WESTERN EUROPE
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Travel stories tagged Western Europe
Weird & Offbeat - Tribute to Michael Jackson
In late June 2009, shortly after the news of Michael Jackson's passing, residents of Munich came together to create a makeshift memorial in his honor. They commandeered the base of a statue...
The Alhambra of Granada
The Alhambra is a place of consequences, many of which still reverberate to this very day, both here and beyond; a place that one will constantly refer back to, or be referred back to, in the...
Christmas in Arras
The Great War, the centenary of whose conclusion will be widely observed this year, devastated most of Arras, which locals claim was the only town in France to be on the front-line for the wars...
Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
On 10th June 1944, Nazi forces surrounded and then besieged the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, rounding-up and murdering 642 men, women and children; one of the largest mass murders by the...