CAHORS , on the River Lot, was the capital of the old province of Quercy. In its time, it has been a Gallic settlement; a Roman town; a briefly held Moorish possession; a town under English rule; a bastion of Catholicism in the Wars of Religion,...
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The southern coast of Finland is the most populated, industrialized and richest part of the country, with the densest concentration, not surprisingly, around the capital, HELSINKI . A city of half a million people, Helsinki is quite different...
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The regional service and ex-forestry town of CRANBROOK , despite a location that marks it out as a transport hub, is one of the most dismal in the province, its dreariness hardly redeemed by the surrounding high mountains. A strip of motels and...
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