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San Juan, Puerto Rico With its blue cobblestoned streets and homes splashed with cheery pastel colors, Old San Juan is a flaneur’s paradise.
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Amanda Eyre Ward, Bon Appétit, 19 Mar. 2025
Paris, city of the flaneur, who walks, will soon stand out as the city of the baigneur, who swims.
—Amy Verner, Vogue, 17 July 2024
The image in my mind just changed—from the rugged rule-breaker on the road to the flaneur, the person with the time to amble around the city at leisure.
—Ruthie Ackerman, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
But the hotel offers plenty of alternatives to dropping your euros, including a Dior spa, a calming pool, and a ground-floor terrace bar for prime flaneur-watching, all designed by LVMH favorite Peter Marino and realized by his squad of about 600 French artisans.
—Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Dec. 2021
These best-selling books display the trenchant wit of a flaneur strolling through Babylon.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
Some visitors, happily aware that there’s a flaneur’s funhouse—the visual onslaught of SoHo—just beyond the doors of the Drawing Center, will be primed to experience the show as one more twist in the contemporary spectacle.
—Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
Being a flaneur suggests also a freedom—to roam, to go in whichever direction one chooses, unencumbered by the authorities.
—Anandi Mishra, The Atlantic, 30 July 2022
In its narrowest definition, a flaneur is simply someone who wanders.
—Anandi Mishra, The Atlantic, 30 July 2022
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Amanda Eyre Ward, Bon Appétit, 19 Mar. 2025
Paris, city of the flaneur, who walks, will soon stand out as the city of the baigneur, who swims.
—Amy Verner, Vogue, 17 July 2024
The image in my mind just changed—from the rugged rule-breaker on the road to the flaneur, the person with the time to amble around the city at leisure.
—Ruthie Ackerman, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
But the hotel offers plenty of alternatives to dropping your euros, including a Dior spa, a calming pool, and a ground-floor terrace bar for prime flaneur-watching, all designed by LVMH favorite Peter Marino and realized by his squad of about 600 French artisans.
—Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Dec. 2021
These best-selling books display the trenchant wit of a flaneur strolling through Babylon.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
Some visitors, happily aware that there’s a flaneur’s funhouse—the visual onslaught of SoHo—just beyond the doors of the Drawing Center, will be primed to experience the show as one more twist in the contemporary spectacle.
—Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
Being a flaneur suggests also a freedom—to roam, to go in whichever direction one chooses, unencumbered by the authorities.
—Anandi Mishra, The Atlantic, 30 July 2022
In its narrowest definition, a flaneur is simply someone who wanders.
—Anandi Mishra, The Atlantic, 30 July 2022
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“Flaneur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaneur. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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