We take a grand tour of an age-old favourite; the Austrian capital combines regal grandeur with a new-found finesse in everything from culture to food, art and design.
Mercado do Bolhão, Porto’s much-loved open-air food market, celebrates its centenary this year – a feat that is largely down to its charismatic stallholders.
Once a workers’ district, the Ehrenfeld neighbourhood in Köln is luring a multi-cultural mix of families and creatives with its competitive housing prices and well- preserved architecture.
The best quality of life in Cairo is not to be found in its glitzy but homogeneous satellite towns but in the old-fashioned charm of El Korba. Founded early last century by a Belgian baron, it combines Islamic and Art-Deco…
Running magazines are everywhere but few of them put long-form journalism before tips and product reviews. Runner Yuito Ueda has set out to change that with a periodical paced for the more thoughtful pavement pounder.
Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, aka French ambient electro band Air, talk to Monocle about their working life, from a reluctance to dance on stage and their inner maths geeks to finding studio voodoo power.
The first thing that many of us will want to do this summer is put on our dancing shoes and boogie the night away. And Soichi Terada is intent on providing the soundtrack.
For the past three years, people travelling on the E4 motorway from Helsingborg to Haparanda have been following the construction of Dragon Gate with wonder. Why on earth would someone build a Chinese cultural centre and…
Katrin Jakobsdottir is a rare thing: a scandal-free, left-wing prime minister who believes in compromise. She takes a break to spread the word about Iceland’s economic success.
What makes a city a great place to do business in? How important are parks for a lunchtime run and clean air to breathe? Or is it more about wi-fi access and corporate taxes? Monocle asks five corporate leaders where they…
The city of Trabzon in northeastern Turkey sits where mountainous terrain meets the Black Sea and while its tough-living population is fiercely patriotic, not all agree on the region’s character. So just what does it mean…
It’s probably a safe bet that you know all about the product you’re launching but forming a firm that’s destined to thrive requires additional focus.
Three business leaders share
the key lessons they learnt
on the route…
Anne Urbauer on how Germany’s politicians have discovered that there’s a fine line between looking good and appearing too cool when it comes to winning votes.