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Fazenda Nova, Portugal

Laura Ashley is celebrating its 60th birthday by looking back to the 1970s. It couldn’t have come at a better time. Patterns, florals and faux Victoriana are big again, says Trish Lorenz

First seen as part of a 1912 double bill, Ariadne auf Naxos was revised and reshaped as Europe plunged into the carnage of the First World War. Strauss was profoundly relieved when his son, Franz, was declared unfit for military service. But his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, had already served as a reservist when the now familiar version of their backstage comedy on high and low art premiered in Vienna in 1916, four days after the assassination of the prime minister in the dining room of a hotel a few minutes' walk from the opera house.

Eerie images have captured a deserted village once dubbed the “real life Atlantis” after it spent over 25 years under water.

Tests shows 22-year-old and boyfriend drowned at hotel but what happened is a mystery

Staff dived into the water to save them but they could not be resuscitated

The Big Six: from clifftop locations to freshwater pools and rustic interiors

Private reserves, colourful casitas and boutique retreats

Rising problem of online fraud sees thousands of tourists paying for fake hotels, flights and trips

A second home in the country is a luxury the French can no longer afford - cue an invasion of British bargain hunters?

The many lives of a country house that spans the centuries

Before becoming Pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio won the hearts of the slum people ministering to the poor and sick

'I've promised myself I'll meet Mickey'