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Its Moorish architecture, which looks something like a setting for Arabian Nights, became renown as the place where Bo Derek showed her appreciation for Ravel’s bolero in the movie Ten.
While the plaza’s architect Boris Zerafa is a gifted “local boy,” Toronto’s other banks have not hesitated to bring in talents of international renown.
Despite its worldwide renown, Edam is still unspoiled and there are some pretty restaurants where you can enjoy lunch before heading back to the city.
Among its masterpieces of international renown are The Adoration of St. Vincent, a multi-panel work attributed to the 15th-century Portuguese master, Nuno Gonçalves, and The Temptation of St. Anthony, a fantastic hallucination by Hieronymus Bosch, tempered with humor and executed with mad genius.
Christopher Columbus, not yet a sailor of any renown, sailed to Madeira on an assignment to buy sugar cane.