With both a gigantic river-port on the Rhine - Switzerland's only outlet to the sea - and the research headquarters of several pharmaceutical multinationals, BASEL (B‚le in French), nurtures a reputation as Switzerland's wealthiest city. Its...
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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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At one time a byword for splendour, with a population of several hundred thousand, Goa's erstwhile capital, OLD GOA , was virtually abandoned following malaria and cholera epidemics that plagued the city from the seventeenth century onwards....
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