Arriving in ISTANBUL can come as a shock. Most visitors head for the old city in and around Sultanahmet , where though you're still technically in Europe, there are immediate differences: back streets teem with traders pushing...
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IOWA CITY , on I-80 55 miles west of the Mississippi, is refreshingly young at heart. The restored gold-domed Old Capitol is a reminder of its days as state capital, before government was transferred to the more central Des Moines....
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ARLES is a major town on the tourist circuit, its fame sealed by the extraordinarily well-preserved Roman arena, Les ArËnes , at the city's heart, and backed by an impressive variety of other stones and monuments, both Roman and medieval....
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