Notable for spectacular cliffs and gorges that shimmer golden in the sun, the Algarve is home to four of Portugal’s DOCs, which means plenty of good wine to complement the bounty of fish and seafood. Small wonder that the region attracts more than seven million annual visitors. … Read More
Often referred to as the “City of Festivals,” Montreal hosts no less than 100 annual multi-day festivals, with the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal holding the Guinness World Record as the world’s largest jazz festival with more than 2 million attendees. … Read More
For centuries, Sintra, located in the far west of the Iberian Peninsula, has been a muse for artists and architects, as well as royals and aristocrats, who have created a fabulous domain of parks, gardens, palaces, and castles that is unsurpassed as a center of 19th-century European Romantic architecture. … Read More
Beloved for its honey-colored stone villages set amidst an undulating verdant landscape, the Cotswolds is home to numerous stately homes and historic gardens, including the country house hotel The Lygon Arms. … Read More
Lisbon is the kind of city where the men’s room at Sky Bar atop Tivoli Avenida Liberdade is housed in a site-specific art installation of shipping containers piled atop the roof—with a vertiginous view overlooking the city’s fabled seven hills all the way down to the Tagus River. Water metaphors welcomed. … Read More
Ever since the early years of the Roman Empire, visitors have celebrated the sweetness of life in Bellagio, the fabled Italian resort known as the pearl of Lake Como.
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Nothing feels finer than to return to London and to rekindle your love affair with a city where, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson, no one has the time to be tired of life. … Read More
For decades, residents of New Orleans frequented a 1920s-era building with terrazzo floors and a 21-foot vaulted ceiling to pay their gas and electric bills—and today that building is a luxury hotel known as NOPSI, the acronym for New Orleans Public Service, Inc. whose manhole covers number in the thousands throughout The Big Easy. … Read More
