Curious cat's-cradle-like constructions, trabucchi, dot the Gargano coast, ancient fishing tools still in use today.

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The boat was modeled on an ancient 19-meter Phoenician shipwreck excavated off the coast of Marseille.

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To explore Hvar's unsung highlights, take the car ferry from Split, Dalmatia's capital, to the ancient town of Stari Grad on Hvar's western coast.

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He knew that the west coast of India had been the site of an ancient impact of unknown age and size.

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Finish this dream trip on the greatest coastal course in the world, Turnberry's Ailsa, with its famous lighthouse, ancient castle and one stunning hole after another along the rocky coast.

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The wine has an ancient tradition in the Dalmatian culture of Croatia's eastern coast, where parents make the drink when a child is born, and then put the bottles aside to be opened on their wedding day.

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It leads along the coast and across the Tekke hinterland, through holiday towns and tiny hill villages, following ancient trails from goat tracks to Roman roads.

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The epicentre of the latest tragedy, at 5.54am on May 27th, was off the south coast of Java, the country's most densely populated island, just outside the ancient royal city of Yogyakarta.

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