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From Big Ben in Peter Pan to the fairytale castle in Frozen: Disney reveals 30 real-world locations that have inspired its most-loved films over the past 100 years

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To celebrate its 100th anniversary, The Walt Disney Company has opened its vaults to reveal a list of 30 locations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa that have inspired, and featured in, its films and theme parks over the past century.

These locations and productions are presented in a series of paired photographs, so fans can compare the real-world attractions with how they’ve been reinterpreted and used by Disney’s filmmakers and designers. 

Examples include the Norwegian fortress that partly

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Six reasons why you NEED to visit Guernsey this autumn, from 27 stunning beaches to WWII time capsules and sea views that inspired French painter Renoir

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The second-largest of the Channel Islands, lying in the English Channel around 30 miles (48km) from the French coast, Guernsey offers plenty that’s comfortably familiar for British travellers, served with more than a soupcon of Gallic flair.

The island’s rugged coastline and crystalline seas inspired French Impressionist artist Pierre-August Renoir to paint several works during his stay here in 1883, and 140 years later, many of those paintings are being shown right now for the first time in an exhibition

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How a Literary Scandal Inspired a Mischievous New African Novel

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In 1968, the Malian novelist Yambo Ouologuem won France’s prestigious Prix Renaudot for a bloody satire about a fictional African country called “Bound to Violence.” Opening in mock epic style with the brutality of a medieval empire, and ending amid baroque assassinations in the mid-twentieth century, it vents its spleen in every direction: at slave traffickers, native and foreign; corrupt clerics and mercenary anthropologists; and, especially, oppressive rulers who used idyllic visions of the African past to hoodwink their countrymen.

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Megan Fox writes poetry book inspired by ‘carrying the weight’ of men’s ‘sins’

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Megan Fox is a poet and some men she’s come across will know it. 

The “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” actress has penned a book of poems called “Pretty Boys are Dangerous” that she said were written “in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence.” 

The 37-year-old went on to say in the statement about her new book, “I’ve spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from

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Inside flamboyant new Northumberland hotel The Tempus – inspired by Alice in Wonderland and full of surprises

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Quirky. Bohemian. A little bit bonkers. That’s my summing up of The Tempus, a new hotel on an expansive Northumbrian country estate a few miles from Alnwick.

The property is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s fantastical Alice-in-Wonderland world, but it’s not Alice themed.

I flew my drone up over the hotel’s grounds in the early evening, but all I could see on my screen were sheep. No white rabbits. Or Cheshire cats. Or mock turtles.

And there are no Queen of

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Texas couple spends TEN YEARS building a Bavarian CASTLE on outskirts of Austin – complete with turrets and fortified walls – after being inspired by a 1995 trip to Germany

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Decked out with turrets, a keep and fortified walls, this stately abode looks like it could have been plucked out of the pages of a fairytale. 

While it models all of the characteristics of a European castle, the princely property actually sits in the heart of Texas, with acres of countryside rolling as far as the eye can see.

The mindboggling estate was the brainchild of architect and developer Terry Young and his wife Kim. The couple ventured to Bavaria

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Heartbreaking cancer battle of girl, 9, who inspired ‘holy grail’ pill shown to annihilate ALL solid tumours

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When Anna Olivia Healey died of cancer at nine years old, her grieving parents vowed to honor their daughter’s memory and help find a way to beat the cruel disease.

Now, more than 20 years later, Steven and Barbara Healey’s goal of sparing thousands of other families from the same heartbreak looks within reach. 

Scientists on Tuesday unveiled results of a ‘cancer-killing pill’ — named in honor of the little girl from Indiana — which appears to ‘annihilate’ all types

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Inside the incredible fairytale-themed holiday resort hidden in a Canadian forest that features ‘storybook cottages’ inspired by Peter Pan, Rapunzel and Beauty and the Beast

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This holiday resort will make you feel like you’ve stepped into the pages of a fairytale.

Tucked away in a forest in the Canadian province of Alberta, Charmed Resorts brings childhood stories to life through 12 life-sized fantasy vacation rentals spread across two areas of woodland named ‘Wonder Way’ and ‘Storybook Square’.

The ‘storybook cottages’ include Belle’s Cottage on Wonder Way, inspired by Beauty and the Beast, and on Storybook Square there’s Rapunzel’s Tower, based on the high tower where

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A Shoe Entrepreneur’s Globally Inspired Barbecue

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Ten years ago, Mickey Ashmore was working in finance when he decided to start a side business selling handmade shoes under the label Sabah, which means “morning” in Turkish. Early on, he convinced a neighbor to let him borrow the parlor floor of her townhouse in the East Village to host Sunday afternoon trunk shows, which he called Sabah Sundays. At these convivial get-togethers, he served wine and snacks, played music and sold pair after pair of the leather slip-ons,

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