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The Anfiteatro del Berico (not pictured) was located 40 miles west of Verona's real Roman amphitheater (pictured).

‘A sucker born every minute’: The man who duped tourists with a fake Greek amphitheater

By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Of the eight TripAdvisor reviews of the amphitheater near Arcugnano, in Italy’s northern Veneto region, all give fulsome, five-star praise. “An enchanting place,” reads one review. “A world beyond space and time,” enthuses another. “Definitely one of the best places I have ever been to,” raves another. “Unique on

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The trains that allow you to fall asleep in one world and wake up in another

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: A collapsing sandcastle that trapped a teenager, the Vatican Observatory where science meets religion, plus “invisible architecture” in the African desert. Sleeper trains Few transport options capture romantic imaginations as completely as sleeper trains, those legendary locomotives that allow us to

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