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
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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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
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 […]
Gouffre de Padirac is one of France’s most extraordinary natural wonders, a vast limestone chasm 103 metres deep in the Lot region of southwestern France that leads to an underground river navigable by boat through a labyrinth of spectacular cave chambers, stalactite formations, and crystalline pools. Discovered in 1889 by the explorer Édouard-Alfred Martel (the […]
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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Peričnik Waterfall is one of the most beautiful and famous waterfalls in Slovenia. It is situated in the Julian Alps, about 5 km from the village of Mojstrana. The waterfall consists of two cascades that plunge from the edge of the Vrtaška plateau into the Vrata Valley below. This is not merely a waterfall you […]
