Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
Stuibenfall – the highest waterfall in Tyrol | Austria \n \n Updated: January 16, 2020 | \n By Claire \n | \n More \n \n Stuibenfall crashes through the Otztal Alps with a 159-metre free fall that makes it the highest waterfall in Tyrol and the fourth highest in all of Austria. Located near the […]
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Updated June 12, 2026 by europeexplored
The Magdeburg Water Bridge (Wasserstraßenkreuz Magdeburg) is the longest navigable aqueduct in the world, an extraordinary 918-metre-long concrete channel that carries a river over a river, allowing cargo barges to cross high above the Elbe on Europe’s most audacious piece of waterway engineering. Opened in 2003 after nearly a century of planning, the bridge connects […]
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Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
At 380 metres of total drop, the Krimmler Waterfalls in the Hohe Tauern National Park are the highest waterfalls in Austria and the fifth highest in Europe, a three-stage cascade formed by the Krimmler Ache, a glacial stream that thunders over the edge of the cliff at 1,470 metres above sea level and plunges into […]
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Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
Dobšinská Ice Cave is not just the largest ice cave in Slovakia. It is the first cave in Europe to have electric lighting, switched on in 1887, just a year after its public opening, and a full decade before most European cities had streetlights. The cave sits on the northern slope of limestone hill Duča […]
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Categories: Caves, Nature, Nature, Slovakia