September 3, 2010
by europeexplored
Chianti – the region of unique wine | Tuscany, Italy Updated: December 26, 2020 | By Claire | More In Tuscany, Italy, you will find the area that is known simply as Chianti. Every year, countless people from all over the globe make their way to Chianti, one of the most well-known wine regions of […]
Tags: arezzo, borders, bottle-of-wine, calendars, chianti, chianti-region, chianti-wine, chianti-wine-region, countryside, countryside-villages, crowds, elsa, florence, florentine, gentle-hills, globe, italy, landscape, landscapes, map, olive-groves, photographs, pistoia, postcards, region, rolling-hills, siena, stone-villages, tuscany, tuscany-italy, unique-wine, valdarno, wine, wine-area, wine-regions-of-italy, wineries-in-italy, wines, world-today
Categories: Italy, Nature
September 3, 2010
by europeexplored
Benidorm is Spain’s most famous — and most controversial — resort city: a skyline of towering skyscrapers rising from the Costa Blanca like a Mediterranean Manhattan, with more high-rise buildings per capita than any city in Europe. Love it or hate it, Benidorm is a phenomenon: two sweeping golden beaches, a year-round microclimate, and a […]
Tags: 1960s, apartment-buildings, beaches, benidorm, capita, city, costa-blanca, economy, europe, european, high-rise-buildings, holiday-resorts-in-spain, hotel-industry, hotels, impressive-mountains, las-vegas, manhattan, map, mediterranean-coastal-city, skyline, skyscrapers, spain, surrounded-by-one, urban-age
Categories: Sights, Spain
September 2, 2010
by europeexplored
Palermo – the craziest city in Europe | Sicily, Italy Updated: December 20, 2020 | By Claire | 2 Replies More Palermo is a historical city in the northwest of the island of Sicily in Italy. It is also the cultural, economic and touristic capital of Sicily. The city is noted for its rich history, […]
Tags: capital-of-sicily, capuchin-catacombs, capuchin-monastery, chiesa-della-martorana, city, city-cathedral, craziest-city, craziest-city-in-europe, europe, florentine-architect, fontana-pretoria, gancia, gastronomy, island-of-sicily, italian-language, italy, main-streets, majestic-buildings, mummies, oratorio, orto-botanico-di-palermo, palermo, piazza-pretoria, quattro-canti, renaissance-period, saint-patron, san-cataldo, san-giovanni-degli-eremiti, san-giuseppe, san-lorenzo, sicilia, sicilian-dialect, sicilian-style, sicily, sicily-italy, spanish-king, streets-of-the-city, teatro-massimo-palermo, teatro-politeama, vittorio-emanuele
Categories: Italy, Sights, Virtual Travel
September 2, 2010
by europeexplored
Budapest – Queen city on Danube River or the City of Spas | Hungary Updated: August 24, 2020 | By Claire | More Budapest is the only capital in the world boasting nearly 100 thermal wells and 12 spas, where 19 million litres of thermal water breaks to the surface every day. If you also […]
Tags: 1956-hungarian-revolution, banks-of-the-river, bridge-park, buda-castle, budapest, budapest-opera, castle-district, city, danube, eras, far-view, heart-of-the-castle, hungary, jewish-quarter, margaret-island, national-ballet, queen, queen-city-on-danube-river, rich-architecture, river, river-danube, rudas, single-city, thermal-water, turkish-baths, turkish-occupation, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Hungary, Sights
September 1, 2010
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National Park Gesäuse in Styria, Austria Updated: December 27, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More The National Park Gesäuse was founded in 2002 and is the most recent national park in Austria and is known for its steep mountains with sharp edges and rough gores. It includes parts of the Styrian communities of Admont, […]
Tags: austria, autumn-view, centuries, gesause, gores, landl, map, mountains, national-park, national-park-gesause-in-styria, nature, sharp-edges, st-gallen, steep-mountains, styria, styria-austria
Categories: Austria, Nature
August 31, 2010
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Kalkalpen National Park is Austria’s largest contiguous forest wilderness — 20,850 hectares of limestone mountains, deep gorges, and ancient beech forests in Upper Austria that form part of the UNESCO World Heritage “Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe.” One of Austria’s least-visited national parks, Kalkalpen offers a rare […]
