Some hotels simply occupy a city. Others become part of its story. L'Imperator is firmly in the latter camp. Opened in the 1920s and enjoying one of Nîmes' finest addresses beside the leafy Jardin de la Fontaine, this grand hotel has long been the unofficial living room of the city. Ernest Hemingway drank here, Pablo Picasso stayed here, Ava Gardner charmed the staff and generations of artists, writers and bullfighters have wandered through its doors. Following an extensive r

Planes are efficient, yachts are flash y, and road trips are… well, they involve gas station snacks. Nothing beats the deliciously old-school glamour of a luxury train journey. Luxury train journeys aren’t about speed or efficiency (that’s what budget airlines are for). They’re about stepping back into a time when travel was an event—where dressing for dinner mattered, cocktails were shaken not stirred, and the journey itself was the destination.

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