The rediscovery and reburial of one of England’s most notorious kings has elevated the city above Ross Island in AntarcticaThe new grave of Richard III in Leicester Cathedral and other sites in and around the city inked to England’s final Plantagenet monarch have been included among the world’s top sites to visit,by the Smithsonian magazine.
Leicester comes in at No 12 of 25 “considerable new places to see” after the largest cave in the world in Vietnam, the Cern laboratory in Switzerland, and gorillas in east Africa and the world’s fastest rollercoaster in Abu Dhabi. It beats Ross Island in Antarctica,a natural gas fire that has been burning in the Turkmenistan desert for 40 years, and Ellis Island hospital in New York.
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Source: theguardian.com