Once a woebegone district characterised by criminal activity and crumbling architecture, Getsemani is undergoing a 21st-century renaissance.

BBC: A renaissance beyond Cartagena��s historic walls

This is not the Tuscany of Renaissance masterpieces and grand classical architecture--it's not even an extension of the cosmopolitan, Anglo- infiltrated countryside the English like to call Chiantishire--but perhaps a few days' diversion from all that, a place kept true to its roots partly by being overlooked.

FORBES: The Other Tuscany

With its stunning Renaissance art and architecture on view in well-proportioned squares and in world-class museums, there is a sense of elegance and permanence that helps root all who live here.

BBC: Living in: Florence

Western cities like Lviv were able to preserve some gothic and renaissance architecture, while most cities in the East ended up giving in to the Soviet-era simplistic and functional style.

FORBES: Language As A Weapon of Mass Distraction

To the winners go the spoils: Histories of early 20th-century American art and architecture were written by modernist proponents who criticized the achievements of the American Renaissance and City Beautiful designers or ignored them altogether.

WSJ: An American Renaissance Gem