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  "title": "VANE — Mediterranean hotels & restaurants, reviewed",
  "home_page_url": "https://vanehotels.com/",
  "feed_url": "https://vanehotels.com/feed.json",
  "description": "Independent reviews of Mediterranean hotels and restaurants by Dimitris Stathopoulos.",
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    {
      "name": "Dimitris Stathopoulos",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/about.html"
    }
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  "items": [
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      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-rosselli-ax-privilege.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-rosselli-ax-privilege.html",
      "title": "Rosselli AX Privilege, Valletta, palazzo hotel review, VANE",
      "summary": "A goldsmith's Baroque palazzo on Merchants Street, brought back as 25 rooms and a Michelin cellar, and run at the scale of a private house in the middle…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/rosselli-ax-privilege/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-17T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-vila-planinka.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-vila-planinka.html",
      "title": "Vila Planinka, Folio No. 48, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "A close reading of Vila Planinka, the tech-free alpine house at the head of Slovenia's Jezersko valley, with a Michelin-listed table and a cellar drawn from all nine Slovenian wine regions.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/vila-planinka/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-17T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-menton-lemon-the-citron-that-owns-a-festival.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-menton-lemon-the-citron-that-owns-a-festival.html",
      "title": "The Menton lemon, the citron that owns a festival, VANE",
      "summary": "On the last French terraces before Italy grows a thick-skinned, perfumed lemon good enough to have earned its own protected name, and a festival built…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/the-menton-lemon-the-citron-that-owns-a-festival.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-17T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-cilento-the-uncrowded-coast-south-of-the-amalfi.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-cilento-the-uncrowded-coast-south-of-the-amalfi.html",
      "title": "Cilento, the uncrowded coast south of the Amalfi, VANE",
      "summary": "An hour and a half past the Amalfi crush, a Tyrrhenian shore of Greek temples, philosophers' ruins and the village where the Mediterranean diet was named.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/cilento-the-uncrowded-coast-south-of-the-amalfi.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-16T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-monaci-delle-terre-nere.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-monaci-delle-terre-nere.html",
      "title": "Monaci delle Terre Nere, Etna, wine resort review, VANE",
      "summary": "A working wine estate on the black soils of Etna, where the vines are farmed biodynamically and the kitchen cooks mostly what the land gives it. An…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/monaci-delle-terre-nere/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-16T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-monaci-delle-terre-nere.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-monaci-delle-terre-nere.html",
      "title": "Monaci delle Terre Nere, Folio No. 47, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "A close reading of Monaci delle Terre Nere, the working wine estate on the black soils of Etna, where what you pour and eat comes off the hillside.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/monaci-delle-terre-nere/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-16T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-positano-sandal-cut-to-your-foot-while-you-wait.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-positano-sandal-cut-to-your-foot-while-you-wait.html",
      "title": "The Positano sandal, cut to your foot while you wait, VANE",
      "summary": "A strip of leather, a knife, twenty minutes. How a fishing village turned the flat sandal into an object worth waiting for.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/the-positano-sandal-cut-to-your-foot-while-you-wait.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-15T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-chedi-lustica-bay.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-chedi-lustica-bay.html",
      "title": "The Chedi Luštica Bay, Montenegro, marina hotel review, VANE",
      "summary": "The first hotel of a new marina town on the Luštica peninsula, bringing the Chedi's unhurried, Asian-inflected calm to the far side of the Bay of Kotor.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/chedi-lustica-bay/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-15T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-kasbah-bab-ourika.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-kasbah-bab-ourika.html",
      "title": "Kasbah Bab Ourika, Folio No. 46, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "A close reading of Kasbah Bab Ourika, the rammed-earth kasbah alone on a red hilltop above the Ourika Valley, the High Atlas across every window.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/kasbah-bab-ourika/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-15T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-lily-of-the-valley.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-lily-of-the-valley.html",
      "title": "Lily of the Valley, La Croix-Valmer, wellness hotel, VANE",
      "summary": "The Saint-Tropez peninsula is not where you expect to find a hotel about restraint. Lily of the Valley sits above the noise on the Cap Lardier headland…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/lily-of-the-valley/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-14T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-euripus-where-the-tide-loses-count.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-euripus-where-the-tide-loses-count.html",
      "title": "The Euripus, where the tide loses count, VANE",
