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Once Home to Batman, This Faded Mansion Is Now Plagued by Real Bats

✇NYT - World
By: Leo Sands
20 September 2026 at 12:06
Officials in England are alarmed at the state of Mentmore Towers, the 19th century estate that served as Wayne Manor in the 2005 film “Batman Begins.”

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Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire, in the English countryside, in 1977.

These European Cities Say They Have Too Many Tourists. Why Are Their Airports Expanding?

✇NYT - Business
By: Lisa Abend
18 September 2026 at 09:02
Airport expansions in places like Venice, Barcelona and the Spanish island of Mallorca can undermine local efforts to restrain overtourism, and can even enable more tourists to come.

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An airplane flies above the crowded beaches of Palma, Mallorca. The airport that serves the island is among numerous European airports in tourism hot spots that are undergoing ambitious expansions.
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