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Travel+Leisure has compiled a list of the world's best cities, as voted by users worldwide. Florence and Rome are in the "Hall of Fame" for making the list ten years in a row. Rankings…
FIND OUT MORELakes form where water fills hollows in the landscape. Some of these hollows are formed by glaciers gouging into the ground, and some are created when river valleys are blocked…
