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Madrid’s Villa Magna is offering VIP access to the city’s famed Prado Museum, along with expert art guides, and insight into Spain’s rich art history. Priced from $14,560 a night, the Prado package places guests in Villa Magna’s 1,500-square-foot Royal Suite, which is well stocked with bottles of Spanish cava ...

Eugene’s first new downtown hotel in 28 years, Inn at the 5th, opened earlier this month. Located on the west side of the Fifth Street Public Market (the city’s famous outdoor shopping area), the $11.7 million boutique hotel is steps away from several home, gift, and specialty stores.

Looking for a supportive start-up community in which to launch your venture but hoping to skip the extreme competition of the likes of Silicon Valley? If you hurry, New Orleans may be the answer.

Situated in the heart of the city, the newly unveiled St. Regis Florence seamlessly blends the city’s artistic heritage with contemporary design, and modern amenities. After a $100 million renovation and restoration, the former Grand Hotel reopened this fall with 81 spacious rooms and 19 suites, including a Presidential Suite ...

First you had to pay to drive into the city center.

In January, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg tapped Rachel Sterne to be the city's first chief digital officer--and ever since then, the 27-year-old (28 on Monday) has been on a tear, dragging New York into the 21st century.

Banyan Tree opens its latest resort in Cotai, Macau, on May 15 as a part of the city’s new 136-acre resort complex, Galaxy Macau.

Boston's Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center is one of three hospitals in the city testing a new program to help lower-level workers earn a degree free of charge. Seth Doane reports on the hospital's program that trains up from within.

In their August 28th, 1869 issue, Scientific American listed some techniques to aid in restoring breath to “persons apparently dead from drowning.” The methods were given by Professor Benjamin Howard and were sanctioned by the Metropolitan Board of Health of the city of New York. [More]

On April 2, the Corinthia Hotel reopened its flagship London location with 294 renovated rooms and suites surrounding an inner foyer and garden. The Corinthia, London, which maintained the building’s original Victorian exterior from 1885, is located in the city center overlooking many major landmarks, including the Thames River, the ...

DNA from a mass grave found in Athens in the mid-1990s helped experts identify typhoid fever as a possible source of the plague that killed off one quarter of the city’s population in the fifth century

The Ritz-Carlton recently opened its first Canadian property in downtown Toronto. At 53 stories, the Ritz-Carlton, Toronto features 267 guest rooms, each with floor-to-ceiling windows featuring panoramic views of the city or Lake Ontario

The Ritz-Carlton recently opened its first Canadian property in downtown Toronto. At 53 stories, the Ritz-Carlton, Toronto features 267 guest rooms, each with floor-to-ceiling windows featuring panoramic views of the city or Lake Ontario. Rooms range from deluxe suites ($500 per night) to its 2,400-square-foot Ritz-Carlton suite ($6,000 per night).