Why Palm Springs should be on your travel bucket list
24 February, 2019
Many people didn’t know much about Palm Springs until the Coachella music festival put it
on the map — the Californian desert becomes the hottest place on earth each April as Instagram clogs with photos of influencers throwing peace signs at pool parties with palm trees swaying in the background.
But if your days of wandering around in the dust wearing a crop-top are behind you, thankfully there’s a whole other side to the greater Palm Springs area. And it’s terribly appealing.
As well as doing my own on-the-ground research, I asked some of Palm Springs’ most well-connected residents for their insider secrets.
Architecture so beautiful it will give you heart pangs
In the mid-20th century, a gaggle of wealthy celebs like Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin commissioned homes in the desert oasis to escape life in Los Angeles (which is about a 3-hour drive down the road).
As a result Palm Springs now boasts one of the most stunning displays of modernist architecture in the world.
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