Lake Königssee in the Berchtesgaden National Park is Germany’s third deepest lake, reaching 190 metres at its maximum depth, and its famously clear, cold water is so protected that only electric-powered boats with special permits have been allowed to navigate it since the beginning of the 20th century, making it one of the cleanest lakes […]
Categories: Germany, Lakes, National Parks, Nature, Nature
The city of Elche in southern Alicante province holds a UNESCO World heritage site that is entirely unique in Europe: a network of over 200,000 date palms covering 144 agricultural plots across 500 hectares, a Moorish irrigation system still in use today, and a claim to be the largest palm grove in Europe, rivalled only […]
Categories: Sights, Spain, Wellness, Relax & Sports
Slovenia contains over 300 known waterfalls across its 20,273 square kilometres, a density matched by few countries in Europe, and the Savica Waterfall in Triglav National Park is the most famous of them all, a 78-metre double cascade that plunges into an emerald pool at the head of the Soča Valley, a place where the […]
L’Oceanogràfic is the largest aquarium in Europe, holding 42 million litres of water across 14 separate ecosystems, and its lotus-flower-shaped roof, designed by architect Félix Candela, has become the defining image of Valencia’s futuristic City of Arts and Sciences complex. Located in the dry riverbed of the former Turia River in the heart of Valencia, […]
Categories: Amusement and Theme Parks, Cities, Sights, Spain, Wellness, Relax & Sports
The Serra de Tramuntana, running for 90 kilometres along the north-west coast of Majorca, is a UNESCO World heritage cultural landscape where dry-stone terraces climb impossible slopes, ancient olive trees with trunks a metre thick grow from rock, and a network of stone pathways dating back to the Arab occupation connects mountain villages that have […]
Categories: Islands, Lakes, Mountains, Nature, Nature, Spain, Wellness, Relax & Sports
A walkway suspended over a roaring alpine river, carved into the vertical walls of a gorge over 15 metres high, was originally built in 1875 to make a geological wonder accessible to tourists who arrived by the new railway to the spa town of Bad Hofgastein, and today the Liechtenstein Gorge is still one of […]
Prague is a city of more than one hundred spires, nine historic districts, over 1,000 years of continuous urban development, and the sixth most visited city in Europe, receiving approximately 8 million tourists annually, a figure that has grown steadily since the fall of the Iron Curtain made this impossibly beautiful city accessible to the […]
Categories: Czech Republic, Sights, Sights
Slovakia has 180 registered castles and ruins, more per capita than almost any European country, and Krásna Hôrka may be the most perfectly preserved of them all, a hilltop fortress near Roʒava that was never conquered, never destroyed, and survived intact from the 14th century until a devastating fire in 2012. The castle sits on […]
The Low Tatras National Park covers 1,101 square kilometres of central Slovakia and is home to the longest cave system in the country, over 300 kilometres of marked hiking trails, and the year-round ski resort of Jasná, the largest ski area in Slovakia and one of the most important in Central Europe. Designated as a […]
Categories: Mountains, National Parks, Nature, Nature, Slovakia, Wellness, Relax & Sports
Slovakia’s oldest zoo opened in 1955 in the shadow of Bojnice Castle, a fairy-tale Gothic castle that looks like it was lifted from a Disney film, and today ZOO Bojnice is the country’s most popular zoo with over 350 species housed across 41 hectares of wooded hillside in the Strážovské Vrchy mountains. Unlike many European […]
