December 22, 2011
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Scillato – a good starting point for interesting trips in Sicily | Italy Updated: December 22, 2020 | By Claire | More About 40 km from the northern coast of Sicily is a small inland town Scillato. It is situated directly next to the highway, after which you can get to the capital Palermo in […]
Tags: cefalu, cloak-room, enna, fortress, good-starting-point, hostel, inception, italy, main-temple, medieval-atmosphere, old-trees, palermo, parco-delle-madonie, picturesque-villages, rare-trees, sandy-beaches, sicilian-family, sicily, sicily-italy, swimming-pool, town, traditional-customs, village, winding-roads
Categories: Italy, Sights
August 3, 2011
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Edinburgh Castle – one of the most visited places in Scotland | United Kingdom Updated: August 5, 2020 | By Claire | More Edinburgh Castle, which is built on an extinct volcano, dominates the Scottish capital. The history of the castle is closely linked to the city of Edinburgh. Today it is a major tourist […]
Tags: botanical-gardens-2, cannon-ball, cannonball, castle, castle-edinburgh, city-of-edinburgh, edinburgh, edinburgh-castle, extinct-volcano, fortress, further-information-visit, king-edwin, local-guides, major-tourist-attraction, mary-stuart-queen-of-scotland, northumbria, places-in-scotland, royal-botanical-gardens, scotland, scotland-united, scottish-capital, sight, state-prison, united-kingdom, wedding-celebration
Categories: Sights, United Kingdom
July 8, 2011
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Muiden Castle – the most visited castle in the Netherlands Updated: July 8, 2020 | By Claire | More Muiden Castle (Muiderslot) is the most visited castle in the Netherlands. It is located near the capital city of Amsterdam. The first castle on this place was built around the year of 1280 by Count Floris […]
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Categories: Netherlands, Sights
May 14, 2011
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Tower of London – Royal Palace, fortress, prison, place of execution, arsenal, Royal Mint, Royal Zoo and jewel house | United Kingdom Updated: June 10, 2020 | By Claire | More There are four World Heritage Sites that are among the leading sights of London, and of those the Tower of London provides arguably the […]
Tags: anne-boleyn, arsenal, brother-richard, controversial-circumstances, crown-jewels, edward-iv, edward-v, fortress, gunpowder-plot, guy-fawkes, london, lord-protector, norman-conquest, palace-of-westminster, place-of-execution, pomp-and-circumstance, princes-in-the-tower, prison, richard-duke-of-gloucester, royal-mint, royal-palace, royal-zoo-and-jewel-house, second-wife-of-henry-viii, sights-of-london, tower-of-london, united-kingdom, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Sights, United Kingdom, Virtual Travel
April 10, 2011
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Portoferraio – the largest and capital city of the Italian island of Elba Updated: May 20, 2020 | By Claire | More Portoferraio is the largest and capital city of the Italian island of Elba. It lies on the northern coast of the island, about 25km from the mainland. In 2010 it has about 12,000 […]
Tags: capital-city-of-elba, coast, craftwork, crystal-clear-water, declivity, dive-shop, diving-schools, elba, etruscans, ferry-connections, fortress, island, island-of-elba, italian, italian-island, italy, largest-city, ligurian-sea, local-beach, old-churches, pedal-boats, pizzerias, portoferraio, restaurants-cafes, sea, seafood-dishes, seafood-specialties, town, traditional-seafood, tuscan-archipelago, water-sports, windsurfing
Categories: Italy, Nature, Sights
March 29, 2011
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Hohensalzburg Fortress (Festung Hohensalzburg) is one of the largest and best-preserved medieval castles in Europe — a colossal white-walled fortress perched 506 metres above the Baroque city of Salzburg on the Mönchsberg hill, whose massive fortifications, towers, and battlements have dominated the city skyline for over 900 years without ever being conquered by enemy forces. […]
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Categories: Austria, Sights
November 11, 2010
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Olavinlinna Castle (Olofsborg) is the most beautiful castle in Finland — a magnificent 15th-century medieval fortress built on a rocky island in the middle of Lake Saimaa in the town of Savonlinna, whose three sturdy round towers and atmospheric stone walls rising directly from the water create one of northern Europe’s most romantic castle settings. […]
Tags: axelsson, castle, castle-museum, castles, eastern-border, finland, fortress, lake-saimaa, massive-towers, medieval-castle, monarch, museum-exhibitions, nordic-countries, olavinlinna-castle, opera-festival, religious-icons, religious-objects, rocky-island, russians, savonlinna, tott, tourist-attractions
Categories: Finland, Sights
August 23, 2010
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Castell’Arquato – Roman military settlement in Italy Updated: December 28, 2020 | By Claire | More In the northern part of Italy, built upon a gentle hill is where you will find the town of Castell’Arquato. In the old town center, the highest point in the town, there is a castle that affords some of […]
Tags: arda, beautiful-countryside, catellarquato, century-tower, charming-street, city, cloister, collegiate-church, del-duca, emilia-romagna-italy, emilia-romagna-region, fortress, free-wine, frescoes, gentle-hill, historic-buildings, italy, military-settlement, music-and-wine, northern-italy, old-town-center, palazzo-pretorio, piazza-municipio, picturesque-hill, play-area, pretty-park, public-restrooms, rocca, romanesque-church, santa-maria, skyline, thursday-nights
Categories: Italy, Sights
August 11, 2010
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Grazzano Visconti is a surreal neo-Gothic fantasy village hidden in the countryside of Emilia-Romagna, Italy — a meticulously crafted ‘faux medieval’ hamlet built in the early 1900s by a visionary count. Every cobblestone, turret, and wrought-iron balcony was deliberately designed to transport visitors back to a romanticised Middle Ages, making it one of Italy’s most […]
Tags: anguissola, duke-study, fortress, galeazzo-visconti, giovanni, grazzano-visconti, italian-garden, italy, labyrinth, landmark, large-park, neo-gothic, piacenza, rio, specimens, squares, viewpoint, wife-beatrice
Categories: Italy, Sights
May 7, 2010
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Spiš castle in Slovakia – one of the largest castles in Central Europe Updated: March 8, 2020 | By Claire | More Monumental, amazing, powerful. These are attributes which can characterize Spiš Castle, the largest castle ruins in the Slovak Republic and one of the largest castle complexes in Central Europe. The castle was added […]
Tags: 4-hectares, altitude, ancient-trade-route, attributes, castle, castle-ruins, castles, central-europe, fortress, history-view, map, medieval-town, rich-history, slovak-republic, slovakia, spis-castle, unesco, world-heritage-list
Categories: Sights, Slovakia
