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The biggest news this week was undoubtedly the morbid horror show of the Titan and the terrible fate of its occupants deep in the ocean. While we have plenty of coverage if you want to switch gears, our lead feature this week is much more pleasant fare. Anthony Paletta has written about the long-awaited reopening of the Hispanic Society in New York City. Housed in a fabulous Beaux-Arts palatial complex, it has the largest collection of Spanish art outside of Spain. But it’s still very much under the radar, meaning you can gawk at Velazquez and Goya without somebody breathing down your neck.

Benjamin Kemper, one of the foremost writers on Georgia, has written about its stunning array of outdoors action–from water sports on the Black Sea to adrenaline pumping mountain activities. And Loic Cardinal has our latest for Room Key, this time the luxurious new Six Senses property in the heart of Rome.

Enjoy!

— William O’Connor, Travel Editor

Spain Without Crowds? It's Possible Without Leaving Manhattan

The largest collection of Spanish art outside of Spain can be found in the upper reaches of Manhattan at a museum often overlooked by residents and visitors alike.

Georgia Is an Adventure Paradise Where Hiking Meets Khachapuri

Here was a place where you could be jet-skiing in the Black Sea one day and heli-skiing down glaciated peaks the next—all in a country roughly the size of South Carolina.

Inside a New Luxurious Oasis in the Heart of Rome

Rome may be bustling with tourists these days, but it doesn’t mean you can’t find some luxurious calm.

‘Like Disneyland’: Titanic Families Blast ‘Disgusting’ Tours of Wreckage

Families with relatives who died in or survived the 1912 Titanic disaster say the wreckage site is a “graveyard” that should be treated with respect—not as a travel destination.

“Titan and OceanGate is a cautionary tale in many respects, even if the cautions like ‘ensure the vessel has a locator beacon for when it gets lost’ seem glaringly obvious. It should also suggest that, just like extraorbital exploration in space, humans can get better results, with lower risk to life and limb, by sending robots into hostile environments instead of humans.”

– Kelsey D. Atherton proposes that we should be leaving exploration of space and the deep sea to robots, not humans.

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—Scouted by Mia Maguire

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Travel Around the World With Surfers

Few things in travel read more like an addiction than a surfer chasing good surf. There is this constant pull they talk about, and they’ll travel far and to dangerous places to get it. So while millions of us travel every week to the seaside to lounge and relax, they’re headed there for an adrenaline rush. The latest selection for Just Booked, our series on gorgeous coffee table books, catalogs the work of the magazine that tries to capture this world–Surfer Magazine: 1960-2020, published by Rizzoli.

The book is filled with spectacular shots, made more remarkable given the images are an attempt to capture in static form an action (man with ocean) full of movement and energy. Over the decades one can see how the depiction of the sport changes not only in terms of logo designs and artwork, but also in how the bodies, skin color, and genders shift too.

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