Conde Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler magazine is filled with the travel secrets of celebrated writers and sophisticated travelers. Each monthly issue features breathtaking destinations, including the finest art, architecture, fashion, culture, cuisine, lodgings, and shopping. With Condé Nast Traveler as your guide, you'll discover the best islands, cities, spas, castles, and cruises.

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MAKING A SCENE • A tight-knit community of artists and entrepreneurs is reinvigorating the historic Mexican city of Querétaro

GOLDEN CHILD • A blink-and-you’ll-miss-it surf town on Australia’s east coast is now a chic weekend getaway

CAPITAL OF CRAFT • With its marriage of fresh design thought and centuries-old traditions, Kyoto remains Japan’s creative epicenter

EASTERN SETTINGS • How Jacques Cartier’s travels in India and the Middle East transformed the maison

RUNWAY TO SANTA FE • Indigenous designer Orlando Dugi shares his favorite art, culture, and cocktails in his adopted hometown

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Free Spirits • Big brands offer consistency, but it can be the indie charmers—diminutive inns and experiments from first-time hoteliers—that offer the most surprise and delight

Big Ideas • Amusement parks, world-class dining, and spas: Let’s hear it for the super ships that pull off epic feats at massive scales

Better Than the Beach • An exceptional oceanside location doesn’t require dramatic design, luxury amenities, and pioneering wellness experiences to be amazing—but they all help

Keys to the City • Great hotels can be gateways to their surroundings. These new urban retreats pull in local inspiration while serving as destinations unto themselves

still lazy after all these years • Decades after a boyhood of easygoing afternoons in Washington State’s San Juan Islands, Jesse Ashlock returns with his own children to rediscover this bucolic corner of America where time almost seems to stand still

home is where you make it • On a road trip through Oman with her toddler son, Ashlea Halpern ponders what it means to be a parent in the wake of her father’s death

lost in time • On an epic, sun-soaked journey across southern Greece’s Peloponnese, Antonia Quirke revels in her connection to the history and myths that swirl around its rugged shores

PAINT THE TOWN • In residential South Kolkata, enterprising young locals are turning brightly colored old estates, once doomed for demolition, into the city’s latest hot spots

EXPLORING KOLKATA’S OLD HOMES

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