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UNESCO Protected a Village Because of Two Colours: The White and Blue of Sidi Bou Said Were Prescribed by a British Baron in 1915

Twenty kilometres from the Tunisian capital, the most photographed village in the country. The aesthetic the world now protects was...

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The Village That Entered UNESCO Because of a 1915 Colour Decree: White and Exactly One Shade of Blue

A British baron wrote the rule a century ago: facades white, doors and windows cobalt blue only. Not one owner...

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The island where a queen hid and Hendrix played for the last time: 113 kilometres of coastal path and dinosaur bones on the beach

The world's only scheduled hovercraft service still runs there. Victoria called it her little paradise, so did Marx, and in...

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Coming back from Greece: the wait at Bogorodica by the hour, from 14 to 67 minutes

Eight days of measurements at the crossing into Macedonia show the hour you leave changes more than anything else. Between...

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The town that invented summer: how one French coast taught the world that a story sells for more than square metres

Hemingway, Picasso and Fitzgerald did not come on holiday - they came to live there for a season. Everyone copied...

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Bogorodica in the morning: the queue grew eightfold before six

Three cars at midnight, twenty-nine at six in the morning. That same morning Medzitlija was empty, and the hour you...

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A Village Carved Into Living Rock With an Eight-Room Hotel: Peratallada Survived Eight Centuries Without Becoming a Theme Park

The moat around the village was not banked up but cut out of the stone. The shape stayed because for...

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23 Lakes Where Coal Used to Be Dug: Germany Turned the Holes Industry Left Behind Into a Tourist Destination

Two billion tonnes of coal taken out of the ground, and today they call the water the German Lake Como....

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The Greek border live: three crossings, an hour-by-hour clock and a seven-day forecast

Bogorodica, Medzitlija and Star Dojran in one place - live cameras, queues hour by hour, and a forecast for the...

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1,190 islands two metres above the sea: the Maldives sells the view, and the real attraction is underneath it

Of a thousand islands, only around a hundred have a single hotel each. There is another Maldives too - fishing...

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The Village on a Cliff Above the Atlantic Whose Beaches You Reach on Foot, Not by Car: The Last Secret of the Portuguese Coast

White houses with blue trim glued above the ocean, and beaches connected by an 18.5-kilometre trail instead of a car...

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A Greek Island Without a Single Car: You Reach the Furthest Corner by Donkey, Boat or on Foot

Eleven walking trails, eighty kilometres, and one staircase of six hundred steps that a local shepherd spent ten years carving....

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