Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
The ferry from Tenerife cuts through Atlantic swells as La Gomera appears on the horizon, green and rugged and older than time. This island does not have sprawling resorts or crowded beaches. Instead it has plunging ravines cloaked in laurel forests where the air smells of damp earth and ancient leaves. A thick layer of […]
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Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
Lago de Sanabria – the biggest glacial lake in the Iberian Peninsula | Spain Updated: May 30, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Lago de Sanabria is the largest glacial lake in the Iberian Peninsula. It is located in Spain, in the northwestern province of Zamora, in the mountainous area of Sierra Cabrera and […]
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Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
The Serra de Tramuntana, running for 90 kilometres along the north-west coast of Majorca, is a UNESCO World heritage cultural landscape where dry-stone terraces climb impossible slopes, ancient olive trees with trunks a metre thick grow from rock, and a network of stone pathways dating back to the Arab occupation connects mountain villages that have […]
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Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
One million years ago, tectonic shifts created a shallow brackish lagoon in the heart of Andalusia that would become one of the most important nesting sites for the greater flamingo in Europe, a 1,364-hectare wetland where salt crystals float on the surface like a mirror and the pink of a million flamingo wings turns the […]
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