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43 results for Trieste

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Meet the Writers - Andrew O’Hagan

19 May 2024

Award-winning Scottish author and editor at large at the ‘London Review of Books’, Andrew O’Hagan has spent the past decade working on his state-of-the-nation novel, ‘Caledonian Road’. Employing the traditions of Victorian…

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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…

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Let's dance

16 June 2023

We pick out 60 of our favourite summer tracks, from the most exciting French pop to songs that will keep you shimmying on the dance floor until the autumn.

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Back on track

27 April 2023

Launched in 1960 during a wave of postwar, pre-Olympics optimism in Rome, the ETR 252 train was the height of ambitious rail travel. Designed by leading architects, L’Arlecchino boasted jet-age levels of onboard luxury with…

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Affairs

19 January 2023

Andrew Mueller surveys the military hardware that will reshape modern warfare in the years to come.

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Small Fortune

17 November 2022

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…

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Plucky upstart

15 September 2022

While Croatia has experienced a tourism boom, its third-largest city has forged its own unique path, building on its coastal location and can-do attitude to welcome a wave of businesses – big and small.

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Espresso yourself

18 August 2022

Enterprising Sicilian roasters are embracing a changing climate by growing their own coffee beans.

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Wandering stars

25 March 2021

Italy is constantly on the move, by every mode of transport imaginable. There is a unifying theme however: elegant design and utility go hand in hand here like nowhere else, as evidenced by our book’s profiles of some of…

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Top of the shops

25 March 2021

From the merchants of the Middle Ages to today’s leading fashion brands and specialist shops, Italians have long excelled in the art of retail. We share some of our favourites.

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Time for a reboot

17 September 2020

From visionary aerospace companies to powerful boat-makers, Italy is home to a far-reaching crop of mobility players. We meet the transport-industry movers that are pioneering smarter and greener ways of travelling and…

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Defence

20 February 2020

A multi-ethnic memorial in Slovenia, India's new navy and Singapore’s growing air force.

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South facing

20 February 2020

How Graz marries world-class culture and architecture with a relaxed, Mediterranean vibe.

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Small packages

27 November 2019

Looking to escape the metropolis to downsize? Our global network of correspondents have come up with a definitive list of the world’s best small cities, which provide the right balance between opportunities for rich cult…

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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.

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Sleeping beauty

27 July 2017

Nolan Giles reporting from Semmering: A mountainside fin-de-siècle resort town in Austria is being reawakened from its slumber by new arrivals who come armed with a vision – and a paint brush.