Seen from the water, CALVI is a beautiful spectacle, with its three immense bastions topped by a crest of ochre buildings, sharply defined against a hazy backdrop of snow-capped mountains. Twenty kilometres west along the coast from L'Œle...
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AGEN , capital of the Lot-et-Garonne dÈpartement , is a pleasanter town than it first appears. It was quartered by modern boulevards in the nineteenth century in its own version of a Haussmann clean-up, and it is down these roads that...
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At the southern end of the Spreewald stands COTTBUS , formerly the capital of one of the three Bezirke into which Brandenburg was divided in GDR days. It has a long industrial tradition, the twin pillars of the local economy being...
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