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      <title>Palermo Cathedral Is a Landmark You Can Appreciate Before Buying a Ticket</title>
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      <description>A visitor can get a great deal from Palermo Cathedral before entering a ticketed area. The exterior is an attraction in its own right, with a layered façade, towers and a generous setting that makes it possible to look from several angles.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Palatine Chapel Mosaics Make a Strong Case for Prioritizing One Palermo Interior</title>
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      <description>If time or money allows only a limited number of paid interiors in Palermo, the Palatine Chapel deserves serious consideration. Its gold-ground mosaics create an atmosphere unlike the city&#39;s open squares and stone façades.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Palermo Rooflines Reward Travelers Who Look Beyond the Main Attractions</title>
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      <description>The cost of seeing Palermo&#39;s architectural details is often nothing more than a few extra minutes. Roof tiles, cornices and weathered façades are part of the cityscape, yet they rarely appear on a standard list of paid attractions.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Palermo in the First Week of November 2026, Le Vie dei Tesori Sites From 3 Euros and a Free Baroque Concert</title>
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      <description>Palermo&#39;s week starts with the Festa dei Morti on November 2, when the city&#39;s children wake up to presents said to come from their dead relatives. It ends with two nights of after-dark visits to buildings that are usually locked. In between, the calendar is thinner than you&#39;d expect. There&#39;s no opera this week. The best of what&#39;s on costs €3 or nothing.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Salamanca Travel Guide: Cathedrals, University and the Golden City</title>
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      <description>Salamanca, in western Spain&#39;s Castile and León region, is a city made for walking. Its golden sandstone architecture, ancient university, monumental squares and lively streets offer a rare combination: an outstanding historic setting that still feels unmistakably lived in. Its old city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the best way to appreciate it is to give yourself time to wander.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Sagrada Familia Rewards a Closer Look at Its Carved Stone Doorways</title>
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      <description>Barcelona&#39;s Sagrada Familia is easy to approach with your eyes already lifted towards the towers. At street level, though, the building asks for a different pace. A doorway can hold your attention for longer than you expected, especially when you stop trying to fit the whole basilica into a single photograph. Antoni Gaudí&#39;s church rewards that change of scale: step closer, let the outline disappear, and the stone begins to reveal smaller worlds.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Expedia Fall 2026 Release Adds an AI Activity Planner, Hotel Answers From Reviews and Pay-Later Vrbo Stays</title>
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      <description>Expedia Group put out more than 30 new and updated features on October 28, spread across Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo. Most of them are small. Taken together they show where the big booking sites think the money is now: keeping you inside their app after you&#39;ve paid, and answering the questions you used to email the hotel about.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Paris Wallace Fountains Offer Free Drinking Water With a Winter Catch</title>
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      <description>A refillable bottle can save a visitor a string of small purchases during a long day in Paris. The city&#39;s drinking fountains supply tap water free of charge, and the ornate Wallace fountains are among the most recognizable. There is a seasonal detail, though: many fountains are turned off in cold weather to protect their pipes.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Seabourn Expands Earth and Ocean Into a Fleetwide Culinary Philosophy</title>
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      <description>Seabourn is expanding Earth &amp; Ocean from a restaurant concept into a culinary philosophy across its fleet, putting destination-inspired food at the center of a broader dining and travel experience. Announced on October 20, the approach will influence menus, onboard programming and experiences ashore, combining regional ingredients and cooking traditions with gourmet products sourced internationally. For the luxury cruise market, the interesting part is the move beyond the restaurant itself…</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>IMTM 2027, February 16–17, EXPO Tel Aviv</title>
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      <description>Where Israeli tourism meets the world: IMTM returns to EXPO Tel Aviv on February 16–17, 2027, bringing the Israeli travel industry together with destinations and tourism businesses from abroad. For travel agents, hoteliers, tour operators and destination representatives, the attraction is wonderfully practical. In two days, they can meet the people behind the places, renew working relationships and explore opportunities that are difficult to assess through emails and promotional brochures…</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Spain Continues Its Fight Against Tourism With 10% VAT on Holiday Rentals From December 1</title>
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      <description>Spain has found a new lever to pull against the holiday let. From December 1, 2026, short-stay tourist rentals will pay 10% value-added tax, the same rate hotels already charge. Until now most of them paid none.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>American Museum of Natural History: $37 for Out-of-State Adults and a $465 Million Gilder Center</title>
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      <description>New York&#39;s two great museums face each other across Central Park, and they price visitors the same way. Pay a lot if you&#39;re from out of state. Pay what you like if you live in New York.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>EU Entry/Exit System Is Live at Every Border, and ETIAS Is Delayed Again With No Date</title>
