Lesser-known places, events, trails, and historical sites
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Ulva is a small island in Scotland's Inner Hebrides that has undergone significant transformation following a historic community buyout. Once home to …
Coccium is a Roman auxiliary fort site in Greater Manchester that served as a military installation during the Roman occupation of Britannia. Establis…
The Via Alpina Yellow Trail segment from Rifugio G. Pelizzo to Montemaggiore is a hiking route in northeastern Italy's Alpine region that forms part o…
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The Pont romain à Vaison-la-Romaine is a Roman bridge in southern France that spans the Ouvèze River with a single semi-circular arch. Constructed dur…
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The Via Alpina Blue Trail segment from Col de Turini to Sospel is a high Alpine hiking route in the Alpes-Maritimes region of southeastern France that…
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Choirokoitia (also spelled Khirokitia) is one of the most significant Neolithic archaeological sites in the eastern Mediterranean. Occupied from appro…
The Blue Trail is a long-distance hiking route within the Via Alpina network that spans the Western Alps from near Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in Italy to So…
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The Stein Salon is a modernist gathering space in Paris that functioned as a nexus for avant-garde artists and writers during the early twentieth cent…
Musée Le Secq des Tournelles is a wrought iron museum housed in the former Church of Saint-Laurent, a 16th-century Gothic structure in central Rouen. …
Brough of Birsey is an archaeological site on a tidal island in Orkney that contains layered evidence of Norse and medieval occupation spanning over 6…
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Vienna-Brigantione is a Roman settlement in the Dauphiné region of eastern France that reveals patterns of secondary urban development in the Rhône va…
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Pyramiden is an abandoned coal mining settlement on the Svalbard archipelago that served as a Soviet Arctic outpost from 1927 to 1998. Founded after S…
Fabrateria Nova is a Roman settlement in the Liri Valley that hosted one of several provincial amphitheatres built during the early imperial period. T…