The Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire occupies a special place in the collective consciousness of the West, at once a dark star on
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Tunisia
Crafts and Chaos: Tunis Market
Shopping Essentials Where: Tunis, capital of Tunisia, North Africa What’s in store: Food, tourist gifts and traditional crafts like gold and weaving
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Music Travel Videos 3
Each track, many originally composed for a variety of our iconic series’, has been set to pictures of the destination.
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Roman Gladiator: Rise and Fall of El Djem
The Roman Colosseum in El Djem is one of the largest Colosseums ever built and the jewel in the crown of the Roman town of Thysdrus which once held decadent villas and dazzling mosaics. In its heyday, 30,000 bloodthirsty people would travel from vast distances to see the spectacle of man on wild beast battles.
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Desert Culture: Festival of the Sahara
Douz is an oasis at the edge of the Sahara, where palm trees out number people by 25 to 1 in a tiny population of just 12,000. Each autumn, this swells dramatically as the oasis hosts the four dayInternational Festival of the Sahara, a spectacular celebration of arts and traditions of the desert people.
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