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Around 1.1 million litres of 46-degree water rise through Bath's Roman baths every day, heated deep underground and falling as rain thousands of years ago.
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Bath, England · Europe
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Cornish died out as a community language in the 18th century and has since been revived, with road signs and schools bringing it back.
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Cornwall, England · Europe
External reference (site language): Cornwall College, England ↗
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When Street View cars skipped the islands, locals strapped cameras to sheep and mapped the roads themselves in a campaign called Sheep View.
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Faroe Islands · Europe
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The Greenland ice sheet averages about 1.5 kilometres thick and presses the island's bedrock down below sea level in places.
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Greenland · The Americas
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Andorra has no airport or railway station. Everyone arrives by road through the Pyrenees, which is part of the charm.
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Andorra · Europe
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Monaco covers about two square kilometres, and much of its newest land was reclaimed from the Mediterranean.
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Monaco · Europe
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Traffic on Winston Churchill Avenue stops every time a plane lands, because the road runs straight across the airport runway.
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Gibraltar · Europe
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Derinkuyu descends eighteen levels and could shelter around 20,000 people with livestock, wine presses and ventilation shafts.
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Derinkuyu, Turkey · Asia
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Istanbul is the only major city built across two continents, with commuters crossing between Europe and Asia by ferry every morning.
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Istanbul, Turkey · Asia
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Volcanic tuff in Cappadocia is soft when freshly cut and hardens in air, which is why entire churches and hotels are carved into the cliffs.
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Cappadocia, Turkey · Asia
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Calcium-rich hot springs have built white travertine terraces down the hillside at Pamukkale over thousands of years.
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Pamukkale, Turkey · Asia
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Nicosia is the last divided capital in Europe, split by a buffer zone patrolled by United Nations peacekeepers since 1974.
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Nicosia, Cyprus · Europe
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Sobrino de Botin has served roast suckling pig continuously since 1725 and still uses its original wood-fired oven.
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Madrid, Spain · Europe
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The Alps grow roughly a millimetre or two a year as Africa pushes into Europe, though erosion removes almost as much.
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Alps · Europe
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The Danube touches or crosses ten countries and four capital cities, more than any other river on Earth.
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Danube · Europe
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The Samaria Gorge runs sixteen kilometres to the Libyan Sea and narrows to just four metres at the famous Iron Gates.
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Samaria, Greece · Europe
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There is no single Camino. Pilgrims walk from France, Portugal, Seville or their own front door, all converging on Santiago de Compostela.
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Camino de Santiago · Europe
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Aurora hunting works best between September and March under clear skies far from town lights, and even then patience matters more than equipment.
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Lapland · Europe
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Above the Arctic Circle the sun stays above the horizon for weeks in summer, and locals often play football at two in the morning.
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Nordkapp, Norway · Europe
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Salt has been mined at Hallstatt for around 7,000 years, and the world's oldest wooden staircase was found preserved in the shafts.
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Hallstatt, Austria · Europe
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Quinta da Regaleira hides an initiation well, a spiral staircase that descends 27 metres into the earth instead of rising.
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Sintra, Portugal · Europe
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Bruges lost its sea access when its channel silted up in the 1500s, and the resulting poverty accidentally preserved its medieval centre.
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Bruges, Belgium · Europe
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Ghent removed through traffic from its historic core, and shop revenue and cycling both rose in the years afterwards.
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Ghent, Belgium · Europe
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Tallinn kept most of its medieval walls and 20 defensive towers, one of the best-preserved Hanseatic centres in northern Europe.
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Tallinn, Estonia · Europe
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