They have good reason to do both at the moment, with two of this year's biggest and most popular exhibitions in the capital featuring northern artists.
Nashville (1975) was a panoramic view of America's country music capital, featuring two dozen lead characters - singers, politicians, media people, hangers-on.
A Parisian theme park: in February Wanda said it would plough €3bn into EuropaCity, an 80-acre entertainment complex near the French capital featuring nightclubs, restaurants, concert halls and a "snow park".
Poland officially began commemorations of the bicentennial of the birth of its most celebrated composer, Fr?ric Chopin, on Friday with a ceremony at his birthplace, Zelazowa Wola, about 50 miles west of Warsaw, and a concert in the capital featuring the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Kastro, a past capital featuring medieval fortifications, is, perhaps, the island's most picturesque village, resembling a living museum and overlooking the tiny cove of Seralia with its tiny fish restaurants.
Like earlier cities, the Song capitals featured wide, open avenues to create fire breaks.
But Azonto is one of the few to make the leap north to western capitals, featuring on the clubbing scene from Amsterdam to Paris.
Lima has one of the worst public-transport systems among Latin American capitals, featuring tens of thousands of privately owned minibuses.
James P. Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, also joins CNN to talk about jobs, and Bloomberg's "Political Capital" features Richard Trumka, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
Under Mr. Saakashvili, Georgia has been the United States' staunchest ally in the post-Soviet orbit, and its capital features a statue of Mr. Reagan and a street named after former President George W. Bush.
