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Bucket list: 30 places in Europe you must see before you die
Here is 16 to 20

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Charles Bridge, Czech Republic
This stone bridge across the Vltava river


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Brandenberg Gate, Germany
At the intersection of the colossal Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße in
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this neoclassical arch was built as a sign of peace in the late 18th century – but suffered heavy damage during the Second World War, and held a sombre location right next to the Berlin Wall in the post-conflict partitioned country. It underwent an extensive renovation in the early 2000s, and is now a superb sight among the more modern buildings of the German capital.


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Tuscany, Italy
Renaissance art, towns atop the gentle curve of well-tended pastures, cypress trees lilting in the breeze… there is a reason
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is coveted. Its Val d’Orcia has saved a thousand picture editors in need of a seductive shot to illustrate European holidays: its rolling hills and hamlets have become the Italy of postcards – but only because it is so downright idyllic. This is Italian villa heartland. Siena also hosts the Palio, a
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that has taken place almost without interruption in the central Piazza del Campo since at least 1644.
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is simply exquisite: head for the Duomo, the Uffizi art gallery – which is smaller and more digestible than one might realise – or just accompany the locals on the evening passeggiata, a leisurely stroll through the city’s streets.


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Lake Bled, Slovenia
In the
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, Lake Bled and its surrounds are ideal for outdoor activities - which you’ll soon find out Slovenians are particularly keen on. Energetic pursuits include trekking, mountaineering, rock climbing, ski touring, mountain biking and rafting. Steve Fallon, our Slovenia expert, also says that the
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with a castle-topped island in the middle. “You can swim in the lake – Bled’s warm (26°C at source) and crystal-clear water rates a Blue Flag”, he says. There are swimming areas on the northern and western shores.


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Colosseum, Italy
Telegraph Travel’s
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expert, Lee Marshall, says that the Colosseum is “unmissable, especially now that they have extended the visitor route to the underfloor passageways through which gladiators and wild beasts made their entrances.” The arena, built to seat more than 50,000 people, and earlier this year
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that carried the lions and other wild animals to certain death in the amphitheatre was recreated. A wolf was placed in the machine – but rather than being sent to its death, it was rewarded with a biscuit afterwards.



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Bucket list: 30 places in Europe you must see before you die
Here is 21 to 25

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Ephesus, Turkey
Inscribed on Unesco’s list of World Heritage Sites this year, these ruins in western
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are the remains of a city that was built more than 2,000 years ago. It was once the site of one of the
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, the Temple of Artemis, although this was destroyed by a Goth invasion. It was rebuilt during the Byzantine era, but was completely abandoned by the 15th century, when the Ottomans ruled the land we now know as Turkey.


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Eiffel Tower, France
It is worth visiting
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in Paris once. Yes, it is touristy and you should be wary of pickpockets in the vicinity, but the sight of one of the world's most beautiful cities from above are fabulous - better from the second level than the third and final floor, where a glass screen blocks the view. If you take the stairs rather than the lift, you will also come up close to the immense web of steel lattices from which it was built. Pause, too, to peer over the edge of the
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Alhambra, Spain
The vast fortress and palace complex, whose name means “the red one” in Arabic, is a reminder of the sheer scale of the lands the successive Islamic dynasties once ruled. Built and reconstructed between the 9th and 11th centuries in
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, its Hall of the Abencerrajes, Royal Complex, and Court of the Lions display some of the finest examples of Moorish architecture, including ceilings and panelling so finely sculpted a magnifying glass would be needed to detect each incision. Visitor numbers are strictly limited, and there is no denying the crowds that mass in the most popular rooms


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Venice
La Serenissima receives tens of thousands of visitors every day, and you will not be the only one here. But even the most hardened of honeypot haters must spend at least a day of their lives in
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, a city that straddles a winding network of canals. Don’t try to follow a map: simply get lost among the narrow alleyways where mask vendors’ shops, Italian leather goods ateliers and the odd residents' house teeter on top of each other. You might stumble upon St Mark’s Square in the end.
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can simply swing their legs by the canal and slurp a peach and chocolate gelato.


