Sixty kilometres from Berlin, on the main rail line to the Polish city of Szczecin, is the tiny village of CHORIN . Alight at Bahnhof Kloster Chorin, the first of the two train stations, to see the evocatively ruined Cistercian Kloster ...
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BAYEUX , with its perfectly preserved medieval ensemble, magnificent cathedral and world-famous tapestry, is 23km west of Caen - a mere twenty-minute train ride. It's a smaller and much more intimate city, and, despite the large crowds of summer...
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The ancient walled city of GIRONA - an hour and twenty minutes by bus or train from Barcelona - stands on a fortress-like hill, high above the River Onyar. It's been fought over in almost every century since it was the Roman fortress of...
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