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Surveyors remeasure Mont Blanc every two years because its ice cap gains and loses metres, so the official summit height keeps shifting.
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Chamonix, France · Europe
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The long midday break is mostly a rural and small-town tradition now; most Spanish office workers take a short lunch and finish late instead.
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Spain · Europe
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A coffee at the bar cost one euro and took ninety seconds. Sitting at the table cost three times as much. The barman explained this as if it were a law of physics.
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Naples, Italy · Europe
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The Sagrada Familia has been under construction since 1882, funded almost entirely by donations and ticket sales rather than public money.
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Barcelona, Spain · Europe
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We followed a map for eleven minutes and arrived at a wall of canal with no bridge. A woman leaning out of a window above us laughed, pointed backwards, and held up four fingers. Four turns later we were at the restaurant.
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Venice, Italy · Europe
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Every August the town of Bunol throws about 150 tonnes of overripe tomatoes in La Tomatina, followed by a hose-down of the whole main street.
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Bunol, Spain · Europe
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Bertrand in Lisbon's Chiado district has been selling books since 1732 and holds the record as the oldest bookshop still trading.
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Lisbon, Portugal · Europe
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It snowed in Rome for two hours one February morning. The Forum went white, every phone in the city came out at once, and by lunchtime it was gone as if the city had imagined it.
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Rome, Italy · Europe
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Port wine takes its name from the city, though the grapes grow upriver in the terraced Douro Valley, the world's oldest demarcated wine region.
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Porto, Portugal · Europe
External reference (site language): FC Porto ↗
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Italy holds more UNESCO World Heritage sites than any other country, ranging from Roman ruins to entire mountain villages.
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Italy · Europe
External reference (site language): List of World Heritage Sites in Italy ↗
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The gorge trail was closed and we sat at the gate feeling defeated. A shepherd walked past with eleven goats, looked at our boots, and gestured for us to follow. His shortcut took two hours and involved no path at all.
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Crete, Greece · Europe
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Around a million euros in coins is fished out of the Trevi Fountain each year and donated to charity.
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Rome, Italy · Europe
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Venice stands on millions of alder logs driven into the lagoon mud. Starved of oxygen, the wood petrified instead of rotting.
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Venice, Italy · Europe
External reference (site language): Venice Lido ↗
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We slept on the deck under jackets because the cabins were sold out. At four in the morning the engines changed pitch and everyone woke to see an island appear out of the dark, one white line at a time.
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Cyclades, Greece · Europe
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After more than 250 years of excavation, roughly a third of Pompeii remains buried, deliberately left for future archaeologists with better tools.
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Pompeii, Italy · Europe
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The bus stopped at a checkpoint that did not appear on any map we had. It took two hours, three stamps and one shared cigarette between drivers before we crossed into a country whose name had changed twice in thirty years.
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Balkans · Europe
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San Marino claims a continuous republican government since the year 301, making it the world's oldest surviving sovereign republic.
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San Marino · Europe
External reference (site language): Flag of San Marino ↗
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At 0.49 square kilometres, the Vatican is smaller than many city parks, yet it has its own post office, pharmacy and railway station.
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Vatican City · Europe
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We asked for directions and were invited for coffee. Halfway through, someone mentioned our host had been mayor for eight years. He was more interested in explaining lake trout than politics.
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Ohrid, North Macedonia · Europe
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Malta kept left-hand driving from its British era, one of only a handful of European countries to do so alongside Ireland and Cyprus.
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Malta · Europe
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Greece has around 6,000 islands and islets, but only about 200 of them are inhabited.
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Greece · Europe
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A young man stood on the parapet for eleven minutes collecting coins before he jumped. Someone in the crowd explained that he would not go until the collection reached a certain amount, and that this had been the rule for centuries.
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Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina · Europe
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Santorini's red, black and white beaches come from a single enormous eruption around 1600 BC that blew the island's centre into the sea.
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Santorini, Greece · Europe
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The marathon distance commemorates a messenger's run from the plain of Marathon to Athens, and the modern race was revived at the 1896 Olympics.
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Athens, Greece · Europe
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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