The ‘beautiful and brutal’ 116km race is the latest addition to the growing roster of ultra-marathons

A glass motorcycle garage on deck? Of course, sir... Simon Usborne shadows the dealmakers at the Cannes Yachting Festival

As the sport is promoted to the Olympics, William Leith travels to Sweden to watch the first ‘park terrain’ world championships

With everything from Michelin-starred restaurants to beachside fish shacks, this year’s ‘European Region of Gastronomy’ is the ideal setting for a gourmet road trip

The Italian city of Matera stands in for ancient Jerusalem in the latest film version

A week-long ride across Sicily culminates with an ascent of Europe’s tallest active volcano

A growing number of castles are welcoming guests, as self-catering holiday lets, hotels or even bed and breakfasts

The smallest and least visited of Spain’s Balearic islands now has somewhere to stay

Complete with inflatables, the French capital’s OFF Paris Seine leaves the FT columnist in high spirits

A pilgrimage across north-west Spain to try one of its most-feted delicacies: the octopus

The party Mecca in Spain’s Balearic Islands finds itself at a crossroads

The InterContinental hotel is offering wealthy art fans a unique private view — a champagne reception for two in Francis Bacon’s studio

Pamela Goodman takes the gentler alternative to ‘Europe’s toughest trek’ along one of the island’s coast-to-coast long-distance trails

Close to Portofino but blissfully quiet, the Landmark Trust’s latest property offers a unique retreat

Lamborghini has relaunched its museum to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the world’s first ‘supercar’

Tourists flock to Santorini and Mykonos, but this nearby island remains a little-visited treat

Twenty years after he reported on the Troubles, Martin Fletcher returns to Northern Ireland to enjoy country lanes, cliffs and castles on a 200-mile cycle along the Antrim coast

A parade by the Afro-Turk community, the Dana Bayram festival celebrates a shared heritage lost in a history of oppression

The small Scottish island that inspired JM Barrie offers a fairy-tale escape from politics, phones and other people

The Orient Express returns — for two months of gastronomic evening trips from Paris and Bordeaux

It is a Christian festival with pagan roots and a bizarre climax: a man dressed as the devil leaping over rows of babies

After a four-year, €400m refurbishment, the city’s grandest dame has reopened. Adam Thomson gets an early look

A new €81m museum is designed to cement Bordeaux’s position as the world capital of wine

A new trip offers the chance to see the age-old ‘almadraba’ tuna hunt up close — and to feast on the catch

The village of Durbach is home to almost 300 distilleries — one for every 13 residents