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Full of beans

17 March 2011

As gatekeeper of illycaffè, one of Italy’s most famous coffee brands, CEO Andrea Illy faces some intense competition. He tells Monocle how he has kept the company not just above water, but thriving.

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Return to splendour

17 February 2014

The appeal of this affable port city is rising, especially in the revitalised Cavana quarter.

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David Plaisant reporting from Trieste: The ever-present Bora wind isn’t the only thing that provides an air of frisson in this intriguing city: it’s also down to its complex history and fascinating geography.

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Cinema paradiso

15 March 2016

With its central-European soul and Italian accent, this Adriatic port could easily have an identity crisis. Trieste, however, is used to occupying the space between one culture and another, as its unique film festival…

Radio

Monocle on Culture - Sundance & Trieste Film Festivals

1 February 2016

We round up two of last week’s film festivals that really set the pace for the rest of the year: Sundance and Trieste. While the mainstream is focused on the run up to the red carpet of the Oscars, the rest of the film…

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Harboured dreams

17 October 2008

Italy’s Trieste, population 208,552, has ambitions to return to its former glory as a wealthy trading port, luring start-ups with its enviable location and high quality of life (you’re more likely to live to 100 in Trieste…

Radio

The Urbanist - Tall Stories 114: Il Quadrilatero

9 July 2018

This week we’re in the Adriatic port city of Trieste, where Monocle’s Alexei Korolyov has been to visit a brutalist council home with a troubled history.

Radio

The Concierge - The Maldives, Delphi and Vienna’s revamped train route

28 June 2023

This week, Sean Muir, director of rooms at Kimpton Saint George hotel in Toronto, shines a light on summer in the Canadian city and Monocle’s Alexei Korolyov takes the revamped rail route from Vienna to the Italian port…

Monocle Minute

Coffee crisis

3 October 2015

Coffee’s popularity is no secret but one discussion that emerged from last week’s Global Coffee Forum in Milan is that demand for the bean may soon outstrip supply. According to Bloomberg, global coffee consumption will…

Monocle Minute

The empire strikes back

9 September 2015

Vienna is a city built to be the capital of a vast empire, linking people all the way from the Balkans to Trieste. Today Austria may look purely Germanic but its Slavic ties and Jewish roots are still there. And with all…

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Sign language

17 February 2014

As a country renowned for taste and style it is little surprise that Italy’s brands have such a strong aesthetic identity. Monocle delves into the nation’s visual history and charts its most striking logos.

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Expo: Neighbourhoods

22 June 2016

Three busy cities that wouldn’t be the same without serene pockets of peace and quiet.

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Media

17 February 2014

A new magazine for chefs, the Italian encyclopaedia of everywhere and the changing fortunes of II Globo

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Riccardo Illy

17 March 2007

Riccardo Illy is president of both Illy, his family’s coffee-making company, and the Assembly of European Regions, created in 1985 to give voice to the continent’s provinces and generate a forum for mutual cultural insight…

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La bella vita

17 February 2014

OK, so they might have creaking transport systems, crime problems and high unemployment, but Italian cities also have an irresistible charm. Here’s where we’d live.

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Deli vision

17 February 2008

In 1948, Francesco Armandola opened the doors to his eponymous delicatessen in Milan. Located in via della Spiga, it catered to a clientele eager to forget the lean war years. Since 2005, his son Giorgio has been in charge…