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Cities

Twenty-Six Cities.
One Year.

Each city chosen not for fame but for what it knows. What it still practices. What it has refused to forget.

Season One — Europe
March – May 2026
01
Valencia
Spain
Fire, creation, and the art of destroying beauty on purpose
02
Barcelona
Spain
Architecture as argument, food as philosophy
03
Lisbon
Portugal
The city built on longing — and still not over it
04
Seville
Spain
Where tradition refuses to become a museum piece
Season One — Mediterranean & Beyond
June – August 2026
05
Athens
Greece
The weight of inventing everything
06
Istanbul
Turkey
The city that has always been two things at once
07
Budapest
Hungary
Beauty that survived everything thrown at it
08
Dubrovnik
Croatia
A walled city that refused to disappear
09
Palermo
Italy
Where every civilization left something behind
10
Florence
Italy
What it costs to live in the shadow of genius
Season One — Asia
September – October 2026
11
Bangkok
Thailand
Chaos as art form, spirit as daily practice
12
Kyoto
Japan
The discipline of doing one thing perfectly
13
Chiang Mai
Thailand
The lanterns, the temples, the life beside the river
14
Bali
Indonesia
Where the sacred and the beautiful are the same thing
Season One — The Americas
November – December 2026
15
Buenos Aires
Argentina
European grandeur, Latin soul, permanent melancholy
16
Mexico City
Mexico
Twenty million people and every one of them living fully
17
New Orleans
United States
The American city that refuses to be American
18
Cartagena
Colombia
The walled city García Márquez never quite left

Episodes 19 through 26 will be announced as the season progresses. The world is large. The list keeps growing.

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