Portugals second largest city is known all over the world for its port wine, which is exported world wide.

Nestling in a deep gorge at the point where the River Duoro enters the Atlantic, Oporto is unbelievable picturesque particularly when viewed from the river, its UNESCO protected Old ... Click to read the article details

Whoever you are, wherever you arere from, well welcome you with true Southern hospitality, just as we've been welcoming guests since 1733.

Hip and historic, robust and refined, Savannah is where you'll find amazing architecture, spooky cemeteries and rich history along with global ... Click to read the article details

Pensacola, Florida has had a rich and colorful history dating nearly 450 years, being the first settlement in the continental United States in the year 1559, and controlled by five countries.

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Wolverhampton is located in the West Midlands. The city is a university city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. It is one of Britain's newest cities.

People from Wolverhampton are known as Wulfrunians. Within the city are also many miles of canal network, the ... Click to read the article details

Wuhan is known as the Yellow Crane and Homeland of White Clouds and is one of Chinas largest cities. The city of is made up of Hankou, Hanyang, and Wuchang, and are the three towns of Wuhan.

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Windermere is a town in Cumbria, England, in the historic county of Westmorland. It lies about one kilometre away from the lake of the same name.

The town of Windermere grew around the railway station, about a mile and a half from the lake. The village was originally called Birthwaite, ... Click to read the article details

Winnipeg is the largest city and capital of the province of Manitoba.The city is located near centre of North America. It lies in close proximity to hundreds of lakes including Lake Winnipeg, Canada's fifth largest lake. The city has been the gateway to the prairies since 1873.

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Valletta, is Maltas capital. It is the smallest capital of the European Union, is now the islands financial centre and major commercial and the permanent seat of the Maltese government. The city was built after the Great Siege of Malta by the Ottoman Turks in 1565. It is built on top of a hill ... Click to read the article details

Vatican City, is the official State of the Vatican City is a land locked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome. Vatican City gained independence from Italy on 11 February, 1929

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Trondheim was founded by the Viking king Olaf I Tryggvason in the 10th century. It is situated where the river Nidelva meets a large fjord, Trondheimsfjorden. There is no darkness from May 20 to July 20 but it has an area of great beauty with rich natural habitats.

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Tampere is the biggest inland town in Scandinavia. The city lies on an isthmus situated between Lake Nasijarvi, in the north and Lake Pyhajarvi in the south.

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Skegness is the biggest resort town on the Fun Coast and has been a premier holiday destination for over a hundred years.

The main road a long the beach is a kaleidoscope of neon and flashing lights fairground rides, advertising arcade machines, slot machines, crazy golf and fish and ... Click to read the article details

Tai'an is a prefecture-level city in western Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Centred around Mount Tai. The leader of the 'Five Sacred Mountains', Mountain Tai is located in the centre of Shandong Province, lying across the cities of Tai'an, Jinan and Zibo. The City is an ancient and ... Click to read the article details

The Shetland Isles, situated in the North Sea, between Scotland and the west coast of Norway, are remote, beautiful, and waiting to be discovered. The Shetland Islands, more than half-way between London and the Arctic circle. There have 1,697 miles of coastline and out of the approximately 100 ... Click to read the article details

The city of Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania. In the 18th century, is was the most populous city of the United States and was the first capital.

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On the south eastern edge of the North York Moors lies Scarborough. Scarboroughs greatest days as a commercial port and ship building centre came in the early years of the nineteenth century, but the larger iron and steam ships spelt the death of the Tindall's ship yard. The demand for fish, on ... Click to read the article details

Santa Barbara, California is one of the worlds premier vacation destinations. Here you will enjoy a mild beach climate, breathtaking scenery, world class dining, shopping and cultural events and festivals, and access to spectacular destinations in the surrounding area.

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Sorrento is a small city in Campania, Italy, with some 16,500 inhabitants. This small town is wonderfully located over white steep cliffs and offers a fantastic view over the Bay of Naples.

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Poughkeepsie is a city in New York, USA. It can be found in the Hudson River Valley between New York City and Albany. Poughkeepsie is located in Dutchess County, about half way between New York City and the state capitol of Albany, on the east side of the Hudson River.

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Granada lies in the foothills of Spains Sierra Nevada Mountains. The main attraction of the Costa del Sol is the many sun drenched beaches running from Gibraltar to the province city of Malaga.

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Sevilla lies on the banks of the Guadalquivir and is one of the largest historical centres in Europe. Seville is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of Andalusia and of the province of Sevilla.

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Tehran is positioned at the base of the Alborz mountain range in Northern Iran. It is split into 22 municipal districts. Each municipal district in turn operates its own administrative centre. Tehran literally means the End of the Road.

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Calgary is the largest city in the province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in a region of foothills and high plains, approximately 80 kilometres east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies.

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Bradenton is one of central west Floridas oldest cities. It was named for Joseph Braden. Located just south of the Tampa Bay area in Manatee County.

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Budapest is the capital city of Hungary and the countries principal political, industrial, commercial and transportation centre. It has more than 2 million inhabitants. It lies in the centre of the Carpathian Basin in Europe, on both sides of the river Danube.

