Lamborghini: The Raging Bull’s Roar
The legend begins 1963 marked the birth of Lamborghini. On May 7th, in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Ferruccio Lamborghini founded Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. to build a different kind of luxury sports car. He came from a successful background in tractor manufacturing with Lamborghini Trattori, and his move into cars was personal: he wanted high-performance machines more refined, powerful, and comfortable than anything on the market. The famous story goes that he complained to Enzo Ferrari about clutch issues in his Ferrari 250 GT, then discovered it was the same component used in his tractors, sold at a fraction of the price. Ferrari [...]
Milan’s Golden Quadrangle of Luxury
The Quadrilatero d’Oro (Golden Quadrangle) of Milan is the city’s historic shopping and hotel district, a grid of streets lined with modernist and renaissance buildings between Via Montenapoleone and Via della Spiga. This guide covers the luxury hotels that define the area. […]
Chic Stays: Paris’ Champs-Élysées Elite
The Palace hotels of the Champs-Élysées Paris holds 12 of France’s 31 official “Palace” designated hotels, a government distinction created in 2010 that sits above the standard 5-star rating. This guide covers the Palace hotels along and near the Champs-Élysées. […]
Calistoga’s Exclusive Hot Springs Hideaways
Calistoga’s hot springs hotels Hot springs resorts have a rustic reputation. Calistoga, in Napa Valley, reads differently: a group of designed luxury hotels and resorts built around natural geysers and hot springs fed by volcanic activity. The mineral-rich waters have drawn wellness seekers since the Wappo tribe first found them thousands of years ago. […]
Gulfstream: Sky-High Luxury Since 1958
The legend begins In 1930, in a converted automobile showroom on Long Island, New York, Leroy "Roy" Grumman and Leon Swirbul founded what would become one of America's most storied aviation companies. Grumman Aircraft Engineering Company started out in military aviation and became a leading manufacturer of naval aircraft during World War II, producing fighters like the F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat. In the post-war boom of the late 1950s, Grumman saw an opening in civilian aviation. In 1957, engineers at the Bethpage, New York facility finished the design for a turboprop aircraft built specifically for business travel. On August [...]
Whispers of the Wild: Chimpanzee Trekking in Kibale
Kibale National Park Kibale National Park in Uganda holds one of the largest chimpanzee populations in the country, tracked daily by rangers from the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA). […]
Jaeger-LeCoultre: Mastery of Time Since 1833
The legend begins In the remote Vallée de Joux, Switzerland, in 1833, Antoine LeCoultre set up a workshop that would change the practice of horology. Born in 1803 as a 10th-generation LeCoultre in the region, Antoine learned metallurgy from his father, then turned to watchmaking after inventing a new pinion-cutting machine. This isolated valley, between the Jura Mountains at over 1,000 meters altitude, had long been home to skilled artisans who took up precision crafts during the harsh winters. Antoine set up his atelier in Le Sentier, where the company remains headquartered to this day. […]
Exploring Argentina’s Malbec Heartland
Argentine Malbec beyond Mendoza Argentina is the country most associated with Malbec, but production varies more across regions than most people realize. […]
Krug Champagne: The Art of Perfection Since 1843
The legend begins In 1843, in Reims, Joseph Krug founded a champagne house built around a specific idea about quality. Born Johann-Joseph Krug in 1800, the son of a butcher in Mainz on the Rhine, he had dropped his first name and left his hometown in 1824. By 1834 he was in Paris, and soon joined Champagne Jacquesson in Châlons-sur-Marne, where he spent eight years learning about composition and taste. In 1841 he married Emma-Anne Jaunay, the daughter of a French hotelier based in London, and their son Paul was born the following year. After a year of negotiations, Krug [...]
Cappadocia’s Finest Cave Hotels
Luxury hotels in Cappadocia Luxury travel in Cappadocia tends to be pictured as cave hotels with rustic charm. Those accommodations are a draw, but Göreme and Uchisar also host a group of luxury hotels built into the same landscape. These properties pair the region’s history with modern hotel standards, well beyond a basic cave stay. […]
The legend begins 1963 marked the birth of Lamborghini. On May 7th, in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Ferruccio Lamborghini founded Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. to build a different kind of luxury sports car. [...]
The Quadrilatero d’Oro (Golden Quadrangle) of Milan is the city’s historic shopping and hotel district, a grid of streets lined with modernist and renaissance buildings between Via Montenapoleone and Via [...]
The Palace hotels of the Champs-Élysées Paris holds 12 of France’s 31 official “Palace” designated hotels, a government distinction created in 2010 that sits above the standard 5-star rating. This [...]
Calistoga’s hot springs hotels Hot springs resorts have a rustic reputation. Calistoga, in Napa Valley, reads differently: a group of designed luxury hotels and resorts built around natural geysers and [...]
The legend begins In 1930, in a converted automobile showroom on Long Island, New York, Leroy "Roy" Grumman and Leon Swirbul founded what would become one of America's most storied [...]
Kibale National Park Kibale National Park in Uganda holds one of the largest chimpanzee populations in the country, tracked daily by rangers from the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA). […]
The legend begins In the remote Vallée de Joux, Switzerland, in 1833, Antoine LeCoultre set up a workshop that would change the practice of horology. Born in 1803 as a [...]
Argentine Malbec beyond Mendoza Argentina is the country most associated with Malbec, but production varies more across regions than most people realize. […]
The legend begins In 1843, in Reims, Joseph Krug founded a champagne house built around a specific idea about quality. Born Johann-Joseph Krug in 1800, the son of a butcher [...]
Luxury hotels in Cappadocia Luxury travel in Cappadocia tends to be pictured as cave hotels with rustic charm. Those accommodations are a draw, but Göreme and Uchisar also host a [...]
