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Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

The Museum The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is a historically preserved estate from the Gilded Age situated in the Biscayne Bay. This historic landmark is surrounded by ten acres of lush gardens, mangroves, and a rockland hammock. Museum visitors get to experience an impressive collection and architecture that provides a window into the past. James Deering James Deering was a wealthy businessman and socialite from Chicago who decided to build Vizcaya as a retreat from the midwestern winters. He purchased…

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Best Of The Best

The Best Chocolate in Florence

There’s something quintessentially Italian about adding a little bit of sweetness and indulgence to your day. The Florentines are masters at many things, and chocolate is is one of them. To find the best chocolate in Florence, the key is hitting the spots where bakers and chocolatiers know a little something about the art of balance. Perfecting the delicate equilibrium between textures and flavors is no easy feat, but these chocolate masters have managed to do just that. The Chocolate:…

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Travel Buzz

The Pendry Park City Arrives

What started out a few years ago as a cool design-hotel group (best known for its Baltimore location) has become a rapidly expanding player in the luxury market. Finally an upscale hotel has found the perfect intersection of design, boutique, and luxury. Here’s the buzz on the new Park City hotel location. The Details: It’s not just you: Hotels at all star classes have gotten expensive. Since when did $1,000/night not get you a luxury hotel? Well, since the past…

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Beauty & Wellness

A Luxury Wellness Retreat

For a place that is about hardcore medical treatments and integrative medicine, it sure is pretty. Pretty stunning, that is; the Spanish location of SHA Wellness is set right on the Mediterranean Sea. With programs that start at seven days, this is more than a surface-level detox. This luxury wellness retreat is all about a brand new you. It’s the perfect way to end a trip to Spain, after you indulge in culture and food in Madrid, and the summertime…

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Destinations + Hotels to Inspire You

Big Skies – The Montage Opens

Mila Grgas, Writer There’s nothing new about Montana being one of the most beautiful places in the country. But there is something new on the hotel scene, that finally brings a grande scale luxury option to Big Sky. Before you had to either rough it, or own in the billionaire club of Yellowstone. Today though, the Montage Big Sky Resort brings an option for the luxury masses, with its brand new lodge. Here’s the preview of the best luxury hotel…

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Celebrity Travel

Sarah Jessica Parker

Not only is she co-starring with husband Matthew Broderick in a Broadway show, but she also just brought back Sex and the City with the sequel And Just Like That. Sarah Jessica Parker has always been an inspiration; after all, who didn’t want to be Carrie on the original series? SJP and the gang are back, living the best life in NYC. The fashion is sweeter than ever. And the real co-star of the show, New York City, has never…

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Travel Buzz

The EDITION Reykjavik

If you’ve ever been to Iceland, you know it left much to be desired in terms of hotels. In fact, if there was a city whose sky-high prices had an inverse relationship to quality, Reykjavík was it. Until now, maybe, because the EDITION has landed — a luxury hotel in Reykjavik. Here’s the preview that may just inspire a trip. The Details: Just outside of Old Harbor Port, the 253-room Reykjavík luxury hotel is well within the city center. But…

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A Stunner of a Hotel in Greece

White Coast Pool Suites Mila Grgas, Writer We know you like beautiful pictures. We do too. So here’s your dose of wanderlust this week, even if it’s just to surf the hotel website for a few. You may know Milos as the Greek restaurant with those addictive zucchini chips. But the real Milos is an island in Greece. Yes, of course there’s also Mykonos and Santorini. Plus Crete, Paros and Antiparos — all fantastic places to visit over the summer…

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Destinations + Hotels to Inspire You

Unique Places in the Caribbean

Something Different You are a world traveler, and you know your stuff. You’ve danced on every table at Nikki Beach. Twice. You’re a regular on the circuit in Aspen. You’ve been there, done that. So where can you go, that’s still ultra luxurious but a little off-grid? A place where you won’t see everyone from the kids’ school, or run into the big boss? Well, we have four hotels in the Caribbean, to mix it up this winter. Because you…

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Road Trip

The New York Earth Room

Soho, Manhattan A little known room of dirt lies in one of the most trafficked areas of Manhattan. In Soho, above the designer stores, fancy cafes, and tourists crowded on cobblestone streets, is The New York Earth Room. The large room and adjacent gallery once used to be The Dia Art Foundation’s only exhibition space and office. But in 1977, Hiener Friedrich, the notorious art dealer and collector who is one of the founders of Dia, commissioned Walter De Maria…

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