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The quarry was originally dug to extract bauxite — the mineral was first identified in this area in 1821, and the name "bauxite" comes directly from Les Baux. The stone extracted here helped build much of Arles. Today the same rock face that was carved out serves as a 7,000-square-metre canvas for light.

On April 19, 1960, thousands of students marched against the autocratic regime of President Syngman Rhee, protesting a blatantly rigged election. Police opened fire, killing over 180 people, many of them students. The uprising succeeded — Rhee resigned within a week — and became a defining moment in South Korea's long struggle toward democracy.

Reached by the Funivia cable car from Via San Girolamo, the Basilica of Sant'Ubaldo sits at 827 metres on Monte Ingino, looking out over the town and the valley. Inside, the body of St. Ubaldo — bishop of Gubbio in the 12th century and the man who led the town's defence against Perugia — lies in a glass reliquary. The three great wooden pillars used in the Corsa dei Ceri race are stored here betwe

A quiet settlement about five miles south of George Town where little has changed in decades. Century-old stone buildings line the road, and the Rolle Town Tombs — loyalist-era graves dating to the 1790s — sit in a small plot by the highway. The village is typical of Exuma's settlements: a handful of houses, a church, a few fruit trees, and an unhurried pace that makes George Town look like a metr

Also known as Coronation Park, this large green space in the centre of Ipoh is a good place to take a breather. It holds one of the last surviving specimens of the *ipoh* tree from which the city takes its name (the tree's sap was once used by the Orang Asli to poison their blowpipe darts), plus an artificial lake with feedable fish, a small Japanese garden with koi ponds, and a children's playgro

Turpan is one of the lowest, hottest, driest places in China — and yet it has supported a heavily watered agricultural oasis for over two thousand years. The trick is the karez, a system of vertical wells linked by underground tunnels carrying meltwater from the Tianshan Mountains down to the basin without losing it to evaporation. At its peak the network ran to more than 5,000 km of tunnel. Around 800 km still functions.