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      <description>If you&#39;re not an EU citizen and you&#39;ve crossed into Europe this year, you&#39;ve probably met the Entry/Exit System. It&#39;s the reason the passport booth now wants your fingerprints and a photo of your face. The system started on October 12 2025, a year ago tomorrow, and the deadline to have it running at every external border crossing was April 10 2026.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Hofbräuhaus Munich Pours a Litre for €11.60, About €4 Less Than an Oktoberfest Mass</title>
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      <description>Oktoberfest closed a week ago with a Mass costing up to €15.90 in the tents. A twenty-minute walk away, the Hofbräuhaus on Platzl serves the same litre of Hofbräu all year for €11.60. That&#39;s from the city&#39;s own survey of centre beer halls, done every May. The alcohol-free version costs €12.20, which tells you something about where the margin sits.</description>
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      <title>Hundertwasserhaus Vienna: Free to Look At, Closed to Visitors, With a Paid Museum Five Minutes Away</title>
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      <description>The Hundertwasserhaus is one of the most photographed buildings in Vienna, and you can&#39;t go inside. It&#39;s a council housing block. People live there. It was built between 1983 and 1985 on the corner of Kegelgasse and Löwengasse in the 3rd district, designed by the painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser with the architects Josef Krawina and Peter Pelikan.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Les Halles de Bacalan: Bordeaux&#39;s Food Hall Next to the Cité du Vin, With About 20 Stalls and No Mondays</title>
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      <description>Walk out of the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux and the next building along is where you eat. Les Halles de Bacalan opened on November 9 2017 at 10 Esplanade de Pontac, on the old docks of the Bassin à flot. It&#39;s run by Biltoki, a Basque group that operates food halls in the southwest, together with the Bordeaux restaurateur Nicolas Lascombes.</description>
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      <title>Les Machines de l&#39;île Nantes: €12 to Ride a 48-Tonne Elephant, With Rides Paused From November</title>
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      <description>Nantes is the city where you can ride a mechanical elephant. The Grand Éléphant is about 12 metres tall, 21 metres long and weighs 48.4 tonnes. It walks out of its hangar on the Île de Nantes with up to 50 passengers on its back, sprays the crowd with water from its trunk, and takes about 30 minutes to make its round. Since 2018 it has run on a hybrid engine.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Met Charges Visitors $30, While New York State Residents Still Pay What They Wish</title>
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      <description>For most of its history, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York let everyone pay what they wished. The &#34;recommended&#34; $25 was a suggestion, and a lot of visitors paid a dollar. On March 1 2018 that ended for out-of-towners. Since then, adults from outside New York State pay a fixed price, and pay-what-you-wish is kept for New York State residents and for students from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Munich Residenz Antiquarium: The Largest Renaissance Hall North of the Alps for a €10 Ticket</title>
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      <description>Most visitors to Munich spend their money in beer halls and their time on Marienplatz. A few hundred metres away, the Residenz, the old palace of the Wittelsbach dukes and kings, holds one of the most extraordinary rooms in Germany, and it&#39;s rarely busy.</description>
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      <title>Musée des Confluences Lyon: A €255 Million Building, 700,000 Visitors a Year and a €12 Ticket</title>
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      <description>At the southern tip of Lyon&#39;s Presqu&#39;île, where the Rhône and the Saône meet, there&#39;s a museum that looks like a cloud of glass and steel crashed into a concrete plinth. The Musée des Confluences opened on December 20 2014, designed by the Austrian practice Coop Himmelb(l)au. It covers 22,000 square metres, of which 6,500 are exhibition space.</description>
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      <title>National Gallery London Stays Free After the UK Drops a Plan to Charge Foreign Visitors</title>
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      <description>For six months this year it looked like Britain&#39;s free national museums might start charging tourists. In March the Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, accepted a proposal from Margaret Hodge to look at a two-tier model, free for residents and paid for overseas visitors. The British Museum and the National Gallery were the names in every story, and a figure of £15 to £20 a ticket was floated.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Piccadilly Circus and London&#39;s Visitor Bill: A Coming Hotel Levy, a £20 ETA and No VAT-Free Shopping</title>
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      <description>Piccadilly Circus is where London sells itself. The giant curved screen on the corner, the red buses, the theatres down Shaftesbury Avenue, the shops on Regent Street. It&#39;s also a good place to add up what a trip to London now costs a foreign visitor, because three things on that bill have changed.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Plaza Mayor Madrid: A 400-Year-Old Square, a King on Horseback and a City Without a Tourist Tax</title>
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      <description>Every visitor to Madrid ends up in the Plaza Mayor at some point, usually more than once. It&#39;s ten minutes from the Puerta del Sol, enclosed on all four sides, entered through arches, and big enough to swallow a crowd without feeling full. Madrid marked its 400th anniversary in 2017.</description>
