A JOURNEY ACROSS SICILY REVEALS THE ESSENCE OF AN ISLAND SHAPED BY OUTSIDERS, WHERE SUCCESSIVE WAVES OF IMMIGRATION OVER THE CENTURIES HAVE CREATED A UNIQUE CULTURAL IDENTITY

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A slow train journey through southern France shines a light on one of Europe’s early engineering masterpieces, the Canal du Midi, and the historic cities that thrived on its waters

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Corfe Castle has towered over a Dorset peninsula for 900 years; its stone walls seeing kings crowned, civil wars fought and saints made

Interior designer Henry Prideaux explains why he and his family return to Wales’ Llŷn Peninsula time and again