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Painting session on Grand Hotel Tremezzo's terrace overlooking Lake Como, with wooden easels, blank canvases and palette plates arranged on white tables, mountains visible across the water

Italy

Grand Hotel Tremezzo hosts lakeside painting beneath autumn skies

As the palazzo closes its doors for the season, a final gathering brought guests and easels to the water's edge. Wrapped in blankets against the chill, artists captured the shifting light and distant mountains of Lake Como.

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The Greenhouse interior with cream upholstered seating, tiered planted display, and large windows framing the grey waters of Lake Como under winter sky

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Villa d’Este opens The Greenhouse, its luminous lakeside garden room

Overlooking the mirror still waters of Lake Como, the hotel's new dining and gathering space weaves together candlelit plants, bespoke furnishings and the Alpine landscape beyond.

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Illuminated bar window at night with amber-toned lighting reflecting off bottles, a bartender visible through the glass framed by terracotta-coloured stone columns

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Bar Dandolo reopens in Venice’s restored Gothic splendour

Four Seasons has revived its 15th century bar in the heart of La Serenissima, where gilded ceilings and Venetian tradition meet the aperitivo hour.

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The SPA lounge at Orient Express Venezia with pale fluted walls, pale cream seating, dark marble backrests, exposed wooden beams overhead, and a classical relief sculpture on the wall

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Orient Express Venezia opens spa drawing on Venetian trading heritage

The SPA at Orient Express Venezia merges ancient bathing rituals with contemporary beauty expertise, drawing inspiration from Venice's centuries as a crossroads between East and West.

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Aerial view of Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como with the terrace restaurant and striped sun loungers on a floating platform on the turquoise lake, flanked by stone walls and surrounded by lush green hillside trees

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Lakeside dining with Italian grace at Mandarin Oriental

Co.Mo Bar & Bistrot brings seasonal Italian cuisine to the water's edge at Mandarin Oriental Lago di Como, where aperitivos and leisurely meals unfold against the shifting light of Lake Como.

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Cova Advent Calendar in deep red with gold embossing, showing numbered drawer doors 3, 15 and 18 visible, each concealing a chocolate wrapped in white paper with gold Cova branding and tied with cellophane

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Cova’s Advent Calendar transforms December into daily confectionery discovery

The storied Milanese patisserie marks the countdown to Christmas with an elegant red box containing twenty four individually wrapped chocolates, each day revealing a small moment of indulgence.

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A bartender in a cream double breasted linen jacket with a black tie holds a martini at a bar of black Nero Marquina marble, framed by stone columns with gold trim and a bronze Bvlgari shield mounted above

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The Bvlgari Lounge pours martinis with Roman elegance

At the Bvlgari Hotel Roma, the cocktail hour arrives dressed in marble and gold, where a bartender in cream linen commands a counter of Nero Marquina stone. This is martini o'clock in the Eternal City.

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A red Caffarelli advent calendar with gold detailing, numbered compartments, and festive Christmas imagery including a decorated tree, rocking horse, wreaths and stars, displayed against a cream-coloured botanical wallpaper with winter foliage and decorative elements

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La Capannina Capri’s Caffarelli advent calendar marks the season

The celebrated Capri restaurant has partnered with Caffarelli, the storied Torino chocolate house, to create a festive advent calendar that combines Italian confectionery heritage with the essence of the island.

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Interior of Ristorante Local showing a dining room with terracotta floor embedded with thousands of pieces of Murano glass, exposed timber ceiling beams, grey walls, wooden furniture, a backlit bar glowing in warm amber, and tall glass partitions dividing the space, with large windows overlooking Venice

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Murano’s glassmakers guide every step through Venice’s newest restaurant

At Ristorante Local in Venice, the city reveals itself from the ground up. Four thousand pieces of Murano glass are embedded in the floor, transforming the dining room into a meditation on Venetian craft and place.

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A bartender's hands work with precision over an omakase counter, pouring a cocktail with careful technique as condensation glistens on the glass.

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Mandarin Oriental Milan unveils SHIKI, a seasonal omakase cocktail experience

Winter arrives with FUYU, the first chapter of an elegant new omakase cocktail series inspired by Japan's shifting seasons. At Mandarin Oriental Milan, mixologists craft drinks and oriental bites that distil the quiet refinement of the coldest months.

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