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      <title>Plovdiv on a Budget: A Roman Theatre for About €2.50 and a Free Hilltop View Over Bulgaria&#39;s Second City</title>
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      <description>Plovdiv calls itself one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe, and it has the layers to back it up. Thracian fort, Roman city, Ottoman town, National Revival merchant houses, communist-era blocks, all within a twenty-minute walk. It was European Capital of Culture in 2019, and the year left a mark: foreign visitors rose by 27% and overnight stays by about 18%.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Prado Museum Passed 3.5 Million Visitors for the First Time in 2025, and Its Last Two Hours Are Still Free</title>
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      <description>The Prado had its best year ever in 2025. The museum in Madrid counted 3,513,402 visitors, the first time it has gone past 3.5 million, and over 3.6 million counting the shows it sent to Palma and Barcelona. That&#39;s Velázquez, Goya, El Greco, Titian, Rubens and Bosch&#39;s Garden of Earthly Delights pulling a bigger crowd than ever.</description>
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      <title>Saint-Émilion Wine Tourism: A Million Visitors, a €15 Underground Tour and Bordeaux Pulling Up Vines</title>
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      <description>Saint-Émilion sits forty minutes from Bordeaux and its Cité du Vin by local train and gets about a million visitors a year. That&#39;s a lot for a town of narrow stone lanes on a limestone slope, and most of them come for the same two things: wine, and the church cut out of the rock underneath it.</description>
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      <title>Salamanca From Madrid: 1 Hour 40 Minutes by Train to Spain&#39;s Oldest University City</title>
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      <description>Salamanca is the best day trip from Madrid that most people don&#39;t take. A direct Alvia train from Madrid-Chamartín gets there in about an hour and forty minutes, and it drops you in a city built almost entirely from the same golden sandstone, which turns orange in the evening sun.</description>
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      <title>Sirmione on Lake Garda Rejects a Visitor Cap and Tries 31 Pedestrian-Only Days Instead</title>
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      <description>Sirmione sits at the end of a thin peninsula pushing into the south of Lake Garda. One road goes in. About 8,000 people live there, and the town reports more than 1.3 million overnight stays a year, before you count the day visitors who come by car, bus and boat from Verona, Brescia and the rest of the lake.</description>
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      <title>Tate Britain: A Free Collection, £24 Exhibitions and 1.15 Million Visitors in a Tight Year</title>
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      <description>Tate Britain is the quieter Tate. Tate Modern, across the river in the old power station, took about 4.5 million visits in 2025. Tate Britain on Millbank took 1,149,325, down 6% on the year before. It&#39;s the one Londoners recommend when you ask where to see paintings without a crowd.</description>
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      <title>Venice After Dark: Staying Overnight Skips the Day Fee and Costs Up to €5 a Night in Tourist Tax</title>
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      <description>The cheapest way to see Venice without the crowd is to sleep there. Overnight guests don&#39;t pay the €5 or €10 day-tripper fee, and after the last trains leave in the evening the city gets its quiet back. What you pay instead is the city&#39;s tourist tax, the imposta di soggiorno, and it&#39;s lower than most people think.</description>
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      <title>Wawel Castle Kraków Hit a Record 3.4 Million Visitors in 2025, and Tickets Are Sold One Exhibition at a Time</title>
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      <description>Wawel Hill was the seat of Polish kings for five centuries, and in 2025 it had its busiest year ever. About 3.4 million people visited, up nearly 10%, which is roughly four tourists for every resident of Kraków. Most of them found out on arrival that there&#39;s no single ticket to &#34;the castle&#34;.</description>
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      <title>Bulgaria on the Euro: What Changed for Visitors in Sofia After the Lev</title>
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      <description>Every city that wants a museum to fix its economy ends up pointing at Bilbao. Nearly thirty years after Frank Gehry&#39;s titanium building opened in 1997, the numbers are still the strongest argument for the idea.</description>
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      <description>Every summer, British fraud reports follow the holiday calendar. Action Fraud, the UK&#39;s national fraud reporting centre, logged 6,066 holiday fraud reports in 2024 with losses of £11,183,957. That&#39;s an average of £1,844 a victim. In 2023 the figures were 6,640 reports and £12.3 million lost, peaking in July and August. Those are only the people who reported it.</description>
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      <description>Lisbon charges every overnight guest €4 a night. It used to be €2. The city council voted to double it in July 2024 and the new rate started on September 1 that year, so anyone booking Lisbon now is paying the higher figure whether they notice it or not.</description>
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      <description>Notre-Dame reopened on December 8 2024, five and a half years after the fire. In its first year it took in about 11 million visitors. Before 2019 the figure was roughly 8 to 9 million. People who&#39;d watched it burn on television wanted to see it standing.</description>
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      <description>The 191st Oktoberfest ended last Sunday, October 4, after 16 days on the Theresienwiese. Munich&#39;s mayor Dominik Krause tapped the first keg at noon on September 19, and by the city&#39;s preliminary count about 7.4 million people came through. That&#39;s a record, up from 6.5 million in 2025, a jump of around 14%.</description>
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