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Affairs

The opener

Huge flags and enormous skyscrapers, furry babies and political bedding – we round up some global goings-on.

  • Issue #146
  • 7 min read
The opener
Travel and restaurants

See here

A new opening in New Orleans, a former mayor’s home in Amsterdam, plenty of hotel openings, independent cinemas and a top shop in Lisbon. Here are our monthly travel tips.

  • Issue #144
  • 1 min read
See here
Architecture

Brick by brick

Italy's architectural treasures span millennia, from Gio Ponti's geometric cathedral in Taranto to ancient Roman forums and Palladio's influential Renaissance churches that shaped international design.

  • Issue #142
  • 6 min read
Brick by brick
Arts

Making a scene

Italy's cultural landscape extends far beyond Renaissance masterpieces, encompassing innovative contemporary spaces housed in gilded foundations, former power plants and Hadid-designed mountain bunkers.

  • Issue #142
  • 8 min read
Making a scene
Retail

Top of the shops

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.

  • Issue #142
  • 6 min read
Top of the shops
Architecture

Call the tune

Whether you have a song up your sleeve or ambitions to host a podcast, time in a recording studio is a sound investment.

  • Issue #140
  • 4 min read
Three people posing with vintage wooden speakers in a studio setting.
Travel and restaurants

Critical mass

Restaurant openings can buoy neighbourhoods and set a city’s culinary agenda. We asked our favourite food writers for the inside scoop on the launches to look out for in the year ahead.

  • The Forecast #10
  • 7 min read
Critical mass
Diplomacy

Salut, Italie!

Franco-Italian ties are unusually frosty. How far can drinks, diplomacy and a dancefloor go towards warming relations?

  • Issue #126
  • 11 min read
Two Italian carabinieri officers in formal dress uniforms looking upward at French embassy celebration
Affairs

Rome improvements

In the face of mismanagement, poor planning and terrible transport, we meet the heroes helping to fix the Italian capital.

  • Issue #124
  • 11 min read
Rome improvements

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