For the adventure seekers and first-movers among us, Miavana is a destination like no other. Nestled on the pristine shores of a far-flung private island off the coast of Madagascar, this blissed out haven is surrounded by 14,000 hectares of marine reserve and beckoning to be discovered.
For 50 years, the De Santis family has owned Lake Como’s iconic Grand Hotel Tremezzo. Now the jewel in the crown is the family’s latest passion project,Passalacqua, which has been hailed theWorld’s Best Hotel. It’s no surprise once you’ve met daughter, Valentina; her unstuffy and genuinely welcoming take on Italian family hospitality shines in everything she does, which has us dreaming of life by the lake...
As Creative Director of the iconic Italian hotel group, Il Pellicano, Marie-Louise Sciò oozes Italy’s la dolce vita. Growing up in a Slim Aarons photograph at her family’s legendary hotel, Il Pellicano, on the Tuscan coast, Marie-Louise is now at the helm of the much-adored hotels. Here we take a few moments to be whisked away to bella Italia and talk travel in a post-pandemic world.
When Guy Laliberté, cofounder of Cirque du Soleil, decided he wanted a piece of paradise to call his own, he went straight to the Pacific. The billionaire businessman, entrepreneur and astronaut scoured the remote expanses of French Polynesia for an entire decade, searching for that singular unspoiled and untamed place. Finally he settled on Nukutepipi, a pristine haven for rare birds and flora, complete with a primary forest laced with powder-white sand and a serene lagoon protected by a thriving coral reef.
