The castle complex rises on Castle Hill above the Danube, a sprawling Baroque palace that dominates the Budapest skyline. From the Fisherman’s Bastion terrace the view stretches across the river to the Parliament building, the Chain Bridge, and the hills of Pest. The castle was first built in the 13th century, destroyed, rebuilt, bombed, and […]
Spruce forests stretch across the rounded summits of the Harz Mountains, their dark green broken only by the granite outcrops that punctuate the high plateau. The Harz National Park protects one of the largest continuous forested areas in Germany, a landscape of deep river valleys, waterfalls, and the iconic Brocken peak, the highest mountain in […]
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