This city’s streets are filled with shops selling everything from Soviet-era furniture to Syrian chocolate that has been adopted as a Christmas treat by the locals. Here, we showcase the best of Budapest.
Moving somewhere compact needn’t mean closing the doors of professional or personal opportunity. Life in small cities can give you the best of metropolitan life, only with greater access to nature and a more relaxed pace…
Ten years after the death of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya faces numerous challenges – not to mention military standoffs – in its bid to become the Dubai of north Africa. Yet as Mary Fitzgerald, Monocle’s correspondent in the…
At a time when so much has been turned on its head, we’ve tweaked our annual urban Quality of Life Survey to consider the cities that are best placed to prosper post-pandemic. So here’s how metropolises from Vancouver to…
Be it a beach club in Stockholm, a design-led Athens retreat or a tasteful Mexican restoration, there are plenty of recent openings with bright futures. We round-up a few
of our favourites.
A launch in Kuala Lumpur, an art-filled guesthouse in Geneva, and an Austrian hotelier on the up – here is our selection of intriguing new places to lay your head.
Is it game over for stores, malls and high streets? Not according to these developers and place-makers who believe they have the formula that makes bricks-and-mortar retail work.
Whether on a whim or with years of preparation, quitting a job to follow your entrepreneurial ambitions is a bold move. Here we meet four enterprising originators who did just that and trace the stages of their businesses…
Fiona Wilson reporting from Wellington: With its isolated coastal location and stunning sea views, this might be the world’s windiest city but it’s not all hot air. The New Zealand capital is home to incomparable coffee,…