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This small, elegant country chateau is more than 200 years old and stands in a quiet valley through the Pyrenees, among flower meadows, wooded hills and tree-shaded brook. In front of the house is a clear lake where the dragonflies hover and deer drink. It is also perfect for a cooling dip.
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The Ravello Festival is an annual summer music and arts festival that takes place primarily on the beautiful grounds of the Villa Rufolo in Ravello every summer. Ravello Festival organises classical music performances in the town’s churches, gardens and piazzas.
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Hotel Angelo Engel is located in the heart of the South Tyrolean Dolomites, with its extensive 2500 m² garden and beautiful view.  The town is only a five minute walk from the hotel.
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The Lloyd Hotel is a Dutch hotel centrally situated in the fashionable heart of Amsterdam’s Eastern Docklands Area. This is a very unique hotel located right on the water and close to the Tram train.
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St. Michaelis church, built from 1751 – 1762, is not only the most important baroque church building in northern Germany but also features the biggest German church clock. The circumferential measurements of the dial amount to more than 24 meters.
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The Chocolate Museum is a “delicious” museum in Barcelona, Spain. The museum has been built on the initiative of the Barcelona Confectionery Guild and is located in the very centre of the town. The museum exhibits a large collection of intricately carved sculptures made out of chocolate along with examples of traditional machinery that was formerly used to make chocolate during the past years. There are also activities and visits organized every week (high season only) inside the museum.
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Svinafellsjokull, is one of the many outlet glaciers of the massive Vatnajokull glacier, Earth’s third-largest. The ice that feeds Svinafellsjokull comes spilling down from Iceland’s high interior in an icefall that riddles it with deep and sometimes treacherous fissures called crevasses.
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