A windswept Atlantic port with 18th-century ramparts, a fish market and kitesurfing on the beach.
The live-music capital: SXSW, bats under the Congress bridge and breakfast tacos.
Graceland, Sun Studio where Elvis recorded, Beale Street blues and the Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel.
The Motown Museum, the Henry Ford, Art Deco skyscrapers and a comeback story.
Music City: the Grand Ole Opry, honky-tonks on Broadway and hot chicken.
The city where the wind is born: a white-sand beach, Art Nouveau streets and the abandoned Karosta naval prison.
A fishing town of pubs and trad sessions at the end of the Dingle Peninsula, the westernmost point of Europe.
Bach's church, the peaceful revolution of 1989 and the artists' halls of the old Spinnerei cotton mill.
Lively harbour city of music and pubs.
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