Aveiro is known as the Venice of Portugal — a charming city on the country’s central coast, south of Porto, whose network of picturesque canals, colourful moliceiro boats (traditional flat-bottomed vessels once used for harvesting seaweed, now converted to gondola-like tourist boats), and elegant Art Nouveau architecture make it one of the most photogenic small […]
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 […]
Santa Claus Village is one of Finland’s most popular tourist attractions — a Christmas-themed amusement park and shopping complex located on the Arctic Circle near Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland, where visitors can meet Santa Claus himself every day of the year, cross the Arctic Circle line on the village grounds, and send postcards with the […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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Abruzzo National Park is one of Italy’s oldest and most important protected areas — a 500 km² wilderness of pristine beech forests, alpine meadows, and limestone peaks in the Apennine Mountains of central Italy that is home to the critically endangered Marsican brown bear, the Apennine wolf, and the Abruzzo chamois, a goat-antelope found nowhere […]
The Škocjan Caves in Slovenia are one of the most extraordinary underground wonders on Earth — a UNESCO World Heritage site where the Reka River thunders through a massive subterranean canyon 146 metres deep. Forget tiny stalactite-filled passages; Škocjan delivers an underground spectacle on a truly colossal scale, with chambers so vast they could swallow […]
The Grotte di Frasassi are one of the most spectacular karst cave systems in the world — a vast underground complex in the Marche region of central Italy whose immense chambers include the Abisso Ancona, a single cavern so large (240 metres long, 120 metres high) that Milan’s entire Duomo could fit comfortably inside it. […]
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 […]
Storforsen is the largest unregulated rapid in Europe — a thundering 5-kilometre-long cascade system in Swedish Lapland where the Pite River drops 82 metres through a chaos of boulders, chutes, and thundering whitewater in one of Scandinavia’s most powerful and accessible natural spectacles. Unlike most major European rapids, Storforsen has never been harnessed for hydroelectric […]
