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...We depart Marseille on a speedboat and anchor off a rocky coast of limestone cliffs. In the ocean, temperatures are nippier and the waters much choppier....
...Shut down by government, sold up to developers and, in the case of the many legendary little spots in the Calanques (limestone creeks) to the east of Marseille, entirely erased....
...There is neither art nor TV, and the toilet is a stainless steel bowl that would not be out of place in a prison....
...From the mainland, the Isle of Portland looks daunting: a dead-straight, narrow causeway beside a stony stretch of beach leading to a dismal-looking port and a prison....
...The white limestone structure creates a feeling of déjà vu in those who know Trajan’s Column in Rome. The Romanian version is the Tropaeum Traiani, or Trajan’s Trophy....
...The prison, now converted into a museum with former inmates as its guides, became a symbol of the brutality of the apartheid state....
...After the war ended, the Soviet authorities briefly used the bunker as a prison....
...Here visitors come haphazardly upon art deep in caves, such as Andy Goldsworthy’s walk-in inverted wooden bird’s nest “Oak Room”, or opening on plateaux like Liam Gillick’s brightly painted prison cell doors...
...Unable to work, the former crane operator takes long walks along the village’s limestone houses and narrow lanes lined by plane trees. Some residents are hostile to his presence in the village....
...Many went without hard hats as they did the dirty and difficult job of demolishing an Art Deco landmark made of limestone. The fruits of their labour are known around the world....
...“Lots of things that in 1965 other people would have thought laughable in terms of heritage, 19th-century military fortifications, or old prisons . . . he absolutely got that these places were every bit...
...They are designing a building type that, like a prison, no matter how luxuriously appointed, everyone wants to escape as soon as possible....
...He turned a tiny room in a bank into a prison, cramming in a dozen female “offenders” at a time. Still, not everyone was cowed....
...This is the starting point for the passenger ferries that go to the islands a 20-minute ride away and to the Calanques, a series of extraordinary limestone inlets....
...Sprays of almond blossom riot against the blonde limestone walls....
...It’s a 1,900ha cake of limestone with 30,000 years of aboriginal habitation to it....
...’s “a palace and a prison on each hand”....
...In June 2005, Shaik was found guilty of corruption and fraud and sentenced to 15 years in prison....
...King says he developed his reading addiction in prison....
...“I have spent eight years converting it from a wreck of an old prison into a modern mansion, so my heart is in it. I know it inside out....
...Under the terms of his guilty plea, his wife Lea served a year in prison for filing a false tax return. He is waiting to start a 10-year term....
...The “green” of Jebel Akhdar is said to derive from the tint of its sought-after limestone though its patchy greenery also stems from the height of its peaks, localised rainfall and more temperate climate...
...It was perhaps a measure of the man that John Paul not only forgave Ali Agca but visited him in prison....
...Lampedusa is neither pretty, nor, with its jagged, limestone cliffs, hospitable....
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