Situated at a major crossroads on the plateau, CHAMPAGNOLE , an industrial town largely rebuilt after a major fire in 1798, holds little intrinsic interest for the passing visitor, with the exception of an archeological museum , 26...
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GLEN INNES is a pleasant town in a beautiful setting. Although agriculture is still important up here, you begin to see more and more evidence of the gemfields - sapphires are big business, as, to a lesser extent, is tin mining. In the centre, on...
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AGEN , capital of the Lot-et-Garonne dÈpartement , is a pleasanter town than it first appears. It was quartered by modern boulevards in the nineteenth century in its own version of a Haussmann clean-up, and it is down these roads that...
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