Cradled in the majestic Andes at a staggering 3,400 metres above sea level, the ancient city of Cusco is quite literally breathtaking. Once the capital of the Incan Empire, Cusco today is more famous for being the gateway to Machu Picchu and the Valle Sagrado (Sacred Valley). Joe Pickard explores the spectacular mountainous region, which draws visitors for its pre-Hispanic ruins, craft heritage, burgeoning food scene and clutch of luxury hotels.

In this series, we travel the world’s great museums - large and small - through the eyes and minds of Cabana Curators, asking one question: if you had only an hour to spare, what would you see? This week, Grace Fannon, Assistant Curator of Ceramics and Glass at the Victoria and Albert Museum, selects a series of objects that reveal the tactile beauty and layered histories contained within the museum’s unparalleled ceramics collection.

Architect, interior designer and co-founder of Archflorence, Francesca Garagnani, shares her favorite spots in and around the Tuscan capital. A city brimming with Renaissance grandeur and everyday Italian charm, Florence "hides some real treasures," Francesca says.

Casablanca: a city romanticised by a film that wasn’t even shot there, a modern metropolis, dirty, noisy and about as far removed from the glitz and glamour of the roaring twenties as you can get. But to mistake glamour for beauty is to miss the point entirely. This is a city that demands close attention to detail, finds photographer Sam Parkes.

With cinematic views of the Duomo and a chapel with original marble floors, Collegio alla Querce is rightfully assuming its spot as the newest jewel in Auberge Resorts' crown. As Cabana opens a seasonal store at the Florentine property, Martina Mondadori checks-in and discovers a new favorite stay where luxury and authenticity intertwine.

Although writer and editor Noni Ware has always thrived on the constant ebb and flow of crowded cities, little could have prepared her for Kumbh Mela, where the scale, volume and movement of people is so huge that it becomes hard to tether the figures to reality. Noni shares with Cabana an exclusive postcard from the largest human gathering in the world.

Architect, hotelier and collector Jacu Strauss shares the places and spaces that most inspire him in postcard-pretty Amsterdam ~ from "mind-blowing" museums and cozy bars on the canal, to a two-bedroom hidden gem of a hotel where you'll feel like a local and a unique farm-to-table dining experience in a beautiful converted greenhouse.

In this series, we travel the world’s great museums - large and small - through the eyes and minds of Cabana Curators, asking one question: if you had only an hour to spare, what would you see? This week, Gabrielle Niu, Assistant Curator of the Collection and Exhibitions at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, talks Cabana through five of the museum's most notable objects and spaces.

Surrounded by 18,000 acres of Umbrian woodlands, olive groves, farms and rivers, historic Tenuta di Murlo is a stone-walled, terracotta-floored paradise where life is slow and seasonal. Jamie Sharp checks-in for a true taste of la dolce vita.

“Maybe it’s because we all just lost a huge swath of Los Angeles that I’ve been thinking back on the LA of my youth, of the city and world as I dreamed it then,” writes Chris Wallace. The writer and photographer takes a road trip back west, sharing a personal postcard from his LA.

As Cabana makes its Connecticut debut, Editor-in-Chief Martina Mondadori checks-in to The Mayflower Inn and Spa, discovering a true hidden gem in Litchfield County - a hotel that offers the perfect synthesis: "a place that feels both 'away from it all', and precisely where you want to be."

In this series, we travel the world's great museums - large and small - through the eyes and minds of Cabana Curators, asking one question: if you had only an hour to spare, what would you see? This week, Luke Syson, Director of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, takes Cabana on a journey through time. From a Paleolithic reindeer carved on a stone pebble to a haunting Titian masterpiece, he reflects on how this ‘temple and haven’ of British culture embraces history and modernity.

Marcantonio Brandolini d'Adda, the CEO and art director of cult Murano glassware brand Laguna~B, shares an insider's guide to Venice. From the tiny restaurant he's been visiting since childhood, to lesser-known museums and a cozy bar always bathed in sunlight, Marcantonio shares places most tourists won't find.

A longtime style editor turned interiors tastemaker, Jane Keltner de Valle—co-founder of CASA VALLE and Paloroma—shares her guide to Connecticut: a quietly cultured corner of New England filled with lobster rolls, antique treasures, and modernist design secrets.

In this series, we travel the world's great museums - large and small - through the eyes and minds of Cabana Curators, asking one question: If you had only an hour to spare, what would you see? This week, Alice Martin, Head of The Devonshire Collection at the Peak District palace, Chatsworth House, talks Cabana through four of the museum's most notable objects.

Wonderfully stuck-in-time and just three hours from Copenhagen, the historic, little-known Danish island of Ærø is a fascinating spot full of timber-framed houses, colorful beach huts, fairy-tale charm and postcard-perfect views. It's the sort of place where doors are left unlocked, and there’s a mutual understanding that bicycles are to be borrowed and eventually returned. Chloe Frost-Smith explores.