I'll be blogging about what I find in the coming days, but wanted to give you an initial flavour of life in this famous city, which sits on a dusty coastal plain just below a green, almost Tuscan, range of low hills.
Kyoto's contemplative bars are somewhat like the small wooden kaiseki restaurants that have made the city famous for its cuisine.
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Coventry is a city famous for car making, but these days it is public sector workers that are driving much of the local economy.
What "Hugo Cabret" did for early French cinema, here Selznick reveals a further love of history, specifically for several famous New York City museums.
Mr May has also worked as a technical adviser for other start-ups, including Picochip, which is based in nearby Bath, a city famous for its Roman spa.
The theme is particularly fitting for Paris, a city famous for the tomes written in and on its hallowed literary turf and for playing host to the literary salons of the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Mr Polding moved to the Kemptown area - a part of the city famous for its gay community - about nine months ago where he felt more comfortable living as an openly homosexual man, his family said.
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Thursday one block south of Plaza Garibaldi, a rough but famous patch of Mexico City known for its mariachis.
It has transformed London's food: a city once famous for its inedible cuisine now has better restaurants than Paris or Rome.
The skyline of the city, famous for its citadel and ancient monuments, is changing rapidly, with new hotels being built to accommodate visitors form Iraq and beyond.
The buzz is now all about how best to obscure that she's a carpetbagger, and an especially giant one since she lives famously in a famous house in another city.
Years before the name became synonymous with racial segregation laws, Jim Crow was a showbiz act a performance first made famous in New York City by a young white actor named Thomas D.
But now that it has surfaced, the owl could be a game-changer in the water war between the U.S. Forest Service and the Wild West city made famous by the 30-second gunfight at the O.
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But there is still a long way to go: the only time Barack Obama saw a sizeable number of Afro-Brazilians was on his visit to the Cidade de Deus slum, made famous by the movie City of God.
He breached the Assyrian siege by digging his famous water tunnel under the city.
More than 1.5 million people gathered around Sydney harbour to watch the city's famous firework display.
"Uncover the secrets of Topkapi Palace" is her tour of the city's famous and infamous royal residence and harem.
The 179-room Hotel Kamp, a stylish outpost located along the city's famous Esplanadi Boulevard, has a long history of attracting both diplomatic and celebrity renown.
City officials said they expected to prevail with what they see as an innovative option for snagging one of the city's famous yellow cabs.
Events which have already been confirmed are an exhibition of Gustav Klimt's work at Tate Liverpool and an opera based around the city's famous Adelphi Hotel.
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The thriving steel industry the city was once famous for is beginning to recover, while the fishermen who had not lost their boats are back at sea.
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McLeish denied Arsenal a first trophy since 2005 11 months ago when he steered Birmingham City to a famous win over the Gunners in last season's Carling Cup final.
Later in the program, we head to Detroit, where an official task with paying off the city's massive debt has his eye on works in the city's famous art institute.
She will make her first campaign appearance on behalf of her former mentor in Charleston to help raise money for Sanford during a fundraiser at a home on the city's famous Battery.
For the New York stores a buyer arrives at the city's famous Fulton Fish Market every morning at 2 a.m. to purchase the fresh catch of the day, which is then highlighted at the counter.
Upstairs, Mr Cai has built a mini rollercoaster in a cavernous gallery, on whose ceiling is painted Mr Cai's history of Belgian art images from the city's famous Ghent altarpiece and iconic works by Magritte and Broodthaers.
The young Lisa Diaz stars as a solo sailor who parks her boat and crosses the Brooklyn Bridge, with flag and stuffed bear in tow, in search of big-city adventure at famous landmarks she finds on an ancient map.
Bangkok jeweler Acharavadee Wongsakon, for instance, on June 30 led a procession of several hundred protesters through the city's famous Chatuchak weekend market and the Khao San Road backpacker district to persuade Thais and foreign tourists to show more respect.
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The site includes much of the city's famous waterfront, including the Three Graces - the Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building - the Pier Head, the Albert Dock and the Stanley Dock Conservation Area.
London (CNN) -- To an outsider, Thursday's contest to elect the next mayor of London would appear to be a fight between two larger-than-life characters -- known best by their first names -- for control of the city's famous red buses.
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