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      An insider guide to Singapore’s regional fine dining scene

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      My top 10: Jan Dalley’s guide to the Prado museum in Madrid

      As part of a new FT Globetrotter series celebrating the world’s permanent collections, the FT’s arts editor reveals her favourite works to seek out in this great — and at times overwhelming — Spanish institution

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      Jamie Oliver’s favourite London haunts

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      Vinyl cut: Copenhagen’s coolest record shops

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      An ode to the Roman pine

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      Five of Vancouver’s best ‘sea to sky’ adventures

      From zipping over waterways to soaring towards the clouds, here are a few of the most fun and exhilarating ways to take in the city’s landscape

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      Hidden depths: a guide to Milan’s most inventive interiors

      Step into spaces where some of Italy’s greatest architects and designers — as well as Wes Anderson — let their imagination run wild

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      Memo from Madrid: tastes of the real capital at a top tapas festival

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      Parlez-vous Parisian? How to speak like a local in the French capital

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      Meet Miami’s most exciting chefs

      The trailblazers making the Magic City a go-to culinary destination and whose restaurants are the new greats

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      The best new hotels in Rome

      An old convent, the former home of Donizetti and an eco-wellness urban resort are among the Eternal City’s most exciting places to stay this season

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      FT GlobetrotterThe best new hotels in Rome
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      The jewellery house’s long-awaited hometown opening is all marble-clad, €1,900-a-night splendour on a storied square dedicated to Augustus

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      The Rome Edition: Ian Schrager hits the Eternal City

      A grand one-time bank is right on the money as a lush hotel sanctuary 

      The palm-filled, blond-wood interior of The Rome Edition’s restaurant, with, its floor dotted with indigo rugs
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      ‘Barefoot luxury in heels’: Six Senses Rome

      The eco-wellness brand makes its urban debut with a soothing palazzo retreat in the heart of the Eternal City

      Six Senses Rome: a restored palazzo beside a historic church
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      Return to form: W Rome 

      Away from the city centre crowds, this Via Veneto hotel has its own buzz

      Grey sunloungers on the wooden deck beside a pool at W Rome
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      Maalot Roma: access all arias

      The former palace home of Donizetti marries a suitably operatic decor with a tranquil aura

      A room at Maalot Roma with pale-green walls and a lacquered black writing desk
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      Rome’s Palazzo Ripetta: a heavenly stay

      A former convent is being redefined as one of the city’s most intriguing new hotels 

      The Deluxe Suite at the Palazzo Ripetta, with pale green walls and turquoise furnishings
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
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      Green scene: Vancouver’s best vegan and vegetarian restaurants 

      The city’s plant-based dining scene is full of flavour 

      A dish at The Acorn, Vancouver: lentil paté spread on three pieces of crispbread and arranged on a charcoal plate adorned with a sprig of thyme
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
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      Holy roast: the best of the City of London’s church cafés

      From crypt to cathedral, eight coffee stops in beautiful and historic places of worship

      The Wren Coffee at St Nicholas Cole Abbey, with large arched and stained-glass windows surrounding a space dotted with tables and chairs
    • Sunday, 8 October, 2023
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      FT readers: you and Vancouver’s great outdoors

      Your favourite places in and out of the city to stroll, swim, climb or get a round of golf in

      A rocky, forested promontory in Vancouver’s Lighthouse Park, looking over a bay and towards the city skyline
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