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Cities In USA
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International Cities
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The islands of HAWAII , with their volcanoes , palm-fringed
beaches , verdant valleys , glorious rainbows and awesome cliffs
, hold some of the most spectacularly beautiful scenery on earth.
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: Canada
is almost unimaginably vast. It stretches from the Atlantic
to the Pacific and from the latitude of Rome to beyond the Magnetic
North Pole. |
| : COLORADO
is one of the least geographically homogenous of the United
States, ranging from the flat, endless plains of the east to
the colossal mountains of the west. |
: Mexico
enjoys a cultural blend that is wholly unique: among the fastest
growing industrial powers in the world, its vast cities boast
modern architecture to rival any in the world. |
| : Brochure
images of tanning flesh and Mickey Mouse give an inaccurate
and incomplete picture of FLORIDA . Although the aptly nicknamed
"Sunshine State" is indeed devoted to the tourist
trade. |
: Of
all European countries, Italy is perhaps the hardest to classify.
It is a modern, industrialized nation. It is the harbinger of
style, its designers leading the way with each season's fashions.
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| : Publicized
and idealized all over the world, CALIFORNIA really does live
up to the myth. More than just a terrestrial paradise of sun,
sand and surf, it has high mountain ranges, fast-paced glitzy
cities, primeval old-growth forests and vast stretches of deserts. |
: If
you are coming to Spain for the first time, be warned: this
is a country that fast becomes an addiction. You might intend
to come just for a beach holiday, or a tour of the major cities,
but before you know it you'll find yourself hooked by something
quite different. |
| : Still
cherishing the memory that it was from 1836 to 1845 an independent
nation in its own right, TEXAS stands apart from the rest of
the United States. |
: Germany
has always been the problem child of Europe. For over a millennium
it was no more than a loose confederation of separate states
and territories. |
| : LA
is a young city; in the mid-nineteenth century, it was a community
of white American immigrants, poor Chinese laborers and wealthy
Mexican ranchers, with a population of less than fifty thousand.
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: The
sheer physical diversity of France would be hard to exhaust
in a lifetime of visits. The landscapes range from the fretted
coasts of Brittany to the limestone hills of Provence, the canyons
of the Pyrenees and the half-moon bays of Corsica. |
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FRANCISCO proper occupies just 48 hilly square miles at the
tip of a slender peninsula, almost perfectly centered along
the California coast. |
: England's
ancient cathedral cities, such as Lincoln, York, Salisbury,
Durham and Winchester , cannot be equalled for sheer physical
beauty. |
| : Today,
Chicago's towering skyline - the city has one of the world's
best collections of modern architecture , from Frank Lloyd Wright
houses to the 110-story Sears Tower - dominates the pancake-flat
prairies for hundreds of miles around. |
: Paris
has no problem living up to the painted images and movie myths
with which we're all familiar. Indeed, the whole city is something
of a work of art. |
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Honolulu is surprisingly small, set back a little from the sea
and centering around a spacious plaza on King Street that includes
Iolani Palace and the state capitol . |
: With
a population of just under eight million, London is Europe's
largest city, spreading across an area of more than 620 square
miles from its core on the River Thames. |
| : Many
of Miami's districts are officially cities in their own right,
and each has a background and character very much its own. Most
people head straight to Miami Beach. |
: Toronto's
sights illustrate different facets of the city, but in no way
do they crystallize its identity. The city remains opaque, too
big and diverse to allow for a defining personality. |
| : New
Orleans began life in 1718 as a French-Canadian outpost, an
unlikely set of shacks on a disease-ridden marsh. Its prime
location near the mouth of the Mississippi River. |
: Amsterdam
is a small city, and, although the concentric canal system can
be initially confusing, finding your bearings is straightforward.
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