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Madeira, Portugal

Madeira 🇵🇹 The Only Wine on Earth That Gets Better When Cooked

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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 52: Madeira Every serious wine on Earth is protected from heat. Winemakers build cellars underground to keep temperatures stable at twelve degrees. Heat destroys aromatics, oxidises colour, degrades acidity. Everyone knows this. Except on one Portuguese island in the mid-Atlantic, where […]

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Coastal town with whitewashed buildings on a rocky cliff, stairways and palm trees under a blue sky.

Chefchaouen 🇲🇦 The Town That Was Closed to Outsiders for 450 Years

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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 51: Chefchaouen Chefchaouen — sometimes spelled Chaouen or Xauen — is a small town in the Rif Mountains of northern Morocco, population approximately 42,000, situated at 564 metres altitude in a small valley below two mountain peaks that give the town its name (the

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Rabat, Morocco

Rabat 🇲🇦 The Capital That Contains Twelve Centuries in Twelve Kilometres

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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 50: Rabat Rabat is the political capital of Morocco, the seat of the Moroccan monarchy since 1912, and the diplomatic centre of the country, hosting over ninety embassies and giving it one of the largest concentrations of diplomatic missions in Africa. It sits on

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Casablanca's Hassan II Mosque beside the Atlantic, with a tall minaret and arched exterior along a seawall.

Casablanca 🇲🇦 The Largest City in Morocco That Barely Existed in 1907

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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 49: Casablanca Casablanca is the largest city in Morocco, the largest port on the North African Atlantic coast, and one of the largest cities in Africa. The commune has a population of approximately 3.7 million; the greater metropolitan area is close to 4.4 million.

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Harbor with numerous fishing boats docked at a marina, with white buildings and a hillside town in the background.

Tangier to Casablanca 🇲🇦 The Atlantic Gateway

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Route: Tangier → Rabat → Casablanca Total distance: approximately 340 km by road Driving time: 3.5–4 hours on the A1 motorway Alternative: Al Boraq high-speed train — Tangier to Casablanca in 2 hours 10 minutes Currency: Moroccan Dirham (MAD). 1 EUR ≈ 10–11 MAD Driving side: Right Best months: March–May, September–November The Crossing Everything changes

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A smiling woman in denim shorts and a beige shirt stands in the middle of a long, straight road through a rocky desert landscape with mountains in the distance.

Lanzarote, Tenerife, Gran Canaria 🇪🇸 🇮🇨 I Left Spain and Found Volcanoes, a Cloud Forest, and Sand Dunes That Think They’re Sahara

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Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 16 Lanzarote. Tenerife. Gran Canaria. Three islands that hold Spanish passports but answer to volcanoes, trade winds, and the Sahara. Lanzarote doesn’t look like earth I flew south from the mainland expecting more Spain. Two hours later I landed on the surface of another planet.

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Panoramic beach scene with boats on the sand, sunbathers and swimmers in the water, and a city shoreline under a bright blue sky.

Gran Canaria 🇪🇸 Six Ecosystems, Four Cultures, One Volcano

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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 48: Gran Canaria Gran Canaria is the third-largest of the seven Canary Islands — 1,560 square kilometres, roughly the size of the American state of Rhode Island — and sits approximately two hundred kilometres off the Moroccan coast, at the same latitude as the

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Coastal village perched on a steep hillside overlooking the blue ocean with terraced fields and rocky cliffs along the coast.

Tenerife 🇪🇸 The Island With Spain’s Highest Mountain and the Atlantic’s Deepest Reach

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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 47: Tenerife Tenerife is the largest of the seven Canary Islands — 2,034 square kilometres, roughly the size of the state of Luxembourg — and sits approximately three hundred kilometres off the southern Moroccan coast at the same latitude as the Sahara. It has

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Sunny narrow street lined with white buildings; a blue wall on the left with wooden windows and a green door, and green-framed windows on the right under a clear blue sky.

Lanzarote 🇪🇸 The Island One Artist Designed Himself

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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 46: Lanzarote Lanzarote is one thousand kilometres south of Madrid, one hundred and twenty-five kilometres off the coast of southern Morocco, and geologically in Africa in every sense the geology cares about. Lanzarote-born artist who came home from New York in 1968 The island

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