Ireland, County Carlow, Duckett’s Grove, Spring 2023
Duckett's Grove is a ruined 19th-century great house and former estate in County Carlow, Ireland. It was formerly the focal point of a big estate which dominated the local landscape of the area for more than two centuries. The interior of the house was destroyed by a major fire in the 1930s and is now inaccessible. Few years ago, Duckett's Grove was featured in an TV show to find out if the ruins are haunted by a Banshee Ghost.
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Ireland, County Cork, Bantry, Spring 2023
Bantry is a town in County Cork, Ireland. It lies in West Cork at the head of Bantry Bay. The focus of the town is a large square, formed partly by infilling of the shallow inner harbour. In former times, this accommodated regular cattle fairs; after modernising as an urban plaza, it now features a weekly market and occasional public functions. Two piers protect the harbour.
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Ireland, County Dublin, Dublin, Spring 2023
Temple Bar (Irish: Barra an Teampaill) is an area on the south bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin, Ireland. It is promoted as Dublin's 'cultural quarter' and, as a centre of Dublin's city centre's nightlife, is a tourist destination. It is generally thought that the street known as Temple Bar got its name from the Temple family, whose progenitor Sir William Temple built a house and gardens there in the early 1600s. The Temple Bar is also a public house located in the heart of this area. The first pub on the site was reputedly licensed in the early 19th century.
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Italy, Tuscany, Torre del Lago Puccini, Winter 2024
Torre del Lago (Tower of the Lake) is a town in the province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy, between the Lake of Massaciuccoli and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Festival Puccini, an annual opera festival which attracts around 40,000 attendees, is held in its open-air theatre, a short distance from Villa Puccini where the opera composer Giacomo Puccini lived and worked. He frequently hunted around the lake. Torre del Lago is sometimes mentioned with the suffix "Puccini" in his honour. He is buried in a small chapel inside the Villa.
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Italy, Tuscany, Livorno, Spring 2024
Away from the busy streets of the town center, the Venezia district Livorno's version of 'little Venice' offers a glimpse of historic Livorno as it was in the 17th and 18th centuries when the port of Livorno was developing as one of the most important in the Mediterranean and the new city was inhabited by many foreign communities who set up business here.
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