Flowers in the rain

While New Zealand’s capital city might be best known for its cable car, Cuba Street and coffee, Wellington is home to another unexpected landmark that offers a window into the city’s past.

New Zealand is again under lockdown restrictions Wednesday after four COVID-19 infections were detected in Auckland, the South Pacific’s country’s biggest city. They are the first confirmed cases of community transmission of coronavirus in more than 100 days.

Auckland is the largest city in the country and a major center of international business, but in some ways seems like a less well-known destination than other cities of its size and caliber.