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| One of the world’s biggest metropolises, xxxx looms large over South America Though founded in 1554 by Jesuits, xxxx remained a colonial backwater for much of its history | |
| There are no must-visit beaches, but if you like your cities gutsy, gritty and proud, and can bear a whiff of putrefaction from the waterways, xxxx is for you | |
| xxxx is dizzying in every respect, not only for its well-publicized altitude (3660m), but for its quirky beauty. The first glimpse will, literally, take your breath away | |
| Nicknamed La Perla del Pacífico, from the flat city centre ascensores creak at an improbable angle up to a very different city above. These tumbling chaotic cerros…. | |
| …shanty shacks, dengue fever–carrying mosquitoes, diesel-spewing buses, stark utilitarian architecture. Like a vain woman hiding her age but succumbing to middle-age spread… | |
| Once the foremost city of the Inca empire, xxxx is now the undisputed archaeological capital of the Americas, as well as the continent’s oldest continuously inhabited city | |
| Forget everything you've read about xxxx. Yes, it was the headquarters and principal killing grounds for cocaine cartels. But the press forgot to report xxxx's turnaround | |
| Spread across a spectacular Andean valley and flanked by volcanic peaks, xxxx’s setting is enough to strike you speechless. The historic centre is a maze of colonial splendor | |
| On a clear day, fresh after winter showers, xxxx basks in one of the most spectacular settings of any city in the world. A clear day is rare in this smog-blighted metropolis | |
| xxxx is on the move. Once considered a place to avoid, the capital has cleaned up its act and is fast becoming one of Latin America's urban highlights | |
| A crossroads of the Caribbean, South America and Europe, xxxx is a city of variegated cultures surrounded by all the colours of the Caribbean | |
| There is so much fiery turbulence that the whole town feels on the verge of an explosion. A few blocks away, the streets are empty and there is a palpable Caribbean calm | |
| xxxx is no thing of beauty. A sprawling desert city clinging to dusty cliffs, it spends much of the year marinated in a perpetual fog turning the sky the colour of Styrofoam | |
| Black and white colonial buildings line grassy squares, wafts of spices from Indian roti shops mingle with car exhaust, Maroon artists sell paintings outside sombre forts | |
| xxxx is the closest attempt on earth to a create a modern utopia, carved out of nowhere in the 1950s in a spectacular feat of urban planning and architectural design | |
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| OK, here’s the plan: tan it, wax it, buff it at the gym, then plonk it on the beach at xxxx. Celebrity-watchers have a full-time job here. xxxx is teeming with big names… | |
| Proud, genteel xxxx is the country’s most beautiful city, the symbolic heart of the nation. It was here that independence was proclaimed, and it is still the judicial capital | |
| The centre has a comfortable, lived-in feel, and the down-to-earth locals are a delight. All are very proud of the city’s current claim to fame: Lionel Messi | |
| The irresistibly sexy city of xxxx, known as Ciudad Blanca is surrounded by snowy volcanoes, high-altitude deserts, hot springs, salt lakes and the world’s deepest canyons | |
| Fast-paced and cosmopolitan, this progressive city has over four centuries of history buried beneath its glass-and-concrete monuments to oil-fuelled affluence… | |
| Mix together a beautiful European-like city with attractive residents, gourmet cuisine, awesome shopping, a frenzied nightlife and top-drawer activities, and you get xxxx | |
| xxxx is an incongruous pocket of urbanity in the middle of the jungle, a major port for ocean vessels that’s 1500km from the ocean | |
| chest-beating xxxx takes full advantage of its end-of-the-world status. With a pint of the world’s southernmost microbrew, you can happily plot the dazzling outdoor options | |
| There’s no other place where descendants of African slaves have preserved their heritage as well as in xxxx, from music and religion to food, dance and martial arts | |
| More than just border technicalities make xxxx an enigmatic southern outpost. You'll find a North Face store, a duty-free shopping zone and, of course, a Croatian TV channel | |
| A fairy-tale city of romance, legends and sheer beauty, xxxx is an addictive place that can be hard to escape. Instead, just stroll through xxxx's maze of cobbled alleys | |
| The image of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon is too poetic for xxxx, the economic engine of the country. But get caught up in the streams of locals wandering the Malecón.. | |
| Linked to the outside world by air and by river, xxxx is the world’s largest city that cannot be reached by road. Friendly, noisy, sassy and slightly manic… | |
| In the historic downtown, art deco and neoclassical buildings jostle for space alongside grimy, worn-out skyscrapers that appear airlifted from Havana or Ceauşescu’s Romania | |
| At once both a cinematic cityscape and a grimy urban front line, xxxx, known as the cidade maravilhosa (marvelous city), is nothing if not exhilarating | |
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