Example sentences for: oldest

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  • There is also a unique Museu Visigótico (Visigothic Art Museum) in Santo Amaro, Beja’s oldest church.

  • Here you can peer into apothecaries unchanged since the 19th century as well as some of Havana’s oldest homes.

  • Around this time the Sumerian civilization living in Mesopotamia (the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq) founded and developed the cuneiform script, the world’s oldest form of writing on record.

  • Little remains of medieval Madrid, but there are glimpses of the oldest parts of the city in the Arab walls and several attractive small plazas, as well as many other discoveries to be made in this area that extends from the River Manzanares and Palacio Real (Royal Palace, actually the legacy of the later Bourbon rulers) to the lively, congested Puerta del Sol, still the nerve center of Madrid.

  • Catalonia’s legendary founding father also gave the budding nation its flag of four horizontal red stripes on a gold field, the oldest still in use in Europe.


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