Secretly Cool Discovery of Graz, Austria

Graz. It’s not the most inspiring of names, now is it? Short, squat, and sounding more than a little like the French word for fat, it lacks the flourish that sweeps Barcelona and Vienna into the linguistic catwalk of European city names. But names can be deceiving. Graz: A UNESCO City of Design Not since my trip to Nuremberg has my idea of a place matched up so poorly with the reality that I found.