Forget the Taj Mahal and pyramids: Blaenavon is the place to visit

The Taj Mahal may be more conventionally beautiful and the pyramids, in 
most people's eyes, grander. The Statue of Liberty is more iconic and 
the Great Wall of China rather more breathtaking.
But yesterday politicians, academics and local people stepped forward to 
declare that a harsh, mountainous corner of south Wales was more 
important than any of them.

More important because the 33 sq km (8,000 acres) of the Blaenavon world 
heritage site was not about a beautiful tomb or building an empire, but 
about ordinary working people who were involved in an extraordinary 
enterprise.

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http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2268022,00.html