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These communities were rather large court béguinages, a collection of simple houses centered on a church, chapel and/or garden and enclosed by a ditch or wall. These béguinages evolved to eventually contain everything from bakeries, hospitals, farms and even breweries. They offered the béguines, who were unmarried or widowed women, a free and independent life dedicated to religion.
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A wool market, a woollens weaving industry, and the cloth market all profited from the shelter of city walls, where surpluses could be safely accumulated. The city’s entrepreneurs reached out to make economic colonies of England and Scotland’s wool producing districts.
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The Louvre project has been called France’s largest cultural project abroad and allows for the licencing of the Louvre name abroad and sharing of its treasures until 2037. Already it is the largest and most visited museum in the Arabian peninsula .
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Other museums worth visiting in Berlin includes the moving Jewish Historical Museum , the German History Museum and the Stasi Museum , which documents the insidious spy and espionage activities of the old East German secret police. The Topgraphie of Terrors documents the sinister activities of the Gestspo and SS before and during the Second World War.
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Miami is a shopper’s heaven, with a dizzying variety of small boutiques, vintage shops, ethnic markets and internationally renowned designer shops.
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