Helena Kardová
A cross-country journey on the Comfortjet – Ceske Drahy’s latest high-speed, long-distance train
About the ComfortjetProvenance: Ostrava, Czech RepublicPrice: €37mKey route: 850kmTop speed: 230km/hCapacity: 555 people It’s a frosty morning at Prague’s Hlavni Nadrazi, the city’s main station, where passengers are awaiting the arrival of the Comfortjet.…
Monocle preview: December/January 2025/2026 issue
With handy insights from the past year and a view of what’s to come in 2026, our bumper winter edition is packed with reports, ideas and long reads to savour.
See inside The Monocle Book of Designers on Sofas
From Bjarke Ingels’ harbour-inspired Brick to Naoto Fukasawa’s craned-in Hiroshima, The Monocle Book of Designers on Sofas – available to buy now – reveals how 50 of the world’s top architects and designers sit, think…
Pillars of the community
In front of a crowd of thousands, Catalonians of all ages team up to construct complex human towers or castells, a powerful display of regional identity, unity and fun. We report on this feat…
Village life in Spain
While cities such as Barcelona grapple with a mounting number of visitors, rural regions across the country have been facing depopulation for many decades. But the tide might be turning, as many Spaniards yearn…
Syria, from the ground up
Just months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria is rebuilding – both its institutions and its battered cities. For Monocle’s April issue, our Istanbul correspondent Hannah Lucinda Smith joins a flight from Istanbul…
The secret to putting on perfume
In our ‘Secret to...’ series we look at the best way to wear a fragrance with Frances Shoemack, founder of Abel perfumes.
Aviation updates: Greenland opens for business while South Korea spends big on defence
The global airborne ambitions that are cleared for takeoff.
Singapore: Adventures in craft
Let us introduce you to ten makers who bring craft to life by developing cultural dialogues and adding new twists to traditional practices. Each of their compelling stories cements Singapore’s position at the centre…
