December 31, 2011
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Seafront Zeebrugge – a maritime amusement park in Belgium Updated: December 31, 2020 | By Claire | More Seafront Zeebrugge is a marine amusement park in the town of Zeebrugge. It is located on the Belgian North Sea coast, about 110 km northwest of the capital city of Brussels. Amusement park is situated close to […]
Tags: amusement-park, belgium, bruges, city-of-brussels, closer-look, closing-time, crew-members, exhibition, fish-market, fishermen, further-information-visit, maritime-theme-park, nieuwpoort, north-sea-coast, northwest, pirate, russian-submarine, seafront-zeebrugge, submarines, theme-park, tram, zeebrugge-port
Categories: Amusement and Theme Parks, Belgium
December 30, 2011
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Huniad-Corvin Castle – one of the most enchanting Gothic castles in Europe | Romania Updated: December 30, 2020 | By Claire | More When you are going to Romania, in its part called Transylvania you can find a city of Hunedoara. This small, but nasty and dirty city would not be worth attention, if it […]
Tags: 13th-century, 14th-century, 15th-century, 17th-century, castle, castle-bran, castles-in-europe, corvin-castle, deva, dirty-city, dirty-river, john-hunyadi, kingdom-of-hungary, long-bridge, moat, romania, sight, son-matthias, steep-ravines, transylvania, worth-attention
Categories: Romania, Sights
December 29, 2011
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Climbing highlights of Europe Updated: December 29, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More It’s a little unfair to list climbing highlights in Europe, as other equally great destinations will be left out, but here is just a sample of the best places that you can climb in the Europe. However this time we are […]
Tags: ancient-greek-gods, ascent, birthplaces, cable-car, caucasus-mountains, climbers, climbing-shoes, courmayeur, giant-rock, highest-mountain-in-europe, italy-and-france, jason-blue, matterhorn, mont-blanc, mount-elbrus, mount-olympus, mountaineering, rock-climbing-equipment, walking-tour
Categories: France, Greece, Italy, Nature, United Kingdom
December 28, 2011
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Athens – one of the noisiest and most important cities in the world | Greece Updated: December 28, 2020 | By Claire | More On the Attic peninsula, near the Saronic Gulf, you can find the Greek capital Athens. It has about 5 million people, which is almost a quarter of the whole Greek population. […]
Tags: aeschylus, ancient-tragedy, athens, byzantine-empire, capital-of-greece, city, eastern-roman-empire, goddess-athena, golden-period, greece, greek-capital-athens, greek-population, millennium-bc, ottoman-domination, peisistratos, pericles, period-athens, philosopher-socrates, saronic-gulf, sights, sophocles, temple-on-the-acropolis, war-of-independence
Categories: Greece, Sights
December 25, 2011
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La Gomera – a volcanic island in the Canary archipelago | Spain Updated: December 25, 2020 | By Claire | More La Gomera is a volcanic island and the second smallest island of the Spanish Canary Islands. One third of the island is a part of the Garajonay national park (Parque nacional de Garajonay), which […]
Tags: canary-islands, dry-climate, el-silbo, garajonay-national-park, green-forests, island, la-gomera, laurel-forest, lush-vegetation, national-park, nature, northeastern-slopes, parque-nacional-de-garajonay, pleasant-holiday, reaching-heights, spain, spanish-canary-islands, square-kilometres, tree-heath, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, walking-through-the-jungle, water-regime, wet-climate
Categories: Nature, Spain
December 24, 2011
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San Lorenzo de El Escorial – one of the most popular attractions in Spain Updated: December 24, 2020 | By Claire | More Less than 50 kilometres north of Madrid lies the magnificent royal residence of El Escorial, which belongs to one of the most popular and visited attractions in Spain. About half a million […]
Tags: augustinian-monastery, de-silva, el-greco, final-resting-place, juan-bautista-de-toledo, juan-de-herrera, king-philip-ii, king-philip-ii-of-spain, monastery, monumentality, philip-ii-of-spain, rare-paintings, religious-power, san-lorenzo-de-el-escorial, sierra-de-guadarrama, sight, spain, spanish-aristocracy, tiziano-vecelli, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, world-architecture, world-heritage-list
Categories: Sights, Spain
December 23, 2011
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Gioiosa Marea – a beautiful historic town in Sicily | Italy Updated: December 23, 2020 | By Claire | More On the slightly mountainous northern coast of Sicily lies a beautiful historic town of Gioiosa Marea. It is situated directly opposite the favorite and frequently visited Aeolin Islands. It is a great place for watching […]
Tags: aeolin-islands, beautiful-sunsets, capo-calava, caves, cefalu, corridors, etna, ferries, granite-rocks, holiday-village, kilometres, marea, milazzo, peaceful-atmosphere, picturesque-beach, piraino, restaurants-cafes, romantic-restaurants, sandy-beaches, sicily-italy, spa-town, subtropical-vegetation, taormina, tindari, tourism-in-sicily, wine-shopping
Categories: Italy, Nature, Sights
December 22, 2011
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Scillato – a good starting point for interesting trips in Sicily | Italy Updated: December 22, 2020 | By Claire | More About 40 km from the northern coast of Sicily is a small inland town Scillato. It is situated directly next to the highway, after which you can get to the capital Palermo in […]
Tags: cefalu, cloak-room, enna, fortress, good-starting-point, hostel, inception, italy, main-temple, medieval-atmosphere, old-trees, palermo, parco-delle-madonie, picturesque-villages, rare-trees, sandy-beaches, sicilian-family, sicily, sicily-italy, swimming-pool, town, traditional-customs, village, winding-roads
Categories: Italy, Sights
December 22, 2011
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Hautes Fagnes National Park – the largest nature reserve in Belgium Updated: December 22, 2020 | By Claire | More At the eastern part of Belgium you can find Hautes Fagnes National Park, whose name could be literally translated as “high marsh”. It is a plateau with marshy landscape, which is also a place of […]
Tags: animal-species, belgian-province, belgium, cross-country-skiers, easter-eggs, german-lander, heaths, highest-mountain, hohes-venn, humid-climate, kempe, marked-trails, national-park, nature, nature-lovers, north-rhine-westphalia, plant-species, rare-animal, rhineland-palatinate, roe-deer, wild-boars, wild-cats, yellow-daffodil
Categories: Belgium, Nature
December 19, 2011
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Apartments for rent in Barcelona – accommodation tip | Spain Updated: December 19, 2020 | By Claire | More Holidays in Spain are unforgettable mainly because of the Spaniards themselves. Their cheerful and spontaneous personality will win you over. They are open and you can easily get in touch with them. In tourist resorts and […]
Tags: accommodation, accommodation-facilities, accommodation-options, apartments, balearic-islands, barcelona, campsites, casa-rurales, costa-del-sol, five-stars, holidays-in-spain, hotel-restaurants, hotels, medieval-castles, national-economy, parador, paradores-nacionales, quality-hotel, short-stay-apartments, spain, spaniards, spanish-phrases, term-lease, tourist-resorts, western-european-countries
Categories: Travelling Tips
