Ullswater: The Lake District Water That Inspired a Famous Poem
Ullswater, the second-largest lake in England’s Lake District after Windermere, is widely credited as the setting that inspired William Wordsworth’s 1804 poem…
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Tuscany: The Region That Funded the Renaissance With Wool and Banking
Tuscany’s Renaissance flowering, centred substantially on Florence from the 14th to 16th centuries, was funded to a significant degree by the region’s…
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Israel: A Land Sacred to Three Faiths, Compressed Into a Small Territory
Israel occupies a genuinely small territory, roughly comparable in size to Wales or New Jersey, yet holds sites of central religious significance…
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The Great Sphinx: A Monument Buried Up to Its Neck for Centuries
The Great Sphinx of Giza, carved directly from a single mass of limestone bedrock, is generally believed by most Egyptologists to have…
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Belize: The Only Central American Nation That Speaks English
Belize, formerly known as British Honduras, remained a British colony until 1981, making it the last mainland territory in Central America to…
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Bormio: An Alpine Spa Town the Romans Soaked In First
Bormio’s natural thermal springs have drawn visitors since Roman times, ancient bathers making use of the same geothermally heated waters that still…
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Guatape: The Colombian Town Painted in Its Own Language
Guatape, a small town in Colombia’s Antioquia region, is known for its zocalos, brightly coloured relief panels decorating the lower half of…
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Port-au-Prince: A Capital Rebuilt Repeatedly From Earthquake and Fire
Port-au-Prince was founded by French colonists in 1749 and became the capital of Haiti following the Haitian Revolution of 1791 to 1804,…
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The Cayman Islands: A British Territory Built on Turtles, Then Banking
The Cayman Islands take their original name from the Taino word for the marine turtles that once swarmed the surrounding waters in…
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K’gari: An Island of Pure Sand Large Enough to Grow a Rainforest
K’gari, long known by the colonial name Fraser Island before Queensland officially restored its traditional Butchulla name in 2023, is the largest…
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Ninety Mile Beach: A New Zealand Shoreline That Isn’t Ninety Miles Long
Ninety Mile Beach, stretching along the western edge of New Zealand’s Far North peninsula, is in reality closer to 55 miles, or…
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Saint Moritz: The Resort That Hosted Two Winter Olympics, Decades Apart
Saint Moritz hosted the Winter Olympics twice, in 1928 and again in 1948, the latter making it the first city ever to…
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