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Imagine the roar of 50,000 spectators as gladiators fought hippopotami at Rome's Colosseum, p. 427. Feel your knees tremble as you teeter over Tara Canyon in Durmitor National Park, p. 563. Feast on butter-bean and garlic soup from a steaming cauldron in Fes labyrinthine medina, p. 598. Relish the scent of the pines as you stretch out on Bene beach, p. 153.

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