Aveiro – Venice of Portugal

December 31, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

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 […]

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Categories: Portugal, Sights

Coimbra – beautiful historic city in Portugal

December 30, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

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 […]

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Categories: Portugal, Sights

Santa Claus Village and Park – exciting fantasy world in Finland

December 28, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

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 […]

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Categories: Amusement and Theme Parks, Finland

Dunkerque (Dunkirk) – northern city in France

December 27, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

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 […]

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Therme Erding – Europe’s biggest thermal water world and sauna paradise | Germany

December 17, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

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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Categories: Germany, Wellness, Relax & Sports

Abruzzo National Park – natural beauty in Italy

December 17, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

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 […]

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Categories: Italy, Nature

Škocjan Caves in Slovenia – one of the largest known underground canyon in the world

December 15, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

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 […]

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Categories: Nature, Slovenia

Grotte di Frasassi – one of the most spectacular Karst complexes in the world | Italy

December 14, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

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. […]

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Categories: Italy, Nature

Sighişoara – one of the most interesting Romanian cities and birthplace of Dracula

December 7, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

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 […]

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Categories: Romania, Sights

Storforsen rapids – the biggest rapids in Europe | Sweden

December 5, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

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 […]

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Categories: Nature, Sweden