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The Royal Monastery of Brou in Bourg-en-Bresse (pronounce the first part Bourk as they do locally) is France’s answer to the Taj Mahal, a Flamboyant Gothic masterpiece with a colourfully tiled roof built in the early XVth century as a mausoleum in memory of a beloved spouse and the only such building in France.
Exasperated inhabitants of Amsterdam, Barcelona, Prague and Venice have been very vocal recently about the damages caused by mass tourism. But they are not the only city dwellers suffering: young Spaniards from Toledo, a city that has nestled in a meander of the Taje 70 km west of Madrid for nearly 2,000 years, are fleeing the old town because, they say, “it’s just become an open-air museum.”
