Museums are closed, cinemas too. Travelling is hardly possible these days. Do you also feel the need to take an intensive, enjoyable or entertaining look at design or architecture? Would you like to experience something new or refresh your memory?

Our cities should become greener again. Not only are many city governments actively working towards this goal, but in many cities neighbourhood residents are joining forces to cultivate community gardens. In addition to flowers, they also grow vegetables there – for their own consumption or for sale in the neighbourhood. A project in Paris, however, is now going beyond all bounds.

luxurydefined, the online magazine of Christie’s International Real Estate, presents six winter destinations in private accommodations that you can’t just dream about. Let the patient planet slowly tilt its northern faces back to warmer days and ways.