTravelers team.

A family-friendly, sunny, upscale neighborhood ideal for Families, dog owners, professionals.

A italian, foodie, waterfront neighborhood ideal for Foodies, couples, urban explorers.

A hipster, brewery-rich, diverse neighborhood ideal for Beer enthusiasts, hipsters, foodies.

Saint-Malo’s walled old town in Brittany — a granite corsair city ringed by 2 km of medieval ramparts, rebuilt after WWII, with cobbled lanes of shops and seafood restaurants.

Saint-Tropez’s historic fishing quarter northeast of the old port — narrow cobblestone lanes and honey-colored houses that drew Brigitte Bardot and the artists who made the town famous.

Salt Lake City’s walkable ‘second downtown’ — a progressive enclave of independent shops and vintage boutiques along 2100 South, anchored by 110-acre Sugar House Park.

Altstadt Salzburg is the UNESCO-listed historic core of Salzburg, Austria, containing Hohensalzburg Fortress, Getreidegasse, and the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart within a compact baroque cityscape.

The heart of San Antonio — the UNESCO-listed Alamo and the restaurant-lined River Walk winding below street level along the San Antonio River.

The colonial heart of San Cristóbal de las Casas, a Chiapas highland Pueblo Mágico — cobblestone streets, the Baroque Santo Domingo church, and Tsotsil-Tseltal craft markets.

San Diego’s 16-block Victorian historic district — gas-lamp-lined streets of restored 19th-century buildings now packed with restaurants, rooftop bars, and nightlife.





Rome’s bohemian quarter across the Tiber — ivy-draped lanes and lively piazzas around the mosaic-clad Basilica of Santa Maria, with trattorias, wine bars, and Janiculum Hill views.

Rotterdam’s regenerated south-bank waterfront — a showcase of modern architecture by the swan-necked Erasmus Bridge, with the historic Hotel New York and Koolhaas’s De Rotterdam tower.

Rüdesheim’s old town in the UNESCO-listed Rheingau — home to the Drosselgasse, a 144-metre cobbled lane of wine taverns and music in Germany’s famous Riesling country.

The heart of Playa del Carmen on the Riviera Maya — the pedestrian Quinta Avenida promenade of shops and restaurants running parallel to a wide white-sand Caribbean beach.

Colorado’s high-alpine national park above Estes Park — crossed by Trail Ridge Road, the highest continuous paved road in the US, with glacier-carved valleys, elk, and the Continental Divide.


Costa Rica’s most popular national park near Quepos — white-sand beaches backed by rainforest, home to sloths and the endangered Central American squirrel monkey.

A clifftop Amalfi Coast town known as the ‘city of music’ — the gardens of 13th-century Villa Rufolo and Villa Cimbrone’s Terrace of Infinity, home to the summer Ravello Festival.

The compact heart of Iceland’s capital — the shopping and nightlife of Laugavegur, the basalt-inspired Hallgrímskirkja church, and whale-watching boats at the Old Harbour.

A fairy-tale half-timbered town in the UNESCO-listed Upper Middle Rhine Valley — a well-preserved medieval old town below the hilltop ruins of 12th-century Stahleck Castle.