Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
A skyline of medieval spires pierces the grey northern sky above Gent, where the rivers Leie and Schelde converge in a tangle of canals. The Castle of the Counts stands guard over a city that once ranked among the wealthiest in northern Europe. Cobblestone lanes wind past guild halls draped in Flemish grandeur, while street […]
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Categories: Belgium, Sights
Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
Perched on a volcanic hill in Tuscany, Volterra has been working alabaster since the Etruscans ruled this land. The stone is translucent, warm to the touch, and carved into everything from cathedral windows to tiny figurines sold in workshop doorways. The Etruscan gate, the Porta all’Arco, still stands at the edge of the old town, […]
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Categories: Italy, Sights
Updated June 19, 2026 by europeexplored
Updated: June 29, 2020 | By Claire | More Kremnica is a historic city with a rich mining and mint tradition that stretches back over a thousand years. It is located in the central part of the Slovak Republic, in the Kremnica mountains at an altitude of 561 metres, surrounded by forested hills that once […]
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Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
Rhodes is one of the most spectacular Greek islands, a sun-drenched island in the southeastern Aegean where a magnificent UNESCO-listed medieval Old Town (the largest and best-preserved walled city in Europe), stunning beaches, and the legacy of the Knights Hospitaller combine to create one of the Mediterranean’s most rewarding island destinations. Known as the Island […]
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Updated June 11, 2026 by europeexplored
Bardejov is one of Slovakia’s best-preserved medieval cities, a UNESCO World heritage jewel in the north-eastern Šariš region whose perfectly intact central square (Radničné námestie), ringed by 46 colourful burgher houses and dominated by the magnificent Gothic basilica of St. Egidius, is considered one of the finest medieval urban ensembles in Central Europe. Along with […]
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Categories: Cities, Sights, Sights, Slovakia
Updated June 11, 2026 by europeexplored
Levoča is one of Slovakia’s most precious heritage towns, a remarkably preserved medieval trading city in the Spiš region whose Church of St. James houses the tallest wooden altar in the world (18.62 metres), a masterpiece of late Gothic carving by the legendary Master Paul of Levoča that is, astonishingly, 500 years old and still […]
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Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
The Netherlands is far more than Amsterdam’s canals and coffee shops, it is a small, densely populated, and remarkably innovative country where windmills still turn in the polders, fields of tulips paint the spring landscape in impossible colours, and a centuries-long battle against the sea has produced some of the most sophisticated water management engineering […]
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