Intimate rather than expansive, it's tucked inside a stone enclosure that's beguiling in its decrepitude.

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They find a shocking scene of decrepitude and decay, which Knausgaard records in lucid litanies of fact.

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In Melbourne that also means good lanes, arcades and frontages, many of which were built in the 19th century and had fallen into decrepitude.

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Many power cuts are due to the decrepitude of the grid.

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But given the decrepitude of much of its existing water infrastructure, and its profligate ways with water, its more urgent priorities are to repair and reform.

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If you yourself decide to risk a visit, be sure to stay at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana, which stubbornly retains its charms in a city of growing decrepitude.

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