Ponta da Piedade is the most beautiful coastal landscape in the Algarve and one of the most photogenic headlands in Europe — a surreal collection of golden limestone sea stacks, arches, grottoes, and hidden beaches sculpted by the Atlantic Ocean over millions of years, clustered around a rocky point near Lagos that is at its […]
Tomášovský výhľad (Tomášov View) is the most famous and photographed viewpoint in the Slovak Paradise National Park — a dramatic rocky outcrop at 680 metres offering a jaw-dropping panorama of the Hornád River canyon, the Biele Skaly limestone cliffs, and the forested ridges of one of Central Europe’s most spectacular hiking destinations. Accessible via a […]
Crete Senesi – Siennese Clays with its diversified “lunar” landscape in Tuscany, Italy Updated: May 23, 2020 | By Claire | More Crete Senesi is the area not far from Siena, in the valley of rivers Arbia, Ombrone, and Asso. The area includes the towns like Asciano, Buonconvento, Monteroni d’Arbia, Rapolano Terme and San Giovanni […]
Ischia and Procida are the two often-overlooked gems of the Bay of Naples — Ischia, the thermal spa island of volcanic origins with its dramatic Aragonese Castle rising from the sea, and Procida, a tiny, impossibly colourful fishing island that was Italy’s Capital of Culture in 2022 and remains one of the most authentically beautiful […]
Mount Vesuvius (Monte Vesuvio) is the most famous volcano in the world — the brooding 1,281-metre giant looming over the Bay of Naples whose catastrophic eruption in AD 79 buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in metres of ash and pumice, preserving them in extraordinary detail for nearly two millennia and creating one […]
Bovški Gamsovec is one of Slovenia’s best-kept mountain secrets — a spectacular viewpoint at 2,392 metres in the heart of the Julian Alps that delivers an uninterrupted, jaw-dropping panorama of Mount Triglav, Slovenia’s highest peak and national symbol. Far less crowded than the better-known Triglav summit routes, Bovški Gamsovec offers experienced hikers a chance to […]
Kmeťov vodopád (Kmeť’s Waterfall) is the highest waterfall in Slovakia — a spectacular 80-metre cascade in the remote Kôprova Valley (Kôprová dolina) of the High Tatras, plunging down a near-vertical granite wall in one of the Tatra National Park’s most pristine and less-visited valleys. Named after the Slovak botanist and ethnographer Andrej Kmeť, this waterfall […]
Dumme Mosse is one of southern Sweden’s largest and most important wetlands — a vast nature reserve of peat bogs, marshes, and shallow lakes in Småland that is a critical habitat for migratory birds, including cranes that gather here in their thousands during the spring migration, creating one of Sweden’s most spectacular wildlife spectacles. The […]
The Gardens of Ninfa (Giardino di Ninfa) are widely considered the most romantic garden in the world — a hauntingly beautiful English-style landscape garden created among the atmospheric ruins of a medieval ghost town in the Lazio countryside, just south of Rome. Declared a Natural Monument of the Italian Republic and described by The New […]
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Protected Landscape Area of the Eastern Carpathians in Slovakia Updated: May 19, 2020 | By Claire | More Protected Landscape Area of the Eastern Carpathians (or in Slovak Chránená krajinná oblasť Východné Karpaty) is bordering the north-western part of the original territory of the national park Poloniny. The area is built of flysch formations, mainly […]
