Clustered on a small flat shelf base of immense cliffs beside a deep harbour, GARACHICO was, along with La Laguna and La Orotava, one of the first crop of important towns on the island. The town's narrow cobbled streets, rough fisherman's...
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The sheer amount of well-preserved eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture lining King Street, which extends a good half-mile up from the Potomac, and its cross streets, makes ALEXANDRIA a must, especially for those who are staying in...
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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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