In 1693, however, the French king Louis XIV again sacked Heidelberg, blowing up its key buildings and burning the refurbished library and its contents to the ground.

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The National Statistics report also said 403 school buildings had been substantially rebuilt or refurbished in the last five financial years.

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Several of the buildings he has gutted and refurbished with a view to open them as hotels.

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Setting itself firmly in Mitteleuropa rather than the Balkans, the country has transformed its capital of Ljubljana into a pedestrianised, cafe-kissed oasis, where a collage of refurbished medieval, Baroque and Art Nouveau buildings shine as brightly as the shimmering waters of the Ljubljanica River.

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He said the SNP government had built and refurbished 330 schools over the past four years, halving the number of pupils taught in "crumbling school buildings" from 250, 000.

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