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Generations of highly trained art historians have mistaken Venice for Portsmouth. Find out if you can tell the difference:

1. Which city is a thriving culinary centre with hundreds of top-notch restaurants vying for visitors' business - including O Sole Mio, Nicolino's and Olivio?

2. Which city centre, by contrast, offers its visitors no less than three McDonald's, a Burger King, The Old Well Pub, The Fiddler's Elbow and a nightclub called the Sahara?

3. Which city is built around an impressive canal system that links directly with the sea?

Answers:

1.Portsmouth,
2.Venice,
3. Venice, but until 1831, Portsmouth was linked via the Portsea Canal to the Solent.

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