Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
Lake Bled is the most photographed place in Slovenia, and the photograph never lies. The lake is a glacial lake in the Julian Alps, 2 km long and 1.4 km wide. In the middle of the lake is a small island with a 17th-century church. On a cliff above the eastern shore is a medieval […]
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Categories: Nature, Slovenia
Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
The water stretches in every direction, flat and silver under a wide sky. Reed beds taller than a person sway in the breeze, and the calls of pelicans and cormorants echo across the channels. In the Danube Delta, the second largest delta in Europe, the boundary between land and water dissolves entirely. Your boat glides […]
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Categories: Nature, Romania
Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
Deep in the hills of central Portugal, the Mata Nacional do Buçaco, or Bussaco National Forest, is one of the most remarkable and romanticised forests in Europe. Enclosed within a 105-hectare wall, this ancient woodland has been carefully managed by monastic orders for over 400 years, preserving a unique collection of native and exotic trees […]
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Categories: Nature, Portugal
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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