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The black beaches of Iceland
Telegraph Travel's Hugh Morris, who has just returned from Iceland, writes:
"The crisp, white, near-Arctic waves washing over the black basalt beaches of
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s southern coast have to be seen to believed. The most famous of the country's black beaches is perhaps the Reynisfjara stretch just to the west of Vik. Here, the jet-black, unblemished volcanic sand shimmers into the distance as three jagged needles of rock (a troll and two ships turned to stone by the rising sun, according to folklore) shoot out of the sea just off the shoreline. They are best viewed from the cliffs of Dyrhólaey above. This is not the limit of Iceland's black beaches and other remarkably vast expanses can be found elsewhere along the south coast."



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Bucket list: 30 places in Europe you must see before you die
Here is 26 to 30

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Pantheon, Italy
It's staggring to think that 2,000 years ago the Romans were constructing buildings like the Pantheon, a domed masterpiece with a portico of 12 granite Corinthian columns that remains one of the best preserved of their achievements. Looking up at its glorious ceiling, the sense of space is truly breathtaking.


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Mezquita de Cordoba, Spain
A church stood on this site in the southern Spanish city of
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until AD784, when it was demolished and rebuilt as a great mosque by the Emir Abd al-Rahman I. The Prayer Hall, supported by 400 horseshoe arches with in cream and pink, are the highlight. Expansions by successive Umayyad rulers mean that the current room has 856 columns of jasper, onyx, marble, and granite. A Chapel and transept were built in 1523, after the Reconquista, when it was converted back into a Christian place of worship. At present, only Christians are allowed to pray in the building. Faith aside, casual visitors will marvel at the architectural intricacies of its various rooms, ornate doors, and courtyards and domes.


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Versailles, France
The former playground of the French monarchy is a colossal complex in white and gold, flanked by lavish fountains of the sort that makes you realise why the peasants revolted, in a
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. Its highlights are the Hall of Mirrors, the gardens designed by André Le Nôtre, and Marie Antoinette's hideaway, the "Hameau de la Reine", where she played at being a peasant in rural-style houses.


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The Hermitage, St Petersburg
According to our
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expert, Marc Bennetts, officials at this vast art gallery say it would take 11 years to examine every exhibit in the collection. HIghlights include works by Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso and Rembrandt. Marc Bennetts also recommends taking in the Palace Square next to the complex before or after a visit.


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Pompeii and Herculaneum, Italy
The remains of these communities, destroyed by a 79AD eruption from Vesuvius, which looms nearby, offer a fascinating insight into the sophisticated world that the Romans created.
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, "It is the only place in the world where you can begin to understand, face to face, how the Romans of the first century AD lived: from the brothels and lavatories to the posh dining rooms and lavish bathing establishments (the modern spa, health club and gym rolled into one)." Herculaneum is frequently described as better preserved than Pompeii, and its smaller size certainly makes it an easier visit.


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This cat's maternal instincts kicked in as it has become the mother to a lynx cub...that is bigger than the cat itself. The felines formed quite a bond at their home in Novosibirsk zoo, Russia, when the lynx cub had been rejected by its real mother. Photographer Alexander Lukin,31, from Novosibirsk, caught the tender moment on camera.
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A young woman looks at her mobile phone under the installation 'Heartbeat' by French visual artist Charles Petillon at Covent Garden market in London
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Ezequiel Jesus Lopez and Camila Alegre perform after winning the Stage Tango category final, during the Tango Dance World Cup 2015 in Buenos Aires
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Klaudiusz Golos and Sebastian Mikiciuk drive their upside down car in Trassenheide, Germany. The businessmen from Poland have been presenting the exhibit in their show 'The world upside down' on the island of Usedom in the Baltic Sea.
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Patients from Rady Children's Hospital hug a bottlenose dolphin after being invited to swim and interact with dolphins at Sea World in San Diego, California
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This cute lynx kitten seems to have nodded off while climbing a tree. Photographer Cecilie Sønsteby spotted the cute cat in the Langedrag Nature Park in Norway.
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American Pharoah has a wash after arriving at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The Triple Crown winner is the overwhelming favorite for Saturday's Travers Stakes horse race.
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A slurp of coffee is often one of the first things that touches our mouths in the morning, so a designer has created a cup lid with lips. Jang WooSeok from Sunchon, Korea, came up with what he calls 'The 'Coffee Lid : Take 'Kiss' Out' as a fun but functional concept.
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A participant in the Mrs Universe 2015 contest takes a selfie picture as she stands beside a huge mining dump truck at the BelAZ plant in Zhodino, outside Minsk
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A couple kiss as thousands take part in the traditional Tomatina tomato battle in Bunol, Spain
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The most amazing static ship model I have ever seen. A scratch built, 1/72 scale USS Enterprise, CVN-65. 60 feet long, five feet wide. He worked on it for 20 years. Ann inspiration


