A Stay at Belvedere Mykonos

Caity Stroup, Querido’s Managing Director, Takes Us on Her Journey Through Mykonos We were barely ten minutes out of the airport when the vacation feeling kicked in. Bougainvillea over the…

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A Fourth on the Upper East Side

Photo Credit Nico Schinco A Local for the Fourth We asked our New York Queridos to tell us what to do this weekend. With the country turning 250 and the...

A Summer of Festivals

Summer does not arrive by the calendar. It arrives by feast day. Somewhere a town lights a fire, grills a fish, carries a saint through the streets, and that is...

Beaverbrook, By the Glass

Beaverbrook sits in Surrey Hills, an English country estate with a wine list that travels far beyond it. 444 bottles. 254 wines by the glass. The number is not the...

One Week, Two Coasts, Three Hotels in Spain

Our Creative Director, Riyad, traveled from Formentera to the Golden Mile. He visited three hotels on two coasts in one week, finding a subtle connection between them. Here are his...

A Day in the Life of Lucie Weill at Lily Of The Valley

Lily of the Valley sits high above the coastline of La Croix-Valmer, overlooking the wild beauty of Gigaro Beach on the Saint-Tropez peninsula. It is a place that feels quietly...

Mariella Avino’s Pink Closet Is the Best-Kept Secret on the Amalfi Coast

Mariella Avino, Owner of Palazzo Avino, on vintage Valentino, the eternal appeal of polka dots, and building a boutique with deep love for beauty. Tucked inside Palazzo Avino, the legendary...

Designing Longevity, The SHA Way

The Hotel That Wants You to Live Longer SHA Spain has been on every “world’s best wellness hotel” list since it opened in 2008, but something has shifted. The recent...

A Suite That Became an Artist’s Studio

Rome has always attracted artists. Casa Monti just gave one the keys. Casa Monti is one of those hotels that already feels like stepping into someone’s creative world. 36 keys...

Sublime Comporta’s New Extension Is Everything We Wanted It to Be

Comporta Has Always Been Europe’s Best-Kept Secret. Sublime Just Made It Harder to Keep. When people ask us where to go in Europe and they want something that feels genuinely...

Porto Cervo Cicerone

Where to stay, eat, and explore in Porto Cervo Sardinia doesn’t feel like the rest of Italy. The landscape is older and wilder with granite cliffs, maquis scrub, water that...

Forte dei Marmi Cicerone

Where to Stay, Eat, and Experience the best of Tuscany’s best kept secret There’s a particular kind of Italian that summers in Forte dei Marmi. They’ve been coming since childhood,...

Inside Puente Romano’s Villa Collection

The Stay That Has It All You booked the beautiful villa, you had the private pool, the garden, the mornings to yourself — and it was lovely. But something was...