Twice each summer, Siena’s Piazza del Campo transforms into a medieval battlefield. The Palio is not a costume party. It is a bare-knuckle horse race between seventeen contrade, the city’s historic neighbourhoods, and the competition is fierce. Jockeys ride bareback around a dirt track laid over the cobblestones, whipping each other as often as they […]
Categories: Italy, Sights, Wellness, Relax & Sports
Primeval beech forests stretch across the border between Slovakia and Ukraine, their canopies forming a green cathedral that has stood for centuries. The Protected Landscape Area of the Eastern Carpathians preserves one of Europe’s last remaining virgin forests, where fallen trees are left to rot naturally and wolves still roam freely. Walking the trails, you […]
The Mud Olympics (Wattolympiade) in Brunsbüttel, Germany, is one of Europe’s quirkiest and most entertaining festivals, an annual sporting event on the North Sea mudflats where teams compete in bizarre disciplines like mud football, handcart racing, and eel wrestling in the sticky grey silt of the Wadden Sea UNESCO World heritage site. Held each summer […]
Categories: Amusement and Theme Parks, Germany
On the first weekend of July every year, the village of Východná in eastern Slovakia becomes the folkloric heart of Europe, hosting a festival that has been running continuously since 1953 and draws tens of thousands of visitors to watch traditional dancers, musicians, and craftspeople from across the continent perform in embroidered costumes that are […]
Categories: Slovakia, Wellness, Relax & Sports
