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Sveti Stefan: The Tiny Montenegrin Island That Once Hosted Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor

A 15th-century fishing village turned state-run resort in Tito's Yugoslavia, the tied island of Sveti Stefan drew Hollywood royalty in the 1960s and now operates as a single Aman hotel on Montenegro's Budva Riviera.

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English Harbour, Antigua: The Caribbean's Quiet Old-Money Yachting Base

Built around Nelson's Dockyard, a restored Georgian-era naval base, English Harbour has been the Caribbean's premier superyacht anchorage for decades, drawing a wealthy sailing crowd for its annual regattas rather than its nightlife.

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Why Deauville Has Been Old Money's Favourite Norman Seaside Town Since the 1860s

Built as a planned resort by Napoleon III's half-brother in the 1860s, Deauville has drawn French aristocracy, Coco Chanel and, since 1975, Hollywood's film-festival crowd to its boardwalk, casino and racecourses.

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Cap d'Antibes Has Been the Riviera's Quietest Old-Money Address Since the 1920s

Wooded and residential rather than glamorous in the Cannes or Monaco sense, Cap d'Antibes has drawn a quieter kind of old money since Gerald and Sara Murphy's 1920s villa parties helped inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night.

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Courchevel 1850 Is Where Old Money and New Money Ski Side by Side

The highest and most exclusive of Courchevel's five villages, Courchevel 1850 pairs its own private airstrip with the Trois Vallées, the world's largest linked ski area, and a long-running reputation as one of the Alps' most expensive addresses.

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Jackson Hole Has Been Quietly Old Money Since a Rockefeller Bought Up the Valley

Grand Teton National Park exists in close to its current form because John D. Rockefeller Jr. spent decades quietly buying up the valley floor beneath it, a history that still shapes Jackson Hole's exclusivity today.

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Klosters Has Been the British Royal Family's Quiet Ski Retreat for Decades

Overshadowed by its larger neighbour Davos, the Swiss village of Klosters became the British royal family's preferred winter retreat from the late 1970s onward, a low-key alternative to St Moritz or Gstaad.

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Nantucket Went From Whaling Capital to New England's Quietest Old-Money Island

Once the world's busiest whaling port, Nantucket's 19th-century economic collapse froze its cobbled streets and grey-shingled cottages in place, which is exactly what later turned it into one of New England's most exclusive summer islands.

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Biarritz Is Where European Old Money Discovered the Atlantic

A Basque fishing village turned imperial resort after Empress Eugénie built her seaside villa there in 1855, Biarritz spent the Belle Époque as a magnet for European royalty and still carries that history in its grand hotels.

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Lyford Cay Has Been the Bahamas' Most Private Address Since a Canadian Brewing Heir Built It in 1959

A gated peninsula at the western tip of New Providence, Lyford Cay was developed from 1959 by Canadian businessman E. P. Taylor and has stayed one of the Bahamas' most closely guarded private communities ever since.

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The Bush Family Made Kennebunkport New England's Quietest Old-Money Retreat

A shipbuilding town turned summer colony since the 19th century, Kennebunkport's low-key reputation owes much to the Bush family's Walker's Point compound, a private oceanfront estate that has hosted a sitting president's summers since the 1980s.

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The Hamptons Have Been New York's Old-Money Summer Address Since the 1870s

Long before hedge-fund money and celebrity real estate made headlines, Southampton's whaling-era estates and one of America's founding golf clubs had already made the Hamptons New York society's default summer retreat.