November 10, 2011
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Nitra – the oldest city in Slovakia Updated: November 10, 2020 | By Claire | More Nitra is the oldest and currently the fifth largest city in the Slovak Republic (82,661 inhabitants). It is a modern city with a rich cultural and business life. Photo licensed under the Creative Commons, created by Janos Korom Dr. […]
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Categories: Sights, Slovakia
May 27, 2011
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Błędów Desert – a unique desert area in central Europe | Poland Updated: May 3, 2020 | By Claire | More Błędów Desert (or Pustynia Błędowska in Polish) is a unique desert area in central Europe. It is located outside of the city of Olkusz, northwest of Krakow in southern Poland. Błędów Desert covers an […]
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Categories: Nature, Poland
May 5, 2011
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Tossa de Mar – one of the most popular resorts on the Costa Brava in Spain Updated: May 30, 2020 | By Claire | More One of the most popular resorts on the Costa Brava in Spain is Tossa de Mar with more than 5000 inhabitants. This former fishing village began to develop in the […]
Tags: beach, ceramics, city, clothing-jewelry, coast, costa-brava, fishing-village, fortifications, gran-playa, hotel-complexes, la-baume, local-gallery, monuments, narrow-streets, nature, promenade, relaxed-atmosphere, rich-history, scooters, sea-beach, sea-site, souvenir-shops, spain, tossa-de-mar, tourist-service, town, water-skiing, water-sports
Categories: Nature, Spain, Virtual Travel
December 27, 2010
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Dunkerque (Dunkirk) – northern city in France Updated: July 19, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Dunkerque (or Dunkirk in English) is a city in northern France, near the border with Belgium. Administratively it is situated in Nord-Pas-de-Calais and the Nord département. Today the city has approximately 70.000 inhabitants. City of Dunkirk is situated […]
Tags: bell-tower, bullet-holes, busy-street, city, city-of-dunkirk, dunkerque, dunkirk, fortifications, france, french-port, gothic-church, horrors-of-war, jean-bart, maritime-museum, northern-france, saint-eloi, second-world-war, town, turbulent-history, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, world-heritage-site, world-war-one
Categories: France, Sights
December 7, 2010
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Sighişoara – one of the most interesting Romanian cities and birthplace of Dracula Updated: April 2, 2020 | By Claire | More Sighisoara is one of the most interesting cities in Romania. If you should choose for your trip just one town, go there. It’s not a big city (approx. 32,000 inhabitants), but it is […]
Tags: 12th-century, 13th-century, beautiful-town, birthplace-of-dracula, church-on-the-hill, city, city-clock, clock-tower, dracula, edifice, first-glance, fortifications, frescoes, high-tower, international-trains, local-restaurant, medieval-festival, medieval-weapons, romania, romanian-cities, sighisoara, stone-staircase, town, vlad-iii-the-impaler, vlad-tepes, world-heritage-site
Categories: Romania, Sights
September 29, 2010
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Pärnu is Estonia’s “Summer Capital” — a charming Baltic seaside city with a 3-kilometre white sand beach, a beautifully preserved 19th-century spa quarter of tree-lined avenues and wooden villas, and a laid-back cultural scene that transforms the city into Estonia’s most popular holiday destination every summer. With a history as a Hanseatic trading port and […]
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Categories: Estonia, Sights
June 23, 2010
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Banská Štiavnica – rich golden town in Slovakia Updated: June 29, 2020 | By Claire | More One of Slovak sights which are included in UNESCO World Heritage List is a town of Banská Štiavnica, lying in the valley of Štiavnica Hills. Its growth and wealth are linked to the mining industry, mainly in the […]
Tags: assumption-of-the-virgin, assumption-of-the-virgin-mary, banska-stiavnica, basilicas, city, coat-of-arms, deep-roots, developing-science, fortifications, mining-areas, mining-industry, mining-tools, precious-metals, rich-houses, silver-and-gold, slovakia, st-catherine, townsmen, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, written-evidence
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May 18, 2010
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Krásna hôrka castle in Slovakia Updated: February 24, 2020 | By Claire | More You will find the beautiful Krásna Hôrka Castle situated within the Rožňavská kotlina basin, just to the east of Rožňava town. It is not hard to spot the Castle on account of the fact that it sits atop a mountain which […]
Tags: 14th-century, 18th-century, aristocrats, bastions, bronze-cannons, bubamara, castle, castle-games, castle-grounds, colourful-history, fortifications, horka, janos, krasna-horka, medieval-style, medieval-weapons, modern-weapons, nativity-of-the-virgin-mary, original-construction, slovak-national-museum, slovakia, turkish-threat
Categories: Sights, Slovakia
