BIRR is a perfect example of a mid-sized town planned round a great house - in this case, Birr Castle, home of the Parsons family (the town used to be known as Parsonstown), later elevated to the Earls of Rosse. Here, eighteenth-century urban...
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Massive development in recent years has seen the once pretty fishing village of PORT DOUGLAS , an hour north of Cairns, turned into an upmarket tourist attraction, with a main street full of boutiques, shopping malls and holidaying hordes....
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The district capital, ¡YIOS YERMAN”S proves a surprisingly large village of tile-roofed houses, overlooking a patch of Meg·li PrÈspa in the distance. It's worth making the trip up just to see two tiny late Byzantine churches, whose...
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