August 23, 2011
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Carcassonne – the largest preserved fortress town in Europe | France Updated: August 24, 2020 | By Claire | More Carcassonne is a city with great history, admired by some people, cursed by others. It is also a theme of a great board game Carcassonne that is often played by many enthusiastic players. Let’s travel […]
Tags: 11th-century, 19th-century, architect, board-game, carcassonne, castle-museum, cathedral-notre-dame, curious-tourists, enthusiastic-players, fragment, france, game-city, intellectual-elite, iron-age, labyrinth, largest-fortress-in-europe, medieval-city-centre, medieval-streets, old-town, reconstructions, roman-city, sight, typical-signs, viollet-le-duc
Categories: France, Sights
February 7, 2011
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Mechelen – first railway on the European continent | Belgium Updated: May 15, 2020 | By Claire | More Mechelen (Malines in French) is a charming historic city which became in the 16th century the capital of the Netherlands for some time. It is located on the banks of the river Dijle in the northern […]
Tags: banks-of-the-river, beguines, belgium, capital-brussels, capital-of-the-netherlands, cities-in-belgium, city, city-of-antwerp, de-groote, diamond-area, dijle, first-railway-on-the-european-continent, fish-market, flanders-prominent-art-city, flemish-region, gothic-cathedral, grote-markt, high-tower, hot-chocolate, irish-missionaries, iron-age, louvain, malines, mechelen, renaissance-buildings, tourist-place, town, two-bells, typical-atmosphere, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, world-heritage-site
Categories: Belgium, Sights
July 24, 2010
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Wookey Hole Caves – populat tourist attraction near Bristol, England, UK Updated: January 5, 2020 | By Claire | More Located along the southernmost edges of the Mendip Hills, you will find the village of Wookey Hole and its popular attraction, Wookey Hole Cave. The cave was formed by the River Axe as it slowly […]
Tags: archaeological-discoveries, cave-dives, caves, corn-grinding, corn-mill, countless-centuries, dawkins, england-uk, hole-cave, hot-days, hundreds-of-years, iron-age, limestone, limestone-hills, mendip-hills, nature, old-bones, paleolithic, river-axe, roman-empire, somerset-england, stephen-jones, tourist-attraction, underground-stream, underground-streams, united-kingdom, william-boyd, wookey-hole-caves
Categories: Nature, United Kingdom
July 16, 2010
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Grey Mare’s Tail Nature Reserve in Scotland, United Kingdom Updated: January 9, 2020 | By Claire | More The fifth largest waterfalls in the UK can be found within the Grey Mare’s Tail Nature Reserve in Scotland UK. The 60 meter tall waterfall plunges over the Moffat Water Valley from its source at Loch Skeen. […]
Tags: botanists, cctv-system, feral-goats, footpath, grey-mare, grey-mares-tail, hanging-valley, hiking-boots, interactive-system, iron-age, map, moffat-water, national-trust, nature, nature-reserve, peaceful-day, peregrine-falcon, peregrines, pettit, picturesque-views, s-center, scotland, scotland-uk, scotland-united, skeen, slopes, southern-scotland, treacherous-one, united-kingdom, upland-plants, valley-waterfall, walkers, walks, water-valley, waterfalls-in-the-uk, white-coomb, wild-goats, wildlife-enthusiasts
Categories: Nature, United Kingdom
