COMO can be a dispiriting place to arrive, with none of the picture-postcard prettiness you may be expecting from a lakeside town. As the nearest resort to Milan and a popular stopoff on the main road into Switzerland, it's both heavily touristed -...
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EDENTON , set along a beautiful, placid Albemarle Sound waterfront roughly forty miles south of the Virginia border, was established as North Carolina's first state capital in 1722. A major center of unrest in the American Revolution, it...
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CANELA , 8km east of Gramado, down a road bordered on both sides by hydrangeas, is slightly lower, smaller and less commercialized, but otherwise, it's much like its neighbour. Canela offers little of particular beauty within its small urban area,...
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