Spain’s Paradores de Turismo is a group of hotels with almost a century’s worth of hospitality expertise. Founded in 1928, it now encompasses 98 unique establishments across the country’s most stunning natural landscapes…
The historic city of Xi’an may be best known for its ancient walls and Terracotta Army but it’s becoming a global business hub too. Monocle takes a tour, visiting an industrial park where a high-speed railway is being…
The Swiss Natural History Museum
and its new home, the Nordic airport offering visitors a warm
welcome and a few fixes for Belgrade’s cycling infrastructure.
Spain’s Paradores de Turismo is a group of hotels with almost a century of hospitality expertise. Today many of its 98 unique establishments play key roles in revitalising the economic and social life of the less-populated…
Spain’s Paradores de Turismo is a group of hotels with almost a century of hospitality expertise. Today many of its 98 unique establishments play key roles in revitalising the economic and social life of the less-populated…
Do the Elgin Marbles belong in the British Museum, where they have been safely housed and displayed for more than 200 years – or are they stolen goods? Monocle’s expert panel discusses the repatriation of art in a time of…
In forensically researching the history of a site before he builds on it, prolific Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane likens his role to that of an archaeologist. We meet him to dig a little deeper.
On the day that Nabil and Zoe Debs welcomed the first guests to their historic home turned hotel, Arthaus, it was all but destroyed in the port explosion. Yet in rebuilding it all from the rubble, they cemented its place…
In Damascus, there are places that appear untouched by Syria’s civil war. But in cities such as Aleppo and Homs, the destruction is overwhelming. Among the rubble, people try to patch up homes and lives – and long for a…
Leave the summer hordes behind in favour of a toothsome flat-hunting tour around Greece’s ruin-strewn capital. Kolonaki and Psiri, two very different neighbourhoods, offer up some smart urban boltholes and investment opp…
Digital archives are no replacement for the real thing – it’s only in a private visit to a secret hoard that history, humanity and passion are let loose to inspire, inform and entertain again.
Italy’s cultural output is largely defined by the theatrical. After all, opera – that most melodramatic of art forms – is a very Italian affair. In ‘The Monocle Book of Italy’ we profile the very best of the country’s…