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Cordoba is a city in Andalusia that showcases to its tourists a whole world of striking and astounding history. Founded by the Romans, Cordoba became a port city of great importance, used for shipping Spanish olive oil, wine and wheat back to Ancient Rome. Due to its strategic importance as the highest navigable point of the Guadalquivir River, it was Europe’s largest city, a centre of learning and culture.

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Founded in the 11th century, Avila is a medieval city in western Spain, about 70 miles northwest of Madrid. Dates from pre-Roman times this old town has the best preserved medieval walls in Spain. With 82 semicircular towers and nine gates, the walls, surrounding the city, have a total length of 2.5 km and is on average 12 meters high. Ávila also has a magnificently historic cathedral, a number of Extra-Muros Churches, and an authentic medieval atmosphere. For all these reasons, the entire Old Town of Ávila has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

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Unlike much of Croatia, Sibenik was not founded until the 7th century by Croats. The town was inevitably tossed around between the country’s many successive invaders: Ottomans, Venetians, Hungarians, French and Austrians. Despite all this, and the heavy bombing during the Second World War, the old part of Sibenik has survived. The city boasts typically urban Croatian architecture – houses of pale stone and red-tiled roofs.

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Known as Tragyrion (island of goats) in the time of the Greeks, it became Tragurium under the Romans, finally ending up as Trogir with the Croats. This exquisite medieval city is certainly one of the highlights of the Dalmatian coast. Built on an island, but linked to the mainland by two bridges, it resembles a ship at anchor. The smell of spindrift fills the air, which in turn permeates the light Brac stone all around. 

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Far to the western reaches of Istria, the town of Porec, Croatia, lies on a peninsula and, from 1902 to 1935, was linked to Parenzana by a small railway line. First founded by the Romans in 129 BCE as a military camp, it had grown into a “municipium” known as Colonia Julia Parentium by the 1st century CE. The old town still retains the original cruciform street layout from those olden times, with a long central road, the “decumanus”, lying at right angles to another main road, the “cardo maximus”, off which run endless narrow lanes.

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Located on Museum Island, Berlin, the museum was opened in 1859. Designed by Friedrich August Stuler, it was one of the most ambitious building projects of its time due to its use of new industrial construction technologies such as the steam engine. Built in the neo-Classical style, the Neues museum suffered severe damage and partially destroyed in the Second World War in a series of massive bomb blasts during the bombing of Berlin. And it was closed in 1939.

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Founded in the 11th century by the Almoravids as a military settlement, Meknes became a capital of Morocco under Sultan Moulay Ismail (1672–1727. Located 130 km from the capital Rabat and 60 km from Fes, Meknes has been called the Versailles of Morocco, but the grand scheme for a royal palace was never completed. Today the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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 The wealth boutique hotel Palazzo Failla is found in the fascinating townspeople of Modica on the island of Island, Italy. Palazzo Failla is set in the humanities point of Modica Alta, next to two of the most attractive architectural examples in Modica, much as St. George Cathedral and the Castel of Counts. Palazzo Failla is a beautifully restored past structure in the Nonmodern accommodate of Modica, a UNESCO Class Attribute site.

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Located at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, in the centre of Romania,  Brasov is one of the largest and most charming cities of the country. Founded in 1211, it is one of the best preserved cities in all of Europe. Brasov is home to a very pointy Orthodox church and one of the narrowest streets in Europe. Called “the Prague of Transylvania”, the old city was thoroughly restored to the delight of an increasing number of tourists.

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Built on the banks of the Dender River, Aalst is a cosy provincial town in Belgium. The city is situated about 25 km from Brussels and 30 km from Ghent and many of its residents are commuters who work in the Brussels area. Historically the city was first mentioned in AD 840. In the Middle Ages, because of its location on the navigable Dender, Aalst quickly developed into the major center of the Flemish county of that name. Today, cotton processing, textile manufacture and flower growing are among the most important source of employment. Every day wholesalers gather to buy cut flowers at the modern flower market in Albrechtlaan.

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