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Amber Processing Gallery
A key stop on Lithuania's Baltic Amber Road is an old barn that has been renovated and given a lick of yellow paint to become a workshop where raw amber is crafted.
In the 17th century there were a dozen or so such workshops, which today's Amber Processing Gallery, run by the Palanga guild of amber masters, emulates. In the late 1880s Palanga was one of the largest amber-processing centres in the Baltics, its amber products being transported to southern Russia then mailed on to the Caucasus, Germany and France. A gallery sells finished amber pieces (jewellery, sculptures, chessboards etc), as does upmarket amber jeweller Valentina ir partneriai.
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Alte Spinnerei
'Cotton to culture' is the motto of the Alte Spinnerei, a 19th-century cotton-spinning factory turned artist colony. Around 80 New Leipzig School artists, including Neo Rauch, have their studios in this huge pile of red-brick buildings, alongside designers, architects, goldsmiths and other creative types whose creations are displayed in 10 galleries. It's in the southwestern district of Plagwitz; take bus 60 from Bayrischer Platz to S-Bahnhof Plagwitz.
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De Gooyer Windmill
This 18th-century grain mill is the sole survivor of five windmills that once stood in this part of town. It moved to its current spot in 1814, when the nearby Oranje-Nassau barracks were built and blocked the wind. The mill was fully renovated in 1925 and is now a private home. Alongside, the public baths were converted into the Brouwerij ’tIJ in 1985. A maker of slurpable organic beers, the brewery offers a free tour at 4pm on Fridays.
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House Mill
The only remaining one of a trio of mills that once stood on this small island in the River Lea, the House Mill (1776) operated as a sluice tidal mill, grinding grain for a nearby distillery, until 1940. Tours, which run according to demand and last about 45 minutes, take visitors to all four floors of the mill and offer a fascinating look at traditional East End industry. There’s a small cafe and shop on site.
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Olive Wood Workshop
It's a scenic two-hour walk from Kissamos-Kastelli to Polyrrinia. To reach the Polyrrinia road, walk east along the Kissamos-Kastelli main road and turn right after the OTE (public phone company) office. You can reach the site through the village on foot, passing by the interesting Olive wood workshop of Giorgos Tsichlakis.
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Zollverein Coal Mine
The former Zollverein coal mine is a beautiful Bauhaus-style behemoth that was recognised as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2001. In operation until 1986, it's since been rebooted as a cultural hub with museums, performance spaces, artist studios, a fine restaurant and some unusual playgrounds.
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Şəbəkə Workshop
More interesting is a Şəbəkə Workshop, where local craftsmen (no English) assemble traditional stained-glass windows, slotting together hundreds of hand-carved wooden pieces to create intricate wooden frames without metal fastenings. Small examples are sold as souvenirs.
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Diamondland
If diamonds are beyond your budget, you can watch them being cut and set during daily shows at 11:00 at this vast 1000-sq-metre diamond-showroom. If they're not, this is one of the verified sales points of the Antwerp Diamond Jewellers Association (ADJA; www.adja.be), which oversees quality control.
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Frantoio Ipogeo
Worth seeing is the Frantoio Ipogeo, only one of some 35 olive presses buried in the tufa rock below the town. It's here that they pressed Gallipoli's olive oil, which was then stored in one of the 2000 cisterns carved out beneath the old town.
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windmill
Blennerville used to be the chief port of Tralee, though it has long since silted up. A 19th-century flour windmill has been restored and is the largest working mill in Ireland and Britain.
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Tímárház
The Tímárház is a folk-craft centre and workshop, where embroiderers, basket weavers, carvers and so on do their stuff in rotation.
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Fabrique des Fleurs
The real perfume production takes place at the modern Fabrique des Fleurs on the southbound N85; and at the Fragonard plant in Èze.
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Fontico
On the eastern side of Trg Brolo is the Fontico, a granary where the town's wheat was stored in the late 14th century.
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Taverna
At the southern end of Carpacciov trg is the arched Taverna, a onetime salt warehouse dating from the 15th century.
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Samekniv
Samekniv is the gallery of local Sami knifesmith Josef Per Buljo.
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