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St Moritz Has Been Alpine Old Money's Winter Address Since the 1860s
The Swiss resort that popularised winter tourism in the nineteenth century has kept its Cresta Run toboggan club, its grand belle-époque hotels and its old…
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The Peak Has Been Hong Kong's Address of Choice Since the Colonial Era
Long the most sought-after residential ground in Hong Kong, the hillside neighbourhood known simply as The Peak has kept its cooler air, its harbour views and…
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Deià Has Drawn Writers and Film Stars to Mallorca's Tramuntana Coast Since Robert Graves Settled There in 1929
A terraced stone village on Mallorca's Serra de Tramuntana coast, Deià built its reputation as a writers' retreat around Robert Graves and has since drawn…
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Hyannis Port Has Been the Kennedy Family's Summer Address Since Joseph Kennedy Bought a Cottage in 1928
The Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, three adjoining waterfront properties bought by the family from the late 1920s onward, served as John F…
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Napa Valley Is Where Old Wine Money and New Hollywood Money Finally Agree
Since the 1976 'Judgment of Paris' put its wines on the map, Napa Valley has drawn old vintner families and famous newcomers alike to buy into its hillside…
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Le Touquet Has Been the Discreet Coast for Paris and London's Old Money Since the 1900s
Built from pine forest into a resort at the turn of the twentieth century, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage drew British and French aristocracy between the wars and…
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Block Island Is the New England Retreat Old Families Picked Precisely Because It Wasn't Newport
Nine miles off the Rhode Island coast, Block Island built its own Victorian-era grand-hotel era in the 1870s and 1880s, then spent the following century…
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Round Hill Has Been Jamaica's Old-Money Address Since 1953, Built as a Colony of Private Villas
West of Montego Bay in Hopewell, Round Hill Hotel and Villas has drawn transatlantic society since it opened in 1953 as a cottage colony of individually owned…
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Newport Is Where America's Old Astor Money Lost a Very Public Fight to the Vanderbilts
Rhode Island's Gilded Age summer colony turned a rivalry between old Astor money and Vanderbilt new money into a run of stone 'cottages' along the Atlantic…
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Mackinac Island Banned Cars in 1898, and Old Midwest Money Has Summered There Ever Since
Reachable only by ferry or small aircraft, Mackinac Island has banned motor vehicles since 1898 and has quietly drawn Midwest industrial money, from the Ford…
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Greenwich Is Where Wall Street's Hedge Fund Money Went Home
A 45-minute train ride from Grand Central, Greenwich, Connecticut has moved from Gilded Age railroad fortunes to one of the most concentrated hedge fund…
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Park City Turned a Dying Silver Town Into Robert Redford's Sundance and an Olympic Ski Resort
A former silver-mining town in Utah's Wasatch Mountains, Park City now hosts the Sundance Film Festival each January and America's largest single ski resort…
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