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  "textContent": "If you like bread, this annual bread cathedral might be your dream vacation destination. Every year, the Sicilian town of San Biagio Platani fills its streets with arches and sculptures built from bread, dried grains, and laurel branches. Residents spend weeks constructing them by hand, and the results are enormous, some stretching across entire streets, with columns and latticed ceilings made from braided dough. — Read the rest \n\nThe post For 400 years, this Sicilian village has built cathedrals from bread appeared first on Boing Boing.",
  "title": "For 400 years, this Sicilian village has built cathedrals from bread"
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