On the RiseMessinia, where the Odyssey comes home
Nolan filmed Homer's coast here. Go now — before the world reads the same map.
The Suitcase Without Rivets
Ten years into the Horizon line, Marc Newson has removed the one detail every aluminium case was supposed to need.
The TableSantorini's Volcanic Table, Before the Stars Land
Michelin arrives on the island in 2026; we taste the terroir that made it inevitable.
Field NotesVenice, In Minor Keys
Koyo Kouoh did not live to open her Biennale; we go to read the exhibition she finished anyway.
The EditThe Museum Openings Reshaping the Mediterranean in 2026
From a long-delayed Cairo colossus to quiet additions to the Athenian shoreline, the year's most consequential museum debuts ring the inland sea.
On the RiseZagori, the Greece That Stayed Quiet
Two years after UNESCO listed its stone villages, mountain Epirus is finally easy to reach — and still, for now, unhurried.
The ObjectA Quiet Watch for Crossing Time Zones
Laurent Ferrier's Sport Traveller does the one thing a travel watch must do, and almost nothing else.
The TableCrete Reads Itself in Olive Oil, in a Thirsty Year
The island's defining oil is also its most exposed crop, and the past two harvests have shown why.
Field NotesThe Acropolis Reopens Its First Museum
On the sacred rock itself, a long-shuttered museum returns this spring with 1,185 objects shown for the first time.
The EditThe Mediterranean Wine Regions We Are Drinking Now
Volcanic slopes, high-altitude island vines and revived native grapes: where the basin's most interesting bottles are coming from this year.
On the RiseThe Albanian Riviera, Caught in the Act
A new tunnel opened the southern coast in a single summer; the question now is whether it can hold its nerve.
Rimowa Learns to Speak Leather
With a muted blue and its first all-leather case, Rimowa edges away from the aluminium grooves that made it.
The TableTinos Is Building a Cuisine, Not Maintaining One
While the Cyclades chase Michelin, a quieter island is being shaped plate by plate around its own ingredients.
Field NotesTroy Comes to the Colosseum
Rome reopens the question of its own origins with 300 objects, many lent by Türkiye and never before seen in Italy.
The EditThe Train Journeys Worth Taking This Year
New night routes and revived coastal lines that make the slow approach to the Mediterranean the better part of the trip.
No pieces in this column yet — more on the way.