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...“Why a park, of all places?” he said. “Just as it’s inappropriate to shout or joke in a mosque, it’s equally inappropriate to put up a mosque in a park where people go for a walk or picnic.”...
...Coming from the city centre (the park is 1.7km from the central square, Puerta del Sol), you might enter from the west side through Puerta de Felipe IV, across the road from what remains of the Buen Retiro...
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...“It’s close to the Norfolk coast, is the only English city within a national park [the Norfolk Broads] and house prices are much lower than in parts of the south of England,” Jamieson says....
...One of the most special places to me is Fort Greene Park, another central hub and the place where many ideas for The World Around were born....
...He was one of the first to go to the new Eleven Madison Park....
...whole of the metropolis, from the hypertrophying cluster of City towers to all the most prominent landmarks....
...festival in celebration of the city’s patron saint....
...Jann Baskett, co-president and chief brand officer of SXSW, said London was “one of the most vibrant cities in Europe”....
...The sight of actors pottering in loincloths is not the movie’s finest hour. But the human throwbacks do bring to mind the famous warning of Jurassic Park: That’s how it always starts....
...Affordable rents, cafés and parks and spaces where you can walk or write undisturbed, so essential for flâneurs of all ages and genders, are obviously important: places where the air crackles with readings...
...It speaks to one of several themes for the new Sculpture in the Park exhibition....
...We decided to create 12 pavilions, to create a link with the 12 cities of Tuscany, because that’s our family heritage, and Italy is the place that made us known internationally.”...
...Little Island, a new public park on the site of the former Pier 54 on the Hudson River, New York, is a philanthropic gift to the city funded by Barry Diller and the Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation...
...Like the phases of the moon, the city’s dining trends wax and wane. This renaissance has now reached the world of Chinese restaurants, which has long been a backbone of New York City cuisine....
...Between the bustle of north London’s Camden Market and the genial calm of Tufnell Park lies a row of independent shops and restaurants that are quietly turning a sleepy strip of Kentish Town Road into a...
...tourists in gateway cities such as London....
...neglected corners of the city....
...He sought healthier accommodation north of the city for his youthful wife Virginia (she was just 13 at the time of their marriage) who was suffering from consumption and would die from the disease in 1847...
...Who Carter Jonas Apartment, Battersea Park, £2.1mn Where In Riverside One, a development on the South Bank of the Thames near Albert Bridge....
...He also keeps busy drawing up a “micro district” with a university, a hotel, an ice rink and parks that could be built in the west of Bakhmut when the city is liberated....
...From the 1950s to the 1980s, swaths of the city — including Art Deco villas and charming parks — were razed by unscrupulous developers linked to Cosa Nostra in its notorious “Sack of Palermo”.It hit rock...
...The only accommodation in the heart of the national park, it became wildly popular and helped pioneer the concept of upmarket, high-design lodges in the remotest of locations....
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