      "summary": "At Chalcis, a strip of water barely forty metres wide changes its mind up to fourteen times a day, and it took more than two thousand years to explain why.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/the-euripus-where-the-tide-loses-count.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-14T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-lily-of-the-valley.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-lily-of-the-valley.html",
      "title": "Lily of the Valley, Folio No. 45, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "A close reading of Lily of the Valley, Philippe Starck's wellness resort above Gigaro beach on the Saint-Tropez peninsula, where health is treated as a pleasure rather than a penance. VANE Folio No. 45.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/lily-of-the-valley/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-14T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-le-corbusier-coast-where-e-1027-and-the-cabanon-share-a-cliff-at-cap-martin.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-le-corbusier-coast-where-e-1027-and-the-cabanon-share-a-cliff-at-cap-martin.html",
      "title": "Le Corbusier's Cap Martin: E-1027 and the Cabanon, VANE",
      "summary": "A shelf of rock above the sea at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin holds Eileen Gray's masterpiece, Le Corbusier's smallest building, and the quarrel that still runs…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/the-le-corbusier-coast-where-e-1027-and-the-cabanon-share-a-cliff-at-cap-martin.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-13T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-the-phoenicia-malta.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-the-phoenicia-malta.html",
      "title": "The Phoenicia Malta, Folio No. 44, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "A close reading of The Phoenicia Malta, the island's first grand hotel at the land gate of Valletta, with seven acres of garden falling to a pool below the bastion. VANE Folio No. 44.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/the-phoenicia-malta/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-13T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-alavya.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-alavya.html",
      "title": "Alavya, Alaçatı, design hotel review, VANE",
      "summary": "Six restored stone houses gathered around a walled garden in the heart of Alaçatı, hung with the owners' art and built on the Aegean habit of doing very…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/alavya/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-13T00:00:00Z"
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    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-kastellorizo-the-harbour-at-the-edge-of-greece.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-kastellorizo-the-harbour-at-the-edge-of-greece.html",
      "title": "Kastellorizo, the harbour at the edge of Greece, VANE",
      "summary": "A field note from the country's easternmost island, a single painted waterfront facing the Turkish coast across a strip of impossibly clear water.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/kastellorizo-the-harbour-at-the-edge-of-greece.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-12T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-when-the-day-is-cut-in-two.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-when-the-day-is-cut-in-two.html",
      "title": "When the day is cut in two, VANE",
      "summary": "A total solar eclipse crosses Europe on 12 August 2026, from the cold Atlantic light of Iceland to a sunset over Spain. Two ends of the continent, one…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/when-the-day-is-cut-in-two.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-12T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-al-moudira.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-al-moudira.html",
      "title": "Al Moudira, Folio No. 43, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "A close reading of Al Moudira, the country-house hotel on Luxor's quiet west bank, built by Zeina Aboukheir from a salvaged old Egypt. VANE Folio.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/al-moudira/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-12T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-xara-palace.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-xara-palace.html",
      "title": "The Xara Palace, Folio No. 42, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "A close reading of The Xara Palace, the only hotel inside Mdina's walls — a 17th-century palazzo, seventeen rooms and a Michelin-starred rooftop.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/xara-palace/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-11T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-chios-mastiha-the-tears-that-grow-in-only-one-place.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-chios-mastiha-the-tears-that-grow-in-only-one-place.html",
      "title": "Chios Mastiha, the Tears That Grow in Only One Place, VANE",
      "summary": "One resin, one island, one stretch of southern hillside. The only ground on earth where the mastic tree agrees to weep.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/chios-mastiha-the-tears-that-grow-in-only-one-place.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-11T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-meneghetti.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-meneghetti.html",
      "title": "Meneghetti, Istria, wine hotel review, VANE",
      "summary": "A restored Austro-Hungarian farmstead deep in Istria, Croatia's quiet answer to Tuscany, where the wine, the oil and much of the plate come off the…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/meneghetti/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-11T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/list-paros.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/list-paros.html",
      "title": "Paros travel and food guide: eat, see, go | VANE",
      "summary": "Paros done right: Parikia and the Hundred Doors, Naoussa after dark, the marble villages and Byzantine road, the quiet coves and the tavernas locals keep.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/og-default.png",
      "date_published": "2026-08-11T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/list-corfu.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/list-corfu.html",
      "title": "Corfu travel and food guide: eat, see, go | VANE",
