November 4, 2010
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Capri island – the centre of luxury | Italy Updated: January 29, 2020 | By Claire | More The picturesque island of Capri lies in the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Gulf of Naples. Not like the many islands in the vicinity, Capri has not been created by volcanic activity arose, but was separated from the […]
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Categories: Italy, Nature
October 28, 2010
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The Laurisilva forest of Madeira is a living fossil — the largest surviving tract of laurel forest in the world, a UNESCO World Heritage ecosystem that once covered much of southern Europe 15–40 million years ago but now survives almost exclusively on the Atlantic island of Madeira, where it cloaks the island’s mountainous interior in […]
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Categories: Nature, Portugal
September 7, 2010
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The white chalk cliffs of Jasmund National Park on Germany’s Rügen Island are one of northern Europe’s most dramatic coastal landscapes — gleaming white Cretaceous cliffs rising 118 metres above the Baltic Sea from ancient beech forest, immortalised in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and now a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Königsstuhl (King’s […]
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Categories: Germany, Nature
September 6, 2010
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Oia (pronounced “EE-ah”) is the most photographed village in Greece — the iconic cascade of whitewashed Cycladic houses, blue-domed churches, and pastel-coloured neoclassical captains’ mansions clinging to the northern cliffs of Santorini that produces the single most recognisable image of the Greek islands, reproduced on a million postcards, Instagram feeds, and travel magazine covers. Perched […]
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Categories: Greece, Nature, Sights
August 18, 2010
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Murano, Burano and Torcello islands – Famous Lagoon in Italy Updated: December 26, 2020 | By Claire | More If you have some more time in Venice there are several other islands that you could explore, the most popular ones are Murano, Burano and Torcello. You can visit them in the one outing by the […]
Tags: archeological-finds, art-museums, attractive-islands, blowing-glass, bridges, burano, charming-island, city, fire-and-lace, fishing-boats, fishing-village, glass-island, glass-production, glass-products, glassworks, half-day-tour, inhabitants, island, italy, lace-work, lagoon, lagoon-islands, map, murano, murano-and-burano, murano-island, nature, ponte-del-diavolo, roman-periods, s-bridge, san-martino-church, santi, single-day, three-islands, tilted-tower, time-in-venice, uninhabited, universal-judgment, venezia, venini, viator, waterways
Categories: Italy, Nature
August 2, 2010
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Borromean Islands on Lago Maggiore – a very popular tourist hotspot in Italy Updated: December 28, 2020 | By Claire | More In the western part of Lake Maggiore you will find a small grouping that is composed of three islands and two little islets. Known as the Borromean Islands, these islands only offer 20 […]
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Categories: Italy, Nature
June 6, 2010
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Filicudi – one of eight Aeolian islands near Sicily, Italy Updated: December 28, 2020 | By Claire | More The island of Filicudi is one of eight that make up the Aeolian archipelago of islands that are situated just to the north of Sicily. Filicudi is a small island which is home to only 300 […]
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Categories: Italy, Nature
