Places
- Tora, Benin, in Borgou Department
- Tora, Burkina Faso, a village
- Torà, Spain, a town and municipality
- Tora, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
- River Tora, Tuscany, Italy
- Tura, Egypt (alternative transcription), an Ancient Egyptian quarry; a modern town and maximum security prison
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“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
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They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of
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