December 31, 2010
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Aveiro – Venice of Portugal Updated: April 2, 2020 | By Claire | More Aveiro is a city in Portugal, located in the northwestern part of the country, in the region of Centro. Today there live about 55 000 inhabitants. Aveiro attracts visitors due to its unique atmosphere. Aveiro is often called as the Venice […]
Tags: 15th-century, abundant-vegetation, aveiro, blue-lagoon, city, contrasting-colors, costa-nova, dominican-monastery, historical-buildings, iberian-peninsula, maritime-museum, nature-reserve, nearby-nature, portugal, renowned-museum, salt-mines, sand-dunes, sandy-beach, sao-domingos, surf-lovers, town, typical-sign, venice, venice-of-portugal, vista-alegre, white-houses
Categories: Portugal, Sights
December 30, 2010
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Coimbra – beautiful historic city in Portugal Updated: April 2, 2020 | By Claire | More Coimbra is a beautiful historic city in Portugal. It is located in the central part of the country in the region of Braga, on the river Mondego. It has about 150 000 inhabitants. Coimbra mainly attracts tourists due to […]
Tags: capital, capital-of-portugal, celebrations-and-festivals, city, education-sciences, faculty-letters, first-friday, fitas, gala-ball, history, jesuits, medicine-sciences, monasteries, nova-coimbra, oldest-university, portugal, portuguese-kings, sciences-technology, second-semester, sport-activities, sports-sciences, town, velha, vibrant-city
Categories: Portugal, Sights
December 28, 2010
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Santa Claus Village and Park – exciting fantasy world in Finland Updated: May 25, 2020 | By Claire | More Santa Claus Village is an amusement park in Finland. It is located in the northern part of the country, in Lapland, near the town of Rovaniemi on the Arctic Circle. Santa Claus Village was formed […]
Tags: admission, amusement-park, arctic-circle, berries, cafes, exciting-fantasy-world, finland, gloves, handicrafts, hats, knitted-sweaters, lapland, local-stores, park, post-office, refreshment-facilities, rovaniemi, santa-claus-office, santa-claus-park, santa-claus-village, souvenirs, tourists, village, wooden-cottages
Categories: Amusement and Theme Parks, Finland
December 27, 2010
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Dunkerque (Dunkirk) – northern city in France Updated: July 19, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Dunkerque (or Dunkirk in English) is a city in northern France, near the border with Belgium. Administratively it is situated in Nord-Pas-de-Calais and the Nord département. Today the city has approximately 70.000 inhabitants. City of Dunkirk is situated […]
Tags: bell-tower, bullet-holes, busy-street, city, city-of-dunkirk, dunkerque, dunkirk, fortifications, france, french-port, gothic-church, horrors-of-war, jean-bart, maritime-museum, northern-france, saint-eloi, second-world-war, town, turbulent-history, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, world-heritage-site, world-war-one
Categories: France, Sights
December 17, 2010
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Therme Erding – Europe’s biggest thermal water world and sauna paradise | Germany Updated: October 27, 2020 | By Claire | More Therme Erding is a gigantic thermal world, which lies in Bavaria close to München, offers not only the longest European slide, but also the largest sauna paradise in the world. It is also […]
Tags: aquapark, bavaria, caves, europes-biggest-aquapark, germany, geysers, hot-spring, massages, north-africa, palm-trees, peak-times, rheumatism, roman-baths, sauna, sauna-paradise, saunas, skin-diseases, spine, square-meters, stonehenge, ten-thousand, thermal, thermal-water, thermal-water-world, therme-erding, water-paradise, waterfalls
Categories: Germany, Wellness, Relax & Sports
December 17, 2010
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Abruzzo National Park – natural beauty in Italy Updated: May 23, 2020 | By Claire | More The first national park of Italy is Abruzzo National Park. It was founded in September 1923 and it was the last resort of brown bears, chamois and wolves in Italy. They survived on a small island of royal […]
Tags: abruzzo, abruzzo-national-park, altitude, barrea, brown-bears, chamois, hunting-ground, information-centers, islet, italy, last-resort, mountain-goat, mountain-peaks, multimedia-presentation, narrow-gorges, national-park, nature, nature-reserve, number-11, open-valleys, peasants, peculiarities, walking-through-the-park, wolves
Categories: Italy, Nature
December 15, 2010
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Škocjan Caves in Slovenia – one of the largest known underground canyon in the world Updated: April 2, 2020 | By Claire | More Škocjan Caves is a unique cave system located in Slovenia. It is only 6 kilometers long, but leads to 200 meters below ground and it is one of the largest known […]
Tags: cave, cave-system, caves, karst, kilometers, largest-known-underground-canyon-in-the-world, largest-underground-canyon-in-the-world, map, natural-monuments, nature, skocjan, skocjan-caves, slovenia, underground-canyon, unesco, waterfalls, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Nature, Slovenia
December 14, 2010
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Grotte di Frasassi – one of the most spectacular Karst complexes in the world | Italy Updated: May 23, 2020 | By Claire | More The complex of the Frasassi Caves has been discovered in 27 September 1975 and it is one of the most spectacular Karst complexes in the world. The caves are open […]
Tags: 27-september, admission, adventure-trails, cave, caves, drops-of-water, frasassi-caves, gaze, grotte-di-frasassi, italy, narrow-pathways, nature, professional-guides, route-visitors, scenery, silence, splendid-rooms, tourist-route, underground-passages, upside-down-world, world-italy
Categories: Italy, Nature
December 7, 2010
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Sighişoara – one of the most interesting Romanian cities and birthplace of Dracula Updated: April 2, 2020 | By Claire | More Sighisoara is one of the most interesting cities in Romania. If you should choose for your trip just one town, go there. It’s not a big city (approx. 32,000 inhabitants), but it is […]
Tags: 12th-century, 13th-century, beautiful-town, birthplace-of-dracula, church-on-the-hill, city, city-clock, clock-tower, dracula, edifice, first-glance, fortifications, frescoes, high-tower, international-trains, local-restaurant, medieval-festival, medieval-weapons, romania, romanian-cities, sighisoara, stone-staircase, town, vlad-iii-the-impaler, vlad-tepes, world-heritage-site
Categories: Romania, Sights
December 5, 2010
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Storforsen rapids – the biggest rapids in Europe | Sweden Updated: April 2, 2020 | By Claire | More Storforsen rapids are not only the biggest rapids from the Nordic countries, but probably also in Europe. They are located in Sweden, in the northern part of the country, in the county of Norrbotten, about 40 […]
Tags: biggest-rapids-in-europe, europe, floods, m3, nature, nordic-countries, norrbotten, northwest, rapids, river, storforsen, sweden
Categories: Nature, Sweden