The best places to visit this summer
If you’re starting to resent your friends’ exotic vacation posts right about now (why did you book that Montauk rental again?!) or you're still asking "Where should I go in August?" you can stop your FOMO bellyaching.
Here, we’ve compiled our summer vacation ideas—all the hotel openings, cultural happenings, lesser-known landscapes, and emerging food and wine spots worth traveling for (and which you just might, in some cases, have to yourself).
Sardinia, Italy
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Sardinia in summer is all about prime snorkeling, languid afternoons spent on the beach, and the revelatory experience of tasting a slice of the salted, dried fish roe delicacy known as bottarga. But the island also has a complex history of invasion and cultural exchange that will be in the limelight this summer. It’s been 20 years since the nuraghi, Bronze Age structures from a mysterious ancient civilization, came to the world’s attention after the most famous site was named a UNESCO World Heritage site and this summer, the island will be celebrating with reduced admission to select nuraghisites. It’s a better excuse than any to get off the beach for a few days and be awed by some little-understood history.
Montreal, Canada
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Anyone who has braved a trip to Montreal during the coldest winter months will tell you that you’re best off waiting for the snow piles that line the city’s streets to melt. But this summer, there’s an extra special reason to make a trip to the City of Saints: It’s Montreal’s 375th birthday, and the city is putting on quite the party—it’s older than Canada, after all. The city had its official celebration on May 17, which featured fireworks, lit-up bridges, ringing church bells, and giant marionettes (among other attractions), but events will continue through the summer and beyond. Expect street-side circus performances, scattered sound installations, free concerts, historical tours, art exhibits, and more. For the full (30-page) programming, check out the official website. Leonard Cohen fans will want to try a walking tour of the singer's favorite haunts around his native Montreal.
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