Tags: alp, alpine, austria, brooks, butterflies, enns, flora-and-fauna, foreland, forest-area, highest-mountain, hohe-nock, mountains, national-park, national-park-kalkalpen, nature, northern-calcareous-alps, plants, point-of-view, species-of-mammals, steyr, upper-austria
Categories: Austria, Nature
August 31, 2010
by europeexplored
Hohe Tauern National Park is the largest national park in Austria and the biggest protected area in the Alps — a colossal 1,856 km² wilderness spanning the states of Salzburg, Carinthia, and Tyrol that encompasses Austria’s highest peak (Grossglockner, 3,798m), over 300 mountains above 3,000 metres, 342 glaciers, and the spectacular Grossglockner High Alpine Road […]
Tags: alpine-road, austria, biggest-national-park-of-austria, central-alps, central-europe, decades, ecology, grosglockner-hochalpenstrase, highest-mountain, hohe-tauern, krimml-waterfalls, mountain-ranges, mountains, museums, national-park, national-park-hohe-tauern, nature-reserve, palace-in-vienna, salzburg, schonbrunn-palace, spectacular-scenery, tourism, unemployment, upwards
Categories: Austria, Nature
August 31, 2010
by europeexplored
Florence – the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance Updated: December 28, 2020 | By Claire | More The city of Florence is said to be the symbol of what makes Italy so special and unique. A third of the most important artists of Europe has lived and worked in Florence. The city of Florence has […]
Tags: arno-river, art-and-architecture, beautiful-cities, boccaccio, botticelli, city, city-of-florence, claire-cesar, countless-visitors, donatello, duomo, elegant-squares, entire-community, firenze, florence, florentia, guccio-gucci, history-of-florence, italian-region, italian-renaissance, italy, leonardo-da-vinci, maria-del-fiore, medici-family, michelangelo, military-colony, monasteries, old-bridge, piazzale-michelangelo, ponte-vecchio, populous-city, prehistoric-times, renaissance-palaces, river-arno, roberto-cavalli, roman-empire, santa-maria-del-fiore, second-world-war, stone-arch-bridge, the-birthplace-of-the-italian-renaissance, tuscany-florence, wealthiest-cities, world-heritage-site
Categories: Italy, Sights
August 30, 2010
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Pisa – the city of the mariners and leaning towers, Italy Updated: December 26, 2020 | By Claire | More Along the banks of where the Arno and Serchio Rivers combine and meet with the Tyrrhenian Sea is where you will find the ancient Italian town of Pisa. The city itself was made famous for […]
Tags: 12th-century, bell-tower, carthaginians, central-italy, century-university, city, etruscan-necropolis, galileo-galilei, genoese-fleet, greek-empire, institutes-of-higher-learning, italian-city, italian-town, italy, italy-photo, italy-pisa, leaning-tower-of-pisa, leaning-towers, ligurian-sea, monumental-cemetery, morosini, naval-battles, naval-fleets, oldest-university, orto-botanico-di-pisa, palazzo-reale, piazza-dei-cavalieri, pisa, pisa-leaning-tower, pisa-tuscany-italy, prosperous-city, river-arno, romanesque-buildings, san-nicola, san-paolo, santo-stefano, scuola-normale-superiore, scuola-normale-superiore-di-pisa, st-sixtus, tower-of-pisa, university-of-pisa
Categories: Italy, Sights
August 30, 2010
by europeexplored
Lemmenjoki National Park is Finland’s largest national park and one of the most extensive wilderness areas in Europe — a 2,850 km² expanse of pristine boreal forest, vast open fells, and the wild Lemmenjoki River valley in Finnish Lapland that has been home to Sámi reindeer herders for centuries and remains one of the best […]
Tags: arctic-conditions, backwoods, birch-forests, boat-trip, brown-bear, dream-destination, finland, gold-area, golden-eagle, great-rivers, lapland, lemmenjoki, lemmenjoki-national-park, marked-trails, national-park, nature-conservation, northern-location, one-of-the-largest-in-europe, open-wilderness, park-borders, picea-abies, roadless, the-biggest-national-park-of-finland, uninhabited, ursus-arctos, whole-europe
Categories: Finland, Nature
