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• Toscana/toscany

  
  Authspot — Authority: 574
  Tuscany or Toscana in Italian, is a region in the centre of Italy. Toscana is divided into 9 Province – Florence, Arezzo,  Image via Wikipedia , Grosseto, Pistoia, Lucca, Massa-Carrara, Pisa and Livorno. The Regional Administrative Centre is Florence. The population is roughly 3.8 million spread over ...
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• Three days in the Red Centre: Kata-Tjuta & Kings Canyon

  
  Itinerant Londoner — Authority: 117
  Uluru is the one that gets all the worldwide fame and attention, but even from the plane coming into the area, I could see that Kata Tjuta looked like it could be equally impressive. Whereas Uluru is a giant monolith, Kata Tjuta is a series of huge dome-shaped rocks that were formed around the same [...]
  18 hours ago

• Armenia, an ancient and beautiful country, hosts many UNESCO World Heritage sites

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 542
  During the World Travel Market (WTM), eTurboNews (eTN) visited the Armenia stand, where representatives from the Armenia Tourism Board, hotels, resorts, and Armenian tour operators were exhibiting to read more
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• Three days in the Red Centre: Uluru

  
  Itinerant Londoner — Authority: 117
  “Why would you want to go all that way just to look at a rock granny?”is apparently what the granddaughter of a Scottish woman I met on the way to Uluru said to her before she left home. I must admit I was worrying the same thing. After all, it’s a very long flight from [...]
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• Help save the Palestinian village of Lifta from total destruction

  
  Palestine Think Tank — Authority: 502
  Lifta, a most picturesque Palestinian village, lies on the slopes of West Jerusalem below the highway linking it to Tel-Aviv. It has been abandoned since the invading Hagana underground forces backed by the Stern Gang drove the last of its Palestinian inhabitants in 1948 during the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. It ...
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• Updates from Malacca

  
  justwandering.org — Authority: 121
  I’m writing this from my room at the Twenty Guesthouse in Malacca. Marvin highly recommends this place, so when I was making my reservations for this trip, I didn’t bother checking other places. It costs much more than other guesthouses I’ve stayed in, but it’s right smack in the middle of Jonker Walk, and ...
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• Photo of the Day (11.24.09)

  
  Gadling — Authority: 701
  Filed under: Photos , Europe , Russian Federation , Photo of the Day Todays photo of the day comes from San Francisco based photographer, kellinasf . I love this photo because its the conventional image of a beautiful landscape, and as one Flickr user comments, "looks like an image one would find in a ...
  6 days ago

• Ancient Buddhist caves under threat

  
  Gadling — Authority: 701
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Asia , India The Archaeological Survey of India has been struggling to control water damage to ancient Buddhist paintings in the Ajanta Caves in the state of Maharashtra. The 29 caves in this UNESCO World Heritage Site are decorated with sculptures and ...
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• Landscape Institute announces 2009 Awards

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 140
  Landscape Institute announced the 2009 Landscape Institute Awards recently with Gillespies winning the President’s Award for St Andrew Square in Edinburgh. The Peter Youngman Award which is awarded each year for outstanding contribution to landscape was awarded to the Olympic Delivery Authority for their visionary ...
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• Air Malta offers discounted fares for 2010

  
  The Latest Travel News and Information — Authority: 141
  Air Malta is now offering exceptional travel packages and fares for 2010 for as low as £79, including travel taxes and charges. All-inclusive round trip tickets on selected flights from London Gatwick to Malta between 8 January and 13 July next year currently cost £79. Meanwhile, spring break departures from ...
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• Send Me To Korea (7) : Sunrise Peak in Jeju Island

  
  VanillaSeven' Photography — Authority: 425
  Sunrise Peak or Seongsan Ilchubong is one of UNESCO Wold Heritage located at Jeju Island.  It is a volcanic crater with vertical cliffs rises up from the shore.  It was named “Sunrise Peak” because this area is the first to greet each day’s new sun.  To enjoy the beautiful sceneries we should climb to the top ...
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• Friday Link Love: The World in Lego, Secret Travel Tips and more

  
  NileGuidance: A Travel Blog — Authority: 126
  TGIF. Is the week before Thanksgiving always this long? Take a load off this weekend, and enjoy some of the interesting stuff going on around the travel web: How well do you know the flags of the world? Check out these 12 Awesome National Flags Made out of Food , from a basil, spaghetti and tomato Italy to a tuna ...
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• Will Varanasi and Sarnath join the World Heritage list?

  
  Gadling — Authority: 701
  Filed under: Activism , Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Asia , India Its World Heritage Week from November 19-25 and countries around the globe are celebrating the priceless treasures that UNESCO, which runs the list, is helping to preserve. But one country, India, is wondering why two of its most ...
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• New UK wind turbine policy threatens heritage sites

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 435
  Based from the recent energy plans unveiled by government ministers, wind turbines as high as 50ft can now be built on industrial estates and farmlands even without planning permission. Under the new policy, turbine installation in the UK’s countryside will be approved as long as they meet the minimum stipulated ...
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• The Little Train That Could...Be a World Heritage Site

  
  Intelligent Travel Blog — Authority: 135
  Friend of IT Melanie Mize Renzulli tells us about the "little engine that could" in Mumbai. Officials from UNESCO were recently in Matheran, a hillstation outside of Mumbai, to consider one of Indias latest nominees to theWorld Heritage list. Operating for over a century, save for yearly pausesduring ...
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• Compassion for Pompeiian Dogs Sparks New Project

  
  Roman Times — Authority: 92
  Although mosaics of ancient Pompeii proclaim the Roman equivalent of "Beware of Dog", I found the current canine residents of the remains of Pompeii to be rather docile creatures who prefer to snooze on the warm ancient paving stones of the archaeological site rather than chase away tourists. So, I was glad to read ...
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• The Knights Templar Castle in Tomar

  
  Trifter — Authority: 568
  The members of the Order of Temple helped the Portuguese fight the Moors in the XIIth and XIIth centuries. As a set-off against their effective aid, they received lands and acquired a certain political power. The soldier-monks built many castles, churches and towns in Portugal. In 1307, French King Philip IV the ...
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• Cut global emissions to save coral reefs

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Sydney, Nov 18 (IANS) The fabulously beautiful coral reefs might be lost forever unless global emissions are immediately slashed by 25 percent, below 2000 levels.This is the grim warning by some of the world’s foremost marine and environmental scientists who briefed MPs in Canberra. “The ‘outstanding universal ...
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• Stories in stone

  
  Itchy Feet — Authority: 116
  The story of Hampi is the story of stone. You disagree? You think it is sacrilege to reduce the heady might and valour of the Vijayanagara kings to the passivity of stone? Stone – inanimate, indifferent and cold? No, it is true. In Hampi, the stones tell you more interesting stories than your guide ever can (and ...
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• Chilling out in Melbourne

  
  Itinerant Londoner — Authority: 117
  On my previous two trips to Australia, I’d only made it to the East Coast states of Queensland & New South Wales, but I’d long heard from other friends who’d travelled to the country that Melbourne was easily their favourite cityAfter a hectic few months of travelling, I was really looking forward to ...
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