Haus Hirt Hotel | Bad Gastein, Austria

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Infinity Views from Eros Keros Villas, on the slow-pace Cyclades island of Koufonisia

VILLAS - Koufonisia, Greece

Éros Kéros

Éros Kéros Villas, on the slow-pace Cyclades island of Koufonisia, come drenched in Aegean blue vistas – a sun-kissed boutique retreat of four cubic Cyclades-style merchant houses that lazily gaze onto the island of Keros.

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Tinos’ Marble Marvels

From vast Doric columns to tiny, intricately carved religious artefacts, beautifully smooth busts and imposing door lintels, the Museum of Marble Craft in Tinos reveals the surprising malleability of this revered material.

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Secret solace in rural Mallorca

Summer in Mallorca is seeing the Balearic isle at its best. A blazing sun hangs in a deep blue, cloudless sky, people throng the cobbled streets of Palma’s old town and restaurants spill over into the streets.

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Red Bull’s Playstreets Bad Gastein

Red Bull hits the sleepy spa town of Bad Gastein in Austria - Well known for the high profile blood-pumping, adrenaline-rushing, pulse-racing sports events that they hold worldwide, Red Bull are now gearing up for their eighth edition of the international free ski event, "Red Bull PlayStreets", held in the beautiful, healing surroundings of Bad Gastein in Austria. So if anyone falls off their skis, they are probably in the perfect place.

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An Art Festival of Ice

Bad Gastein is renowned as a centre for incredible Austrian skiing - as well as being a beautiful valley full of age-old healing springs - but did you know it also holds the biggest art festival in the Alps, too? From the January 31 to February 6, 2026, Bad Gastein’s famed ski areas and picturesque town centres will come alive to the sound of ice being expertly chiselled.

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Ski Guide to Bad Gastein

Located in the Hohe Tauern National Park in the heart of the Salzburgerland province, Bad Gastein’s ski playground is made up of 200km of groomed pistes scattered over four different mountains, part of the Ski Amadé area, with over 1,000 metres of altitude which offers superb long downhill runs.

Cool hip Miramonte Hotel & Aveda Spa with Bertoia chairs, White Line Hotels

HOTEL - Bad Gastein, Austria

Miramonte

A peak-side, sophisticated bolthole oozing fifties Vogue glamour. A firm favourite of the design fraternity, it is a trove of timeless, postmodern pieces that feel perfectly at home in this alpine masterpiece of creative chillax.

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Your Ski Holiday Just Went Underground

This year you find yourself dreaming of something slightly less usual, it’s time to take your holiday down-time underground. Into Bad Gastein’s healing caves.

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Haus Hirt: Expert Yoga Classes & Conscious Breathing

It is said that the rhythm of your breath determines the length of your life. At Haus Hirt Hotel in Austria's stunning Gastein Valley, you could almost extend your life beyond the probable just by taking in its purest alpine air in a setting of Bad Gastein that inspires one to live forever.

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Bad Gastein: Habsburg glamour dusted with Wes Anderson

Affectionately known as the Monte Carlo of the Alps and the playground of the royals and the Habsburgs, Austria's Bad Gastein is a Wunderkammer of faded Belle-Époque glamour and energetic creativity.

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sommer.frische.kunst. Art Festival 2025

During the summer months, the once crowned Monte Carlo of the Alps, the spa town & resort of Bad Gastein, plays host to an inspiring Artists-in-residence cultural programme: sommer.frische.kunst. 2025.

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Berlin Moves to Bad Gastein - A Spa Resort that Pumps & Beats

Electronic music meets Belle Époque architecture in Bad Gastein, Austria, as Grand Lighthouse returns with design-led venues, thermal rituals and Alpine culture shaping winter’s most stylish festival escape.

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Solstice

Koolhaas’ Casa da Música in Porto - a brutal beauty to Negroni email flags, GPS to Santa please, shortest days, 2025 pack your bags, my clubhouse hangout in Adelboden infused by Wales and LA, Berlin hugs Bad Gastein for a festival, where to drink wine in Lisbon and where to steam in style - obviously not in the same place.

First, I want a fast ticket to the new hotel pool in a medieval Tyrolean town with slow-down Champagne habits.

Brücke 49 Herberge Vals - a small design guesthouse with luxury nordic style, Switzerland

Guesthouse - Vals, Switzerland

Brücke 49

A fabulously humble basecamp of good design for kindreds of style, Brücke 49 is a collection of rooms, suites, studios and apartments in the high-in-the-mountains creative enclave, Vals.

Forsthofgut Hotel & Spa, Leogang, Austria | Luxury Hotel In Leogang

HOTEL - Leogang, Austria

Forsthofgut

A lair of nature wrapped by the mountains and forests with perhaps one of the best nature-inspired spas in Austria, all overlooking the Leogang Rockies. This design hotel hugs smooth modern interiors that brush up to loveliness of the Alps, complete with its own lake.

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VILLAS - Koufonisia, Greece

Éros Kéros

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Tinos’ Marble Marvels

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Secret solace in rural Mallorca

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VILLAS - Koufonisia, Greece

Éros Kéros

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Tinos’ Marble Marvels

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Secret solace in rural Mallorca

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Red Bull’s Playstreets Bad Gastein

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An Art Festival of Ice

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Ski Guide to Bad Gastein

HOTEL - Bad Gastein, Austria

Miramonte

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Your Ski Holiday Just Went Underground

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Haus Hirt: Expert Yoga Classes & Conscious Breathing

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Bad Gastein: Habsburg glamour dusted with Wes Anderson

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sommer.frische.kunst. Art Festival 2025

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Berlin Moves to Bad Gastein - A Spa Resort that Pumps & Beats

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Solstice

Guesthouse - Vals, Switzerland

Brücke 49

HOTEL - Leogang, Austria

Forsthofgut

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