I’LL never forget the first time we visited the city of Chester – in fact, it couldn’t have been a more opportune occasion. My eight-year-old son, Peter, was studying Romans at school and Cheshire’s c

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The palace of Quinta da Regaleira is one of the most remarkable esoteric sites in Europe, claimed to overshadow Rennesle-Château and Rosslyn chapel.1 To enter it is to step into the set for a strange