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Toulon is a city in Stark County, Illinois, United States. Toulon is a city in southern France and a large military harbour on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. Located in the Province Alps Cote d Azur region, it is the capital of the Var department, in the former province ... Click to read the article details

Adelaide is the capital city of the Australian state of South Australia. It is the fifth largest city in Australia, with a population of over one million. It is a coastal city beside the Southern Ocean and is situated on the Adelaide Plains, north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St ... Click to read the article details

Albany is the capital of the State of New York. It lies 136 miles north of New York City and slightly to the south of the juncture of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers. The cities estimated population in 2003 was 93,919.The International Airport is serviced by major carriers.

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New Haven is a city in Connecticut and is perhaps best known as the home of Yale University.

Yale University, at the heart of downtown, is one of the cities best known features and its largest employer.

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Allentown is a city located in Pennsylvania in the United States. It is the third most populous city. Located on the Lehigh River it is the largest of three adjacent cities that comprise a region of eastern Pennsylvania known as the Lehigh Valley, with the cities of Bethlehem and Easton nearby. ... Click to read the article details

Oulu is a city and municipality of about 130,000 inhabitants in the province of Oulu and the region of Northern Ostrobothnia, in Finland. It is the largest and most important city in Northern Finland. It is situated on the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia, at the mouth of the Oulujoki River. A major ... Click to read the article details

Muscat is the capital and largest city in the Sultanate of Oman. It is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. It has been known since the second century AD. It is often referred to as the walled city.

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In the early 19th century Morecambe was just a small fishing village called Poulton-le-Sands. Morecambe Bay, is on the north west coast of England, is a huge sandy bay with a magnificent backdrop of the Lake District.

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Margate has the proud heritage of being one of Britains first seaside resorts. Margate is a town in Thanet, Kent, England it was once an old fishing village, it was developed in the mid 1700s as the earliest coastal and sea bathing resort. The pier which was known as the jetty, has now gone. ... Click to read the article details

Ibiza Town heart is The Old Town of Ibiza also called D'alt Vila built in 1554 by the king Felipe II and designed by the Italian Giovanni Batista.

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Carmarthen is on the River Tywi it is the longest river which entirely runs through Wales and Carmarthen has a population of about 13,148. It is the oldest town in Wales and at one time had a population higher than Cardiff. The Welsh name Caerfyrddin, which means Merlins city. As legends have it, ... Click to read the article details

Houston is the fourth largest city in the USA. The first president of the Republic of Texas. Houston was General Sam Houston, and the city is named after him. Houston, the city, was the first to build an air conditioned sports stadium and the first word spoken from the surface of the moon. ... Click to read the article details

The Town of Barnstable is a city on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.It is bordered by Cape Cod Bay on the north, Nantucket Sound on the south, Sandwich and Mashpee on the west and Yarmouth on the east. Barnstable is approximately seventy miles southeast of Boston.

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Chattanooga is the fourth largest city in Tennessee in the United States of America. It is located in southeast Tennessee on Chickamauga and Nickajack Lake, which are both part of the Tennessee River, near the border of Georgia. The city lies at the transition between the ridge and valley portion ... Click to read the article details

Rochester is located within a 400 mile radius of 14 north eastern states, two of the most populated Canadian provinces, New Yorks capital city of Albany and the nations capital of Washington DC.

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Tucson is the seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the Mexican border. The city is located on the Santa Cruz River, a dry river bed much of the year that floods during significant seasonal rains.

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Jeddah is the main city of the Red Sea side of in Saudi Arabia the major commercial centre of the country. Situated on the western coast of Saudi Arabia.

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South Shields is a coastal town in Tyne and Wear, England, on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne, with a population of about 90,000. It is part of the metropolitan borough of South Tyneside.

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Akron is a medium sized city located in the Northeast Ohio region in Summit County in the State of Ohio in the United States.

Akron is the centre of a metropolitan area that includes the cities of Cuyahoga Falls, Tallmadge and Stow and several villages. At 329 metres above sea level, it ... Click to read the article details

Knoxville Tennessee is known as one of the most beautiful and scenic cities in the United States. It has access to majestic mountain top views from the Smoky Mountains, along with an abundance of scenic waterways and rivers.

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Amble, know as Amble by the sea until 1985, is a small town in Northumberland, England. It is a seaport on the North Sea coast. It lies at the mouth of the River Coquet, and the nearby Coquet Island is clearly visible from its beaches and harbour.

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Springfield is a city in Massachusetts, United States. It sits on the bank of the Connecticut River, just a few miles north of the border between Massachusetts and Connecticut. Along the river, the city is fairly low and flat. Moving outward from the river, the terrain becomes hillier, most ... Click to read the article details

Toulouse is a city in southwest France on the banks of the Garonne River, half way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

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McAllen is in Texas lush lower Rio Grande Valley. Its southern boundary is located about five miles from the US Mexico border, the Rio Grande River. McAllen is one of the fastest growing cities in the country. It is also the largest city in Hidalgo County.

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Raleigh is the capital of North Carolina in the United States and has a rapidly growing population, last measured at around 340,000 people.

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