BRIVE-LA-GAILLARDE is a major rail junction and the nearest thing to an industrial centre for miles around, but it makes an agreeable base for exploring the CorrËze dÈpartement and its beautiful villages, as well as the upper reaches of...
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Picturesque little OBERNAI , on the D422, is the first place most people head for when travelling south along the route from Strasbourg. Miraculously unscathed during the last two world wars, Obernai has retained almost its entire rampart...
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There's little evidence to show that the site of CHANGSHA , Hunan's tidy, nondescript capital, has been inhabited for three thousand years, but it has long been an important river town and, prior to Qin invasions in 280 BC, was the southern...
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