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The Essay Unknown Cities Episodes

    Holguin

    5/5 Travel editor Simon Calder recalls the small-scale delights of Holguin in Cuba.

    Asmara

    4/5 Michela Wrong on the Italianate buildings and futurist constructions in Asmara, Eritrea.

    Makhachkala

    3/5 Vanora Bennett on Makhachkala in Russia, which she describes as 'beyond the mountains'.

    Kunming

    2/5 Romesh Gunesekera on Kunming, considered to be unlike any other modern Chinese city.

    Hobart

    1/5 Nicholas Shakespeare on Hobart's convict and whaling past, and the story of a monkey.