From ancient ruins to sports to nature, this list has something for everyone.
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Councillors approved the project, which includes repairing the ancient ruins of Reading Abbey, at a cabinet meeting last month.
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As he and first lady Laura Bush walked hand-in-hand touring ancient ruins in Rome, Bush was asked if it was his first time here.
The worst eyesores are in the Valley of the Temples at Agrigento, in Sicily, where car show-rooms and tacky restaurants have sprouted almost among the ancient ruins.
The site, which contains ancient ruins, has a glamorous pedigree: while filming at the nearby Teatro Argentina, Italian actress Anna Magnani famously spent her breaks here feeding the cats.
Maya 2012 tours abound as well, including a seven-day End of the World bike tour beginning 15 December, which takes visitors around the jungles and ancient ruins of the Yucatan Peninsula.
Sadly, it was a feeling similar to poking your head through the sun gate at Machu Picchu and seeing the ancient ruins for the first time after four days of hiking the Inca Trail.
Stop in at its Musee du Savon (Soap Museum) to see how the sudsy stuff is traditionally made, before continuing south to Tyre, a city rarely visited by tourists, whose ancient ruins make it a fascinating destination.
Speckled by ancient ruins, it even has a wine route: the Strada del Vino Costa degli Etruschi, which runs south from Livorno to Piombino and across to the island of Elba, edged by searing-blue water and with views to sigh over.
In the Iran of the 1960s, use of the term "Charter of Human Rights" became increasingly popular, culminating in 1971 when the shah celebrated 2, 500 years of Persian history at the ancient ruins of Persepolis, where he represented himself as a direct descendant of Cyrus.
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From the ancient ruins of Egypt, to the presidential palace in Tunisia, to the desert of Morocco -- after thousands of miles with Hillary Clinton, you come away with this: Every step is certain, every word is measured, and you know only what she wants you to.
And so when I see Moscow City trying to gleam out my nine foot window I think that my daughters someday, now just tweens, are going to tell me about their trip to the ancient ruins of Babylon, or Persepolise and then Kish Island in Iran.
Today, more than a year later, the modern ruins piles of rubble and half-demolished plaster walls still sit next to ancient temple ruins the shop owners were said to infringe.
The area was also a draw for trout-fishing enthusiasts and visitors to the ancient Buddhist ruins in the area.
Just 45 minutes from Beirut is Byblos, a historic coastal city with stunning ancient Roman ruins and a well-preserved Crusader-era castle.
The Jewry Wall Museum, only a short distance from the cathedral and the Greyfriars parking lot, houses medieval relics and ancient Roman ruins on its grounds.
Thefts from ancient Indian ruins, he adds, are a growing business in the Four Corners area, where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet in spectacular mountains.
Within 20 minutes lay several sandy beaches on the Ionian Sea, there are two 18-hole golf courses nearby, and the region is teeming with historic sighs, from ancient Greek ruins to Neolithic cave dwellings.
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Excursions include diving, sailing, kayaking, deep-sea fishing, swimming with dolphins, championship golf, windsurfing, eco-tours, a trip to the Contoy Island bird sanctuary, guided nature walks, jungle river trips, fishing and day trips to the ancient Maya ruins in the area.
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Standing in the Grand Hammam excavation area, I could see the ruins of ancient chamber areas and air circulation passages that were slowly being restored.
Still, even if Caesarstone succeeds in expanding its U.S. business, the communal way of life might not survive much longer at the kibbutz founded in 1940 amid the Roman ruins of ancient Caesarea.
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Instead, check into the creaky old Palmyra Hotel where luminaries including Jean Cocteau and General de Gaulle once slept, and explore the spectacular ruins of ancient Heliopolis - the "Sun City" - whose Temples of Bacchus and Jupiter hold their own among the Mediterranean's finest.
Travellers can explore the ruins of two ancient limestone synagogues, a modern Catholic church built over a 5th-century octagonal church known as St Peter's House and the spectacular pink-domed Orthodox Church of Capernaum.
Iraqi archaeologist Hai Katth Moussa said that during a massive reconstruction project in the early 1980s, Saddam began building a replica of the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II on top of the ruins of the ancient palace.
Windy roads west along the Mediterranean lead to the ruins of Perge and its ancient stadium.
All they had to do was wait for the tourists to come and pay to admire the ruins of the achievements of their ancient ancestors.
Two of three other such spots in the country are nearby: the Champa ruins at My Son and the ancient trading post of Hoi On.
The 5km circular trail leads to the 2, 000-year-old ruins of the Saharonim Stronghold, an ancient station on the Nabataean Spice Route.
Then there is the ancient city of Palmyra, another Unesco World Heritage site, whose ruins lay scattered across a desert oasis 150 miles northeast of Damascus.
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