Then there is this...an actual 1/24 scale working model of the HMS Invincible. 31feet long. Weighs 1.5 tons and powered by a 5hp moter capable of 7 knots. The most impressive overall ship model (IMHO) of all time.


I actually conversed with the owner of the Invincible model by email fro some time. he is older now and the vessel spends most of its time in a barn on his property. He has tried to get museum and the RN to take it...but been unable to (as of 2013).
 

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The most amazing static ship model I have ever seen. A scratch built, 1/72 scale USS Enterprise, CVN-65. 60 feet long, five feet wide. He worked on it for 20 years. Ann inspiration


Then there is this...an actual 1/24 scale working model of the HMS Invincible. 31feet long. Weighs 1.5 tons and powered by a 5hp moter capable of 7 knots. The most impressive overall ship model (IMHO) of all time.


I actually conversed with the owner of the Invincible model by email fro some time. he is older now and the vessel spends most of its time in a barn on his property. He has tried to get museum and the RN to take it...but been unable to (as of 2013).

Jeff, you seriously need to get/build one of these! It would be the SDF version of the
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Mini automobiles.:rolleyes:


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It's just water. But to the millions of Hindus expected at the Kumbh Mela festival, held this year along the Godavari, touching that water is reverential.
Above, a Hindu devotee slips as others pray while standing in the Godavari river in Nashik
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It's a way to cleanse themselves of sin, to come close to God, to immerse themselves in a tradition that dates back to antiquity
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A Naga sadhu smokes hashish inside his tent during the Kumbh Mela in Trimbakeshwar in India
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Many rivers across India have become foul with the country's economic development, with city sewage, farming pesticides and industrial effluents freely flowing into waterways despite laws against polluting
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A Hindu woman from RajasthanPicture: AP Photo/Bernat Armangue


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Wildlife photographer David Yarrow had a close encounter with a polar bear near Kaktovik in Alaska. He says: "I was confronted by the adult polar bear…and I was told by the Inuit guide to just stay still."
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A king cobra and a reticulated python fight it out on a road near the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
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The final four designs for a new New Zealand flag have been unveiled by the New Zealand Flag Consideration Panel. The flag panel selected their top four designs out of an initial 10,292 alternative designs and the New Zealand public will be able to choose their favourite in the first stage of a referendum later this year.
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An engineer peeks through the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) nicknamed Helen after it breaks through at a junction on the Bangalore Metro line in India
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Swazi maidens deliver reeds that they have cut to King Mswati III of Swaziland at the Ludzidzini Royal Village during the annual Reed Dance ceremony, Manzini, Swaziland
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First graders at a cadet school attend a ceremony to mark the start of the new academic year in Kiev, Ukraine
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A new 3D scan from the largest naval battle in history shows the final resting place of a German flagship. Looking like a small ridge at the bottom of the North Sea this image actually shows SMS Lützow, Admiral Franz von Hipper’s flagship, scuttled during the Battle of Jutland in 1916. The images were captured by the Royal Navy's survey ship HMS Echo which has been visiting Jutland, Denmark.
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The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a magazine with a photograph of him on the cover as he attends an event in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Washington Capitals winger Alexander Ovechkin take part in a match between former Russian ice hockey stars and students of the Sirius educational centre for gifted children in Sochi, RussiaPicture: REUTERS


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