      "summary": "Corfu done right: the Venetian Old Town and fortresses, the Liston, the Achilleion, Pantokrator and Paleokastritsa, the island's table, and what to skip.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/og-default.png",
      "date_published": "2026-08-11T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-the-phoenicia-malta.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-the-phoenicia-malta.html",
      "title": "The Phoenicia Malta, Valletta, grand hotel review, VANE",
      "summary": "Malta's first grand hotel keeps a trick no newer rival can copy: seven acres of garden falling from the gate of Valletta to a pool set against the…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/the-phoenicia-malta/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-10T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-casa-dell-arte.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-casa-dell-arte.html",
      "title": "Casa dell'Arte, Folio No. 41, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "A close reading of Casa dell'Arte, the Torba house on the Bodrum peninsula where a family hung three decades of Turkish art, then opened the doors.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/casa-dell-arte/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-10T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-menorca-the-balearic-that-chose-quiet-over-crowds.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-menorca-the-balearic-that-chose-quiet-over-crowds.html",
      "title": "Menorca, the Balearic that chose quiet over crowds, VANE",
      "summary": "The island UNESCO protected in 1993 is quietly becoming the low-impact answer to Ibiza, led by a new pair of fincas in the empty north.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/menorca-the-balearic-that-chose-quiet-over-crowds.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-10T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-manna.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-manna.html",
      "title": "Manna, Folio No. 40, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "A close reading of Manna, the late-1920s Mount Mainalo sanatorium that K-Studio brought back as one of Greece's most considered mountain retreats. VANE Folio No. 40.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/manna/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-dar-ben-gacem.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-dar-ben-gacem.html",
      "title": "Dar Ben Gacem, Tunis, medina guesthouse review, VANE",
      "summary": "A dar is a house turned inward, its life facing a courtyard rather than the street, and the medina of Tunis is full of them behind blank walls and studded…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/dar-ben-gacem/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-riva-aquarama-the-mahogany-speedboat-that-is-the-riviera-itself.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-riva-aquarama-the-mahogany-speedboat-that-is-the-riviera-itself.html",
      "title": "The Riva Aquarama, mahogany icon of the Riviera, VANE",
      "summary": "Built by hand on an Italian lake, Riva's varnished runabout became the one object that stands in for the whole Mediterranean summer.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/the-riva-aquarama-the-mahogany-speedboat-that-is-the-riviera-itself.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/list-thessaloniki.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/list-thessaloniki.html",
      "title": "Thessaloniki travel and food guide: eat, see, go | VANE",
      "summary": "Thessaloniki done right: Ano Poli, the Byzantine churches and the Rotonda, bougatsa and the markets, the tsipouradika and the mussels, and what to skip.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/og-default.png",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-bkerzay.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-bkerzay.html",
      "title": "Bkerzay, Folio No. 39, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "A close reading of Bkerzay, the stone guest-house village in Lebanon's Chouf mountains — a conservation project run on the sun, with its own kiln.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/bkerzay/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-meltemi-the-wind-that-rules-the-aegean-summer.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-meltemi-the-wind-that-rules-the-aegean-summer.html",
      "title": "The Meltemi, the wind that rules the Aegean summer, VANE",
      "summary": "The dry northerly that scours the Cyclades from July to September is not weather so much as a season with a temper. It shaped the islands, and it still…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/the-meltemi-the-wind-that-rules-the-aegean-summer.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-bkerzay.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-bkerzay.html",
      "title": "Bkerzay, Chouf, Lebanon mountain hotel review, VANE",
      "summary": "Most mountain hotels sit on the land. Bkerzay sits down inside it. A scatter of stone houses on a shoulder of the Chouf, built low among the pines and…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/bkerzay/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-08T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-gibellina-the-town-italy-rebuilt-as-art.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-gibellina-the-town-italy-rebuilt-as-art.html",
      "title": "Gibellina, the town Italy rebuilt as art, VANE",
      "summary": "An earthquake destroyed a Sicilian town, and artists rebuilt it. In 2026 Gibellina is Italy's first Capital of Contemporary Art. Five things to see.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/gibellina-the-town-italy-rebuilt-as-art.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-07T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-mas-de-torrent.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-mas-de-torrent.html",
      "title": "Mas de Torrent, Empordà, Costa Brava hotel review, VANE",
      "summary": "An 18th-century Catalan farmhouse above the Baix Empordà, turned into a low, quiet retreat where the whole luxury is being left alone with the garden and…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/mas-de-torrent/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-07T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/list-mykonos.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/list-mykonos.html",
