First impressions don't do much at all for CATANIA , on an initial encounter possibly the island's gloomiest spot. Built from black-grey volcanic stone, its central streets can feel suffocating, dark with the shadows of grimy, high Baroque...
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Despite its imposing setting at the point where the Nahe joins the Rhine, BINGEN is generally regarded as something of a poor relation of R¸desheim on the latter's opposite bank. Nonetheless, its star has been in the ascendant of late because...
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Twenty kilometres south of Salzburg and served by regular bus and train services, the market town of HALLEIN has been synonymous with the salt trade since the sixth century BC. Celts from Hallstatt in the Salzkammergut opened up...
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