Updated: August 15, 2020 | By Claire | More Architecture and Interior Splendour The basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore impresses every visitor from the moment they step through its ancient wooden doors into the soaring interior. The design follows the classic early Christian basilica plan with a central nave flanked by two side aisles, separated […]
Categories: Cities, Italy, Religious Monuments, Rome, Sights, Sights
Updated: July 8, 2020 | By Claire | More Muiden Castle rises from the misty meadows near Amsterdam, its round towers and crenellated walls reflected in the still waters of its moat. Known locally as Muiderslot, this perfectly preserved medieval fortress is the most visited castle in the Netherlands. Its brick walls have witnessed centuries […]
Categories: Netherlands, Sights
Updated: June 13, 2020 | By Claire | More In the county of East Sussex in south-eastern part of England, you can find allegedly the most romantic place in the United Kingdom. It is a magnificent Bodiam castle from the 14th century, which is surrounded by the gleaming moat. Around it lies a beautiful green […]
Categories: Castles and Palaces, Sights, Sights, United Kingdom
Český Šternberk Castle is one of the best-preserved Gothic castles in the Czech Republic, a magnificent 13th-century fortress dramatically perched on a rocky promontory above the Sázava River in central Bohemia, which has been continuously owned and inhabited by the same noble family (the Šternberks) for over 760 years, one of the longest continuous family […]
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Updated: July 20, 2020 | By Claire | More Just few cities in Europe and indeed in the whole world, gained such fame thanks to one building, as the Tuscan city of Pisa. By this building is obviously not meant anything other than the famous Leaning Tower. For a long period of its existence it […]
\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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
