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18 results for Madeira

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Madeira, Portugal

9 May 2019

Best-in-collection swimwear, accessories and relaxed seaside attire of brilliant colour and cut.

C 2018

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Great awakening

13 September 2018

The Portuguese island is shaking off its sleepy reputation to show that it’s much more than a sedate stop-off for cruising pensioners in search of a glass of fortified wine.

Radio

The Menu - Food Neighbourhoods 107: Funchal, Old Town

23 October 2018

Monocle’s Carlota Rebelo takes us to her hometown of Funchal, Madeira, where the Old Town neighbourhood is a popular hangout for locals.

Radio

Monocle on Design - At home with Nini Andrade Silva

6 January 2015

We meet one of Portugal’s most sought after interior designers Nini Andrade Silva on her home island of Madeira, hear from Portland Oregon where a postmodernist monument has just been spared the wrecking ball and head to…

Radio

The Late Edition - Thursday 30 March

30 March 2017

We ask whether the UK is using its security standing in Europe as a Brexit bargaining chip, learn what US secretary of state Rex Tillerson discussed in Ankara today and discuss Taiwan’s relationship with both China and the…

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Atlantic wings

17 May 2011

From running mercy flights for volcano survivors in the 1950s to transporting today’s Portuguese football stars, the Azores’ airline SATA has soared above its island birthplace.

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Sharpen up

25 May 2023

By listening to its customers, pencil-maker Viarco has secured global fans and healthy profits.

L 2018

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Editor’s letter

13 September 2018

We’re going to places we've never been before. Who’s with us?

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Down to a vine art

22 March 2018

The windswept hillsides and volcanic slopes of Tenerife are once again flourishing, as growers master the harsh terrain and harness the potential of the igneous island’s age-old vines.

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Fashion

16 February 2012

Latest discoveries in clothes, footwear and retail ventures.

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Politics

22 March 2018

A sea change in Portugal, Poland is on reputation watch, former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili eyes a political comeback in Ukraine and we meet Hisyar Ozsoy of the pro-Kurd Peoples’ Democratic party.

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Business

18 August 2014

A former Portuguese sewing-machine factory that is now a business centre, a line of jeans made by ex-offenders and a new fleet of picnic boats in Copenhagen.

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Eastern promise

15 August 2013

Japanese whisky giants are world famous but it’s an upstart distillery, Chichibu, that’s winning all the awards and showing how to blend Scottish know-how with local ingredients.

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Does business coaching work?

29 September 2022

Executive coaching has evolved from Jordan Belfort-style barking and chest-thumping into meditative mindfulness, helping even the most harried of managers to handle their workload and teams. Useful professional tool or…

L 2019

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For the love of cod

28 June 2019

Forget those health-food fads and staying abstemious. Instead cook up a storm with some comfort food, Iberian style.

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Reportage 1. Portugal’s periscope

21 July 2016

Trish Lorenz reporting from Portugal: The Portuguese navy is one of the oldest in the world, with a history that ebbs and flows back to the 12th century. As the tides have changed so have its responsibilities, with clever…