In another part of the grounds, further learning spaces and a choir vestry will be built in the ruins of a former chapel.

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One year after the earthquake that killed an estimated 300, 000 people and transformed Port-au-Prince and several communities into ruins, Haiti continues to be buried in chaos.

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No matter where you stay in Aguas Calientes, be it hostel or highbrow, your options for actually getting up to the ruins, which are in a protected park, are two: hiking (usually overnight) or taking a bus.

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With her life in ruins, all she wants now is to be able to return to her homeland.

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Another advance, north-east out of Huambo, has passed through the ruins of Bailundo and is said to be bogged down in fighting on the road to Andulo.

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The site was originally intended to be a parking garage until construction uncovered a series of Roman ruins, now preserved in the underground Antiquarium museum.

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Like other buildings in the center of Beaune, France the Parliament was built over ruins, Roman ruins to be precise.

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