Positano – the most beautiful town on the Amalfi Coast in Italy Updated: July 18, 2020 | By Claire | More Positano is the most beautiful town on the Italian coast of Campania. Beautiful picturesque town is situated on a steep hillside above the sea. The area was inhabited already in ancient times. Today Positano […]
Troodos National Forest Park in Cyprus Updated: May 15, 2020 | By Claire | More The highest mountains of the island is the Troodos Mountains in the western part of Cyprus. The highest peak Olympos reaches 1952 m above the sea level and you can see the northern and southern coasts from the peak. The […]
Powerscourt House and Gardens is one of the most beautiful estates in Ireland — a magnificent 18th-century Palladian mansion set within 47 acres of meticulously designed gardens in the Wicklow Mountains, ranked among the top three gardens in the world by National Geographic and voted one of the top ten houses worldwide by Lonely Planet. […]
Bärenschützklamm – the most impressive and the best developed gorge in Styria, Austria Updated: September 8, 2020 | By Claire | More Bärenschützklamm is a gorge located in Fischbacher Alps, near the town of Mixnitz, about 35 km from the capital of Styria – Graz. The brook, which flows through a gorge creates very nice […]
Rupite is one of Bulgaria’s most enigmatic destinations — an extinct volcano crater in the shadow of the Kozhuh Mountain, where steaming mineral springs, otherworldly rock formations, and the spiritual legacy of the controversial mystic Baba Vanga converge into a landscape unlike anywhere else in Europe. Located near the Greek and North Macedonian borders, Rupite […]
Zelené pleso (Green Lake) is one of the most beautiful places in the Slovak High Tatras — a shimmering emerald tarn at 1,545 metres nestling beneath the dramatic northeast face of Malý Kežmarský štít and surrounded by some of the most spectacular mountain scenery in Central Europe. The lake is the focal point of the […]
The Lascaux Caves in the Dordogne region of southwestern France contain one of the most extraordinary artistic achievements in human history — a gallery of over 600 Paleolithic wall paintings and 1,500 engravings dating back approximately 17,000 years, depicting horses, bison, deer, aurochs, and mysterious abstract symbols with a sophistication that fundamentally changed our understanding […]
Jägala Falls is Estonia’s widest and most powerful waterfall — a dramatic 8-metre-high, 50-metre-wide curtain of water thundering over a limestone escarpment just 25 kilometres east of Tallinn. While Valaste Waterfall may be taller, Jägala is arguably the more impressive spectacle, particularly during the spring snowmelt and after heavy rain when the falls transform from […]
Capri island – the centre of luxury | Italy Updated: January 29, 2020 | By Claire | More The picturesque island of Capri lies in the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Gulf of Naples. Not like the many islands in the vicinity, Capri has not been created by volcanic activity arose, but was separated from the […]
The Laurisilva forest of Madeira is a living fossil — the largest surviving tract of laurel forest in the world, a UNESCO World Heritage ecosystem that once covered much of southern Europe 15–40 million years ago but now survives almost exclusively on the Atlantic island of Madeira, where it cloaks the island’s mountainous interior in […]