      "title": "Mykonos travel and food guide: eat, see, go | VANE",
      "summary": "Mykonos done right: Delos across the water, Little Venice timed after the crowd, quiet Ano Mera, the exposed north beaches, and the tavernas the locals keep.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/og-default.png",
      "date_published": "2026-08-07T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-mas-de-torrent.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-mas-de-torrent.html",
      "title": "Mas de Torrent, Folio No. 38, a researched profile, VANE",
      "summary": "Mas de Torrent, an 18th-century Catalan farmhouse above the Baix Empordà, with a serious kitchen and the Costa Brava coves a short boat ride away.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/mas-de-torrent/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-07T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-beit-al-batroun.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-beit-al-batroun.html",
      "title": "Beit al Batroun, Thoum, Lebanon guesthouse review, VANE",
      "summary": "A five-room house on a hillside above the sea near Batroun, built over a decade by one woman out of salvaged Lebanese doors, shutters and tiles, and run…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/beit-al-batroun/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-06T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-symi-the-harbour-painted-by-sponge-money.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-symi-the-harbour-painted-by-sponge-money.html",
      "title": "Symi, the harbour painted by sponge money, VANE",
      "summary": "A field note from the Dodecanese port where a fortune in sponge-diving wealth still stands, tier on tier, in ochre and blue.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/symi-the-harbour-painted-by-sponge-money.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-06T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-adrere-amellal.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-adrere-amellal.html",
      "title": "Adrère Amellal, Folio No. 37, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "A close reading of Adrere Amellal, the off-grid salt-rock lodge in Egypt's Siwa Oasis — forty candlelit rooms and a near-vanished silence. VANE Folio.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/adrere-amellal/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-06T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-torre-de-palma.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-torre-de-palma.html",
      "title": "Torre de Palma Wine Hotel, Alentejo estate review, VANE",
      "summary": "A working Alentejo wine estate with a serious kitchen and nineteen cool white rooms, wrapped around the memory of the Roman villa it is named for.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/torre-de-palma/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-05T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-bottarga-di-cabras-sardinias-amber-gold.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-bottarga-di-cabras-sardinias-amber-gold.html",
      "title": "Bottarga di Cabras, Sardinia's amber gold, VANE",
      "summary": "In a brackish lagoon on Sardinia's west coast, grey mullet roe is salted, pressed and dried into the Mediterranean's amber caviar.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/bottarga-di-cabras-sardinias-amber-gold.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-05T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-torre-de-palma.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-torre-de-palma.html",
      "title": "Torre de Palma, Folio No. 36, a researched profile, VANE",
      "summary": "Torre de Palma, a working Alentejo wine estate near Monforte with a serious kitchen, its own cellar and the memory of the Roman villa it is named for.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/torre-de-palma/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-05T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-efendi.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-efendi.html",
      "title": "Efendi, Folio No. 35, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "Efendi: two derelict Ottoman merchant houses inside old Acre's walls, restored over eight years by the chef behind Uri Buri into twelve rooms.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/efendi/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-04T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-astypalea-the-island-that-turned-off-its-engines.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-astypalea-the-island-that-turned-off-its-engines.html",
      "title": "Astypalea, the island that turned off its engines, VANE",
      "summary": "Volkswagen and the Greek state turned this Dodecanese butterfly into a laboratory for the electric car. Several years in, the experiment reads less like a…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/astypalea-the-island-that-turned-off-its-engines.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-04T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-hacienda-de-san-rafael.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-hacienda-de-san-rafael.html",
      "title": "Hacienda de San Rafael review, Andalusian hacienda, VANE",
      "summary": "An 18th-century olive estate halfway between Seville and Jerez, restored into a small, hushed hacienda where the Andalusian countryside sets the pace.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/hacienda-de-san-rafael/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-04T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-efendi.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-efendi.html",
      "title": "Efendi Hotel, Acre, Old City boutique hotel review, VANE",
      "summary": "Two Ottoman merchant palaces inside the walls of old Acre, joined and brought back stone by stone, with painted ceilings above the beds and a Crusader…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/efendi/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-03T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-el-fenn.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-el-fenn.html",
