Keila Waterfall (Keila juga) is one of Estonia’s most accessible and photogenic natural attractions, a graceful 6-metre cascade tumbling over the Baltic Klint escarpment in a peaceful park setting just 25 kilometres west of Tallinn. While Keila may not be Estonia’s tallest waterfall, its broad curtain of water, picturesque wooden suspension bridge, and the romantic […]
\n \n\n Updated: December 26, 2020 |\n\n\nBy Claire \n\n| \n\n\nMore\n\n \n Piazza Navona in Rome is considered by many as the most beautiful square, not only in the capital of Italy, but throughout the world. This bustling area, having the shape of an ellipse, shows two thousand years old history of Rome to its visitors. […]
The Trulli of Alberobello are one of the most distinctive architectural sights in Europe, more than 1,500 tiny, conical-roofed white limestone houses with grey stone pinnacles clustered in the narrow lanes of a hilltop town in Puglia, southern Italy, creating a UNESCO World heritage landscape that looks less like an Italian town and more like […]
Categories: Italy, Sights, Virtual Travel
Zlatá ulička (Golden Lane) is the most romantic and famous part of Prague Castle, a tiny, impossibly picturesque street of miniature 16th-century houses built directly into the castle fortifications, originally home to the castle’s goldsmiths (hence the name), later to Kafka (who lived at number 22 in 1916-1917 and wrote much of his early work […]
Categories: Czech Republic, Sights, Sights
Fingal’s Cave on the uninhabited Hebridean island of Staffa is one of Scotland’s most extraordinary geological wonders, a vast sea cave formed entirely from hexagonal basalt columns, whose natural acoustics produce an eerie cathedral-like resonance that inspired Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and captivated writers from Sir Walter Scott to Jules Verne. Accessible only by boat from […]
Categories: Caves, Nature, Nature, United Kingdom
The Mažučiai Japanese Garden is the largest Japanese garden in Europe, an extraordinary 16-hectare landscape of cherry trees, koi ponds, stone lanterns, traditional Japanese bridges, and meticulously raked gravel gardens in the countryside of western Lithuania that is the life’s work of the Lithuanian landscape architect šarūnas Kasmauskas. This improbable slice of Japan in the […]
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Updated: April 23, 2020 | By Claire | More Tindari is a small coastal town situated on a rocky hill (Capo Tindari) and contains the remnants of an ancient Greek site Tyndaris from 396 BC. Thanks to its strategic location, the city could easily control and prevent the sea between the Aeolian islands and Messina […]
Categories: Cities, Islands, Italy, Nature, Rome, Sicily, Sights, Sights
Esterházy Palace is one of the most beautiful and largest Baroque castles in Hungary, a magnificent golden palace in the town of Fertőd near the Austrian border, nicknamed the Hungarian Versailles, that served as the seat of the fabulously wealthy Esterházy family and was the workplace of Joseph Haydn for nearly 30 years. The palace, […]
Updated: May 29, 2020 | By Claire | More Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania. It lies about 90 km from Kaunas, far inland on the river Neris, just a few kilometers from the Belarusian border. The city has about 585,000 inhabitants. It is a major road and rail junction. It is important agricultural and […]
Beaufort Castle is one of Luxembourg’s most impressive medieval ruins, a dramatic 12th-century fortress complex perched on a rocky spur in the Mullerthal region, complete with a beautifully preserved Renaissance château built into its walls. Known locally as Buerg Beaufort, this dual-era castle offers visitors a rare opportunity to explore both a medieval fortress and […]
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