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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
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
In its narrowest definition, a flaneur is simply someone who wanders.
—Anandi Mishra, The Atlantic, 30 July 2022
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
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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
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
In its narrowest definition, a flaneur is simply someone who wanders.
—Anandi Mishra, The Atlantic, 30 July 2022
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
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“Flaneur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaneur. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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