Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
Fourteen stone towers cut a jagged silhouette against the Tuscan sky, their medieval pinnacles rising like fingers reaching for heaven. From the ramparts of Rocca di Montestaffoli, vineyards stretch in every direction, geometric rows of Sangiovese vines fading into a golden haze. The cobbled Via San Giovanni climbs past stone houses that lean inward, their […]
Tags: 11th-century, 4th-century, attractiveness, central-italy, city, day-travel, elsa-valley, etruscan-settlement, firenze, florence, italy, kilometres, medieval-architecture, medieval-character, medieval-manhattan, medieval-monuments, pisa, quiet-place, san-gimignano, san-giovanni, san-matteo, siena, tourist-season, town, travel-tip, tuscany, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-sites, white-wine
Categories: Italy, Religious Monuments, Sights, Sights
Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
Open Air Museum Petronell-Carnuntum – Roman world in Austria Updated: October 13, 2020 | By Claire | More Just a few kilometers from the Czech borders, about 20 km west of the Slovakian capital Bratislava, on the way to Vienna, lies the small towns Petronell and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. There was, in the times of the […]
Tags: 4th-century, amber-road, amph, archaeological-park, austria, bad-deutsch-altenburg, constantine-ii, emperor-augustus, emperor-constantine, emperor-marcus-aurelius, fortification, hungarians, museum, pannonia, public-baths, reconstructed-buildings, roman-buildings, roman-empire, roman-troops, slovakian-capital, western-edge
Categories: Austria, Sights
Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp is one of the most important works of 20th-century architecture, a radical pilgrimage chapel designed by Le Corbusier in 1955 whose sweeping white concrete roof (said to be inspired by a crab shell), irregularly shaped windows of coloured glass, and organically curved walls broke every rule of traditional church […]
Tags: 4th-century, architectural-history, artistic-endeavors, charles-edouard-jeanneret, church-buildings, european-architecture, exclusivity, extreme-outcome, france, french-architect, french-architecture, history-of-architecture, history-of-the-church, le-corbusier, le-corbusiera, monumental-structure, notre-dame, notre-dame-du-haut, post-modern-architecture, remnant, roman-catholic-chapel, ronchamp, world-war-ii
Categories: France, Religious Monuments, Sights, Sights
Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
Lake Orta sits in the shadow of its more famous neighbour Lake Maggiore, and that is precisely its charm. The crowds go elsewhere, leaving this smaller lake to those who prefer quiet beauty over commercial spectacle. The water reflects the green slopes of the surrounding hills and the island of San Giulio rises from the […]
Tags: 16th-century, 4th-century, artistic-treasures, baroque-architecture, benedictine-monastery, blooming-garden, century-lake, costellation, countless-tourists, fine-resorts, glaciers, isola, italians, italy, lago-d-orta, lake-maggiore, lake-orta, lake-orta-italy, landscape, nature, northern-italy, olive-groves, orta-lago, orta-lake, picturesque-buildings, quiet-beauty, san-giulio, san-guilio, shorelines, toce, tourist-routes, tourists, unexpected-beauty
Categories: Italy, Lakes, Nature, Nature