Portugal is the romance of Europe’s western edge — a country of dramatic Atlantic coastlines, golden limestone beaches, medieval hilltop castles, and the melancholic strains of fado music drifting through the narrow alleyways of Lisbon’s Alfama district at midnight. Hemmed in on one side by Spain and on the other by the vast, empty Atlantic, […]
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Malta is a diving and history paradise — a tiny archipelago of three inhabited islands (Malta, Gozo, and Comino) in the middle of the Mediterranean whose extraordinarily clear waters, spectacular underwater limestone formations, and a density of historical sites that borders on the absurd (Malta has three UNESCO World Heritage sites in a country smaller […]
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