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Extract from the Ventnor Travel Guides:
The attractive seaside resort of
VENTNOR
sits at the foot of St Boniface Down, the island's highest point at 787ft. The Down periodically disintegrates into landslides, creating the jumbled terraces known locally as the
Undercliff
, whose sheltered, south-facing aspect, mild winter temperatures and thick carpet of undergrowth have contributed to the former fishing village becoming a fashionable health spa. Thanks to these unique factors, the town possesses rather more character than the island's other resorts, its Gothic Revival buildings clinging dizzily to zigzagging bends.
The floral terraces of...
read the whole Ventnor Travel Guides...
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