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Revel in the details

25 January 2024

Swiss village Monte is living proof that minor urban interventions can be a major boost to quality of life.

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In Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, multinational companies are setting up shop, ports are being built to serve the forestry industry and property is going cheap. All the city needs now is a new generation of global…

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Mont Dieu

21 February 2019

The only French icon for whom a craggy aspect is an asset, Mont Blanc stands alone as Europe’s mightiest mountain. To separate the beauty from the treachery, Monocle straps on its crampons and meets the locals who live in…

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The Monocle Weekly - Marisa Monte

30 May 2022

In this special interview, Monocle 24’s senior correspondent Fernando Augusto Pacheco speaks to Brazilian singer Marisa Monte about her forthcoming European tour.

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Staying afloat

8 December 2016

Despite a slowdown in the yachting industry, top shipyards and designers are feeling quietly confident.

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A real show-stopper

17 May 2012

Bouchon is a welcome addition to the Monaco restaurant scene, serving French classics often prepared at the table in front of diners.

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High minded

16 November 2017

Perched above the clouds, tiny San Marino has no airport or railway station but it does have 17 centuries of national history. With its bird’s-eye view of the world, its aloof attitude to foreign affairs is understandable…

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Meet the photographers: Alexandre Guirkinger

16 June 2022

Mont Blanc is one the world’s most famous mountains – and its deadliest. We asked French photographer Alexandre Guirkinger to create a portrait of this mountain and the people who dwell in its powerful shadow. In our latest…

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Modern times

15 August 2013

A slice of US-style modernism deep in the heart of the Caribbean, Puerto Rico’s El Monte provokes an almost messianic zeal among its adherents. To them, El Monte is not simply a home but an experiment in how to live.

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The Urbanist - Tall Stories 241: Monte Testaccio, Rome

25 January 2021

We look to an ancient Roman waste-management technique that has permanently shaped the city’s topography.

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The Urbanist - Tall Stories 271: Monte Amiata housing complex, Milan

23 August 2021

Monocle’s Ivan Carvalho visits a postwar apartment complex from the 1960s that remains a thriving mini-city today.

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Small but perfectly formed

14 May 2015

People have moved back to urban centres and we no longer do a ‘weekly shop’, which has prompted a surprising revival: the corner shop.

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Monocle on Culture - The sound of summer

12 July 2021

Fernando Augusto Pacheco and Georgie Rogers join Robert Bound to round up some of the best summer album releases by the likes of Brazilian Marisa Monte, South African star Muzi and Canadian songwriter Martha Wainwright.

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The Late Edition - Wednesday 5 September

5 September 2018

Daniella Peled and Stephen Dalziel discuss the latest on the UK Novichok attack, take a look at our rating culture and explain why France is imposing a daily cap on Mont Blanc.

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The Late Edition, episode 105

23 March 2012

Why women close to President Assad face EU travel bans, we look at luxury Chinese alcohol brands, and Santiago Rodríguez Tarditi reports from Monte Carlo.

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Net profit

17 June 2007

Since 2000 the Masters Series Hamburg has been held at the Rothenbaum Tennis Centre in Hamburg. Besides Hamburg, the Masters Series travels to Cincinnati, Paris, Indian Wells, Madrid, Miami, Rome, Monte Carlo and Montréal…