One of England's most venerable cities, CANTERBURY offers a rich slice through two thousand years of history, with Roman and early Christian ruins, a Norman castle, and a famous cathedral that dominates a medieval warren of time-skewed Tudor...
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As you travel from Sens towards Auxerre, the next place of any size on the Yonne is the modest town of JOIGNY , its elegant old houses ranged up the slope above the river. Its first fort was constructed here at the end of the tenth century,...
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HANNIBAL might well have been just another medium-sized river settlement, had not Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who renamed himself Mark Twain after the cry of pilots on the Mississippi, spent his boyhood here. Although Hannibal does have...
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