Trips start in Hanoi, where guests explore the city's famed markets, colonial architecture, historical sites and French-influenced restaurants.
The capital of the state, also called Guanajuato, has long been admired for its rich history and colonial architecture.
Vientiane, as I had heard, was beautiful and romantic ten years ago, a mix of French Colonial architecture and temples with quiet, leafy streets.
Surrounded by 500-year-old fortress walls, the Centro Historico is a Unesco World Heritage Site, with Spanish colonial architecture, internationally branded luxury hotels and obvious traveller appeal.
San Miguel, located about 300km north of Mexico City, attracts US retirees, hippies, snowbirds, artists, painters and sculptors to its spicy-coloured, 17th- and 18th-century Colonial architecture and temperate climate.
Often referred to as the jewel of the Caribbean for its grandiose colonial architecture, blue waters and sun drenched squares, Cartagena in Colombia combines old school elegance with a vibrant Latin soul.
That skyline also attests to Hong Kong's rapacious appetite for the new: Few examples of traditional Chinese or more recent colonial architecture stand outside of museums, while contemporary works by Norman Foster and I.
The capital Willemstad, settled in 1634, is the financial and commercial centre of life on the island, as well as a Unesco World Heritage Site, thanks to its well-preserved, cotton-candy-coloured Dutch Colonial architecture and buildings like the Mikve Israel Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in use in the Western Hemisphere.
The last was completed in the 1930s, a time of great interest in American Colonial revival architecture.
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Colonial era architecture and relics can be found across the country but the nation has also preserved much of its African cultural heritage, making for an interesting and diverse mix of old and new.
Tourism in Kolkata has potential, given the glorious colonial-era architecture, plenty of culture and an alluring nightlife.
But we can also take a week to rent a car and make a less-relaxing effort to explore one island, driving from end to end, seeking out colonial-period architecture and native Taino cultural remnants, or sampling local cuisines, searching for differences in regional preferences within each island.
These were originally done in two distinct styles of early Santa Barbara architecture, California Craftsman and Spanish Colonial Revival, and Orient-Express worked closely with the Historic Landmarks Commission to refurbish them in accordance with historical regulations and in an environmentally sensitive way, while offering guests with every modern convenience and luxury.
Its yellow-washed, green-shuttered, colonial-era buildings and angular, post-independence "new Khmer" architecture were both, rightly, renowned.
Mexico and Peru, with their rich heritage of pre-hispanic architecture, have long had an eye on the past, and are zealous in preserving their Spanish colonial towns.
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