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    The town's main attraction is the Orrido ("gorge" or small canyon) which was formed through erosion by the river Pioverna. The erosion started 15 million years ago. The church in the city is called Santi Nazario e Celso (built in 1348) and is in the Gothic style.

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  • Menagio

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  • Menton, France

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    The Grand Hotel de Garavan (1867), Hotel Bellevue (1873), Garavan Palace (1912) and Hotel des Anglais (1880, now gone) were all east of the old town and followed the opening of the Menton Garavan train station in 1869. They are all close to the Roman road Via Julia Augusta. Hotel Bellevue once had an Anglican Chapel, now gone. The auction that followed the hotel's bankruptcy in 1937 included 3000 bottles of wine.

  • Cadenabbia

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    Cadenabbia (Cadenabbia di Griante) is a small community in Lombardy, Italy, in the province of Como, on the west shore of Lake Como.

  • Abano Terme

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    Small town, mentioned by Bædeker, enroute between Venice and Florence 1867.  Known as Abano Bagni until 1924.   (Bædeker pp 221)

     

  • Norfolk, CT

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    Norfolk is perhaps best known as the site of the Yale Summer School of Music—Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, which hosts an annual chamber music concert series in "the Music Shed", a performance hall located on the Ellen Battell Stoeckel estate to the west of the village green.

  • Melrose, Scottish Borders

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    Melrose (Scottish Gaelic: Maolros, "bald moor")[2] is a small town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders, historically in Roxburghshire.

  • Olcio

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  • Careno

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  • Dongo

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  • Musso

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  • Sala Comacina

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  • Argegno

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    Argegno (Comasco: Argegn) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Milan and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) north of 

  • Brienno

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    Brienno (Comasco: Brienn [briˈɛn]) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region

  • Torrigia

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