Rising from the Île de la Cité at the very heart of Paris, Notre-Dame is one of the world’s greatest cathedrals and a masterpiece of French Gothic architecture. For over

Famous for its pastel townhouses, the Portobello Road market, and a carnival like no other, Notting Hill is one of London’s prettiest and most relaxed neighborhoods. It is largely residential,

With its rows of candy-colored houses, its famous market, and a film named after it, Notting Hill is one of west London’s most photogenic and beloved neighborhoods. Elegant yet relaxed,

In the tremendous gorge of the Nu river, the stream the Chinese call the Angry River, in the far northwest of Yunnan near the borders of Burma and Tibet, live

Upstream of Egypt, between the granite cataracts of the middle Nile, lives a people whose kingdoms once conquered the pharaohs and whose villages now lie partly under a lake bearing

Many of the castles in this series are fairy tales, romantic fantasies built or rebuilt in the nineteenth century to look the way we imagine castles should look. The Imperial

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Obruk Plateau is a completely untouched plateau located on both sides of the road at the 5th kilometer of Adana Tufanbeyli highway. Arable areas surrounded by juniper, larch, cedar trees

Across the sunlit south of France, from the Atlantic to the Alps and the Mediterranean, live the Occitans, a people defined not by a state but by a language, the

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