      "title": "El Fenn, Folio No. 34, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "A close reading of El Fenn, Vanessa Branson's Marrakech riad grown from its neighbours over two decades — run on colour, craft and a real art collection.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/el-fenn/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-03T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-blancpain-fifty-fathoms-tech-the-diver-that-stopped-counting-minutes.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-blancpain-fifty-fathoms-tech-the-diver-that-stopped-counting-minutes.html",
      "title": "Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Tech, the minute-less diver, VANE",
      "summary": "Blancpain's newest diver counts time in three-hour shifts, not sixty-minute laps. A quiet answer to how long divers really stay down.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/blancpain-fifty-fathoms-tech-the-diver-that-stopped-counting-minutes.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-08-03T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-palazzo-radomiri.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-palazzo-radomiri.html",
      "title": "Palazzo Radomiri, Folio No. 33, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "Palazzo Radomiri, a restored 17th-century captain's house on the Dobrota waterfront in the Bay of Kotor, ten rooms named after boats. A close VANE reading.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/palazzo-radomiri/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-07-26T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-capo-batroun.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-capo-batroun.html",
      "title": "Capo, Batroun, Lebanon, hotel review, VANE",
      "summary": "A small architect-built resort on the Batroun shore, cast quite literally from beach sand and cement so it seems to rise out of the coast itself. Eight…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/capo-batroun/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-07-26T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-bora-adriatic-wind.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-the-bora-adriatic-wind.html",
      "title": "The bora, and the coast it made, VANE",
      "summary": "A cold wind falls off the Dinaric wall and decides how the northern Adriatic looks, sails and tastes.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/the-bora-adriatic-wind.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-07-26T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-nimes-borrows-the-louvres-rome.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-nimes-borrows-the-louvres-rome.html",
      "title": "Nîmes borrows the Louvre's Rome, VANE",
      "summary": "For one summer the most Roman city in France holds a hundred works from the Louvre, and asks us to stop looking at Rome as though it were only beautiful.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/nimes-borrows-the-louvres-rome.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-07-25T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-lopud-1483.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-lopud-1483.html",
      "title": "Lopud 1483, Folio No. 32, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "Lopud 1483, a fortified Franciscan monastery off Dubrovnik, empty since 1822 and restored into five suites and a cloister of art. A close VANE reading.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/lopud-1483/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-07-25T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-lopud-1483.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-lopud-1483.html",
      "title": "Lopud 1483, Lopud, Croatian island review, VANE",
      "summary": "You arrive by boat, since Lopud allows no cars, and the monastery meets you at the water: a wall of pale stone rising off its own point, raised in 1483…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/lopud-1483/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-07-25T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-kasbah-bab-ourika.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/hotel-kasbah-bab-ourika.html",
      "title": "Kasbah Bab Ourika, Ourika Valley, Atlas Mountains, VANE",
      "summary": "The kasbah stands on its own on a red hilltop at the head of the Ourika Valley, three-quarters of an hour out of Marrakech, and the first thing you notice…",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/kasbah-bab-ourika/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-07-24T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-argos-in-cappadocia.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-argos-in-cappadocia.html",
      "title": "Argos in Cappadocia, Folio No. 31, a close reading, VANE",
      "summary": "Argos in Cappadocia: a monastery quarter above Pigeon Valley, dug back out of the rock over fourteen years. A close reading of Uchisar's cave hotel.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/argos-in-cappadocia/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-07-24T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-monemvasia-the-town-behind-the-rock.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-monemvasia-the-town-behind-the-rock.html",
      "title": "Monemvasia, the town behind the rock, VANE",
      "summary": "A field note from the Peloponnese, where a single causeway leads to a medieval town you cannot see from land.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/monemvasia-the-town-behind-the-rock.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-07-24T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-hisa-franko.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/folio-hisa-franko.html",
      "title": "Hiša Franko, Kobarid, Folio No. 30, VANE",
      "summary": "A close reading of Hisa Franko, the Soca-valley guesthouse where self-taught Ana Ros cooks one menu under three Michelin stars, with ten rooms to stay.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/hisa-franko/hero.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-07-23T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-gaziantep-the-pistachio-kingdom.html",
      "url": "https://vanehotels.com/bearings-gaziantep-the-pistachio-kingdom.html",
      "title": "Gaziantep, the pistachio kingdom, VANE",
      "summary": "How a city in Turkey's south-east built its whole table around one small green nut, then fenced its baklava inside European law.",
      "image": "https://vanehotels.com/images/journal/gaziantep-the-pistachio-kingdom.jpg",
      "date_published": "2026-07-23T00:00:00Z"
    }
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}