Nevis' small capital, captivating CHARLESTOWN , boasts an impeccable assemblage of gingerbread-trimmed skirt-and-blouse houses , in keeping with residents' resolutely old-fashioned attitudes. These traditional attitudes can also be...
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Until the mid-nineteenth century, GROSSETO was a malaria-ridden backwater. The draining of the marshes, however, which was finally effected under Mussolini, has transformed it into a provincial capital for the Maremma. Grosseto was rebuilt...
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There is something very surreal about emerging from the BriËre to the coast at LA BAULE - an imposing, moneyed landscape where the dunes are no longer bonded together with scrub and pines, but with massive apartment buildings and luxury...
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