Ponte Vecchio in Florence – the world’s most beautiful bridge | Italy

August 17, 2011 by europeexplored No Comments

Ponte Vecchio in Florence – the world’s most beautiful bridge | Italy Updated: August 18, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More If you have ever visited Florence, you surely haven’t missed one of its distinctive sights – Ponte Vecchio. It is the only bridge in Florence that was not destroyed by the Nazis during […]

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Storforsen rapids – the biggest rapids in Europe | Sweden

December 5, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

Storforsen is the largest unregulated rapid in Europe — a thundering 5-kilometre-long cascade system in Swedish Lapland where the Pite River drops 82 metres through a chaos of boulders, chutes, and thundering whitewater in one of Scandinavia’s most powerful and accessible natural spectacles. Unlike most major European rapids, Storforsen has never been harnessed for hydroelectric […]

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