Košice – the most beautiful city in Slovakia and European Capital of Culture in 2013

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Košice does not shout about its beauty the way Prague or Budapest does. It reveals itself slowly, through the slant of afternoon light on Gothic spires and the echo of footsteps across the main square. St Elisabeth Cathedral dominates the skyline with its ornate altar and twisting pillars, but the real charm lies in the […]

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Danube-Auen National Park in Austria

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Danube-Auen National Park is one of Europe’s last remaining large-scale floodplain ecosystems, a 9,300-hectare protected natural paradise of meandering river channels, old-growth riparian forest, and vast water meadows stretching along the Danube between Vienna and Bratislava. One of Austria’s six national parks and part of the transboundary Ramsar wetland complex shared with Slovakia, the Donau-Auen […]

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Slovakia – little big country in heart of Europe

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Slovakia is a Little Big Country, the self-deprecating national motto, that packs the soaring peaks of the High Tatras, one of the highest concentrations of castles per capita in the world, a remarkable seven UNESCO World heritage sites, and some of Europe’s most beautiful accessible cave systems into a country barely the size of South […]

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