Le cool is an independent publishing company based in

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, Spain. Founded in 2003 by Swedish emigrant René Lönngren, the company publishes content concerning unusual events and places within European cities. Its main products are weekly

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detailing cultural activities under the name ''le cool magazine'' and a series of ''Weird and Wonderful Guides'' to five cities in Europe. It also produces publications for clients, including the inflight magazine ''Ling'' for the Spanish airline

Vueling Vueling S.A. is a Spanish low-cost airline based at El Prat de Llobregat in Greater Barcelona with hubs at Barcelona–El Prat Airport (main), Paris-Orly Airport in Paris, France and Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy (second ...

, which won a gold medal in the 2008 awards of the American-based Society of Publication Designers. Le cool sends weekly emails to around 200,000 subscribers in nine European cities (

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 c ...

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, Lisbon,

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

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and

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) and published a guidebook to Barcelona in 2006 and to Amsterdam, Lisbon, London and Madrid in 2008. Its guidebook series is unusual for the quality of its design, in particular for working with local designers in each city. The editor of le cool's London email magazine and guidebook,

Mat Osman Mathew David Osman (born 9 October 1967) is an English musician and author, best known as the bassist in the rock band Suede. Osman and singer Brett Anderson are the only remaining founding members left in Suede, and along with the drummer Si ...

, is the bass guitarist in

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. Le Cool has expanded to include the Le Cool Agency, a content agency that helps agencies and their clients to connect better with their customers through supporting their communication with great content.

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External links

le cool home page

le cool guidebooks
2003 establishments in Spain Mass media in Barcelona Publishing companies of Spain Publishing companies established in 2003