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Charles III in Antigua and Barbuda: Two Islands, 365 Beaches, Pink Sand and a Dockyard Built by Enslaved Africans

A former British colony celebrates independence, and the guest is the British king. Behind the ad with a beach for...

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Düsseldorf for the Weekend: The World's Longest Bar, a Crooked Tower of Damp Wood and Europe's Third-Largest Japanese Community

A city 85% of which ended up as ash in the Second World War, and which today lives off beer...

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Procida Near Naples: The Island Pérez-Reverte Returned to After Two Decades, With a Former Prison on a Cliff and a Pastel Fishing Harbour

Half an hour by ferry from Naples, between the Capri and Ischia everyone knows about. This is where Pérez-Reverte brought...

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Seven Days and 34 Ports Along the Norwegian Coast: The Line That Set Out to Carry Mail in 1893 Is Now Called the World's Most Beautiful Voyage

Captain Richard With launched it with two nautical charts, so the north could survive the winter. Today, in autumn, the...

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Lionel Messi's Rosario: school number 66, the club where he started playing at four, and a 69-metre mural above the Paraná River

While collecting the Princess of Asturias Award in Oviedo, Messi once again said where home is. A route through La...

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Isolino San Giovanni on Lake Maggiore: The Borromeo Family's Private Islet, Closed to the Public, Where Beatrice Borromeo Married Pierre Casiraghi

A castle, then a monastery, then the summer house of the Count of Arona: the Borromeo family has held the...

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Pau Gasol in Costa Rica: a Hand Made of Coffee Trees, a White Buddha at Over 1,000 Metres and a Theatre Opened in 1897

He came for a forum and stayed for the coffee. A plantation, a theatre and an eight-course dinner - a...

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Heidelberg, Hansi Flick's Town: Germany's Oldest University, Castle Ruins Above the Neckar and a 10.5-Percent Beer

Barcelona's coach was born here, his wife 12 kilometres away. A town where one in four residents is a student,...

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Madrigal de las Altas Torres, the Village Where Isabella the Catholic Was Born: Mudéjar Walls 2.3 Kilometres Long and a Winery the Monks Built Almost Three Centuries Ago

Of 80 towers, just over twenty remain, the palace where the queen who sent Columbus was born is today a...

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Madonna della Corona Near Verona: a Sanctuary Built Into a Cliff at 774 Metres, Reached From the Valley by 1,860 Steps

Hermits, a legend about a statue that arrived from Rhodes and bus number 499. One of the most unusual places...

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Perućica near Sutjeska is one of Europe's last primeval forests: seven forests that look otherworldly in autumn

One of the wildest isn't in Scandinavia but in the Balkans: Perućica in Bosnia, with trees taller than 50 metres...

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For one week Rome puts contemporary art ahead of Caravaggio: Rome Art Week runs 19 to 25 October, free, across the city's neighbourhoods

Galleries in former factories, the pope as a pop icon and Keith Haring in a palazzo. Entry is free, and...

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