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PARIS THE CITY OF LOVE AND LIGHT

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                   PARIS is that the most populous city and also the capital of France. it's located within the heart of an enormous sedimentary basin with fertile soils and a temperate climate, the Paris basin, on a loop of the Seine, between its confluence with the Marne and also the Oise. Paris is additionally the capital of the Île-de-France region and also the center of the Greater Paris metropolis, created in 2016. it's divided into arrondissements, just like the cities of Lyon and Marseille, twenty in number. Administratively, the town constitutes since January 1, 2019 a collectivity with special status named: City of Paris, previously, it had been both a commune and a department. The State has particular prerogatives there exercised by the Paris Prefect of Police. the town underwent deep transformations under the Second Empire within the decades 1850 and 1860 through important works consisting particularly of the drilling of wide avenues, squares and gardens and also th

IFRANE CITY

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             Ifrane in Arabic: إفران is a city and urban commune of Morocco, with 30,000 inhabitants and located in the Middle Atlas at 1,713 meters above sea level. It is the capital of the province of Ifrane in the administrative region of Meknes. There are a thousand and one ways to discover Ifrane. The province of Ifrane, nicknamed Little Switzerland, has enormous tourist potential: varieties and diversities of lake and river landscapes as well as a milder climate. Its natural riches make it a favorite tourist center for hiking, boar hunting and its lakes are essential for fishing. Ifrane National Park is home to the largest cedar forest in the world. The human presence in the region dates back to the Neolithic as evidenced by caves such as those of Tizguite as well as archaeological remains dating back to Prehistory 50,000 years ago. the discovery of Aerial culture camps characteristic of the Paleolithic of the Maghreb by the group of researchers from the Institute of Archaeol

THE GRAY BRIDGE

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Rakotzbrücke Devil's Bridge. Gablenz, Germany. This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form a perfect circle. Nestled among the verdant foliage in Kromlau, Germany’s Kromlauer Park, is a delicately arched devil’s bridge known as the Rakotzbrücke, which was specifically built to create a circle when it is reflected in the waters beneath it. Commissioned in 1860 by the knight of the local town, the thin arch stretching over the waters of the Rakotzsee is roughly built out of varied local stone. Like many similarly precarious spans across Europe, the Rakotzbrücke is known as a “devil’s bridge,” due to the colloquialism that such bridges were so dangerous or miraculous that they must have been built by Satan. While the bridge (as with all the others) was created by mortal hands, its builders did seem to hold the aesthetics of the bridge in higher regard than its utility. Either end of the Rakotzbrücke is decorated with thin rock spires created to look lik