May 17, 2010
by europeexplored
Cava Grande Cassibile – impressive canyon in Sicily, Italy Updated: February 18, 2020 | By Claire | More The Cava Grande Cassibile Canyon can be found where the Cassibile River carves its way through the Sicilian Hyblaean Mountains. At nearly 10 kilometres in length, the Cava Grande Cassibile Canyon may be considered a small canyon, […]
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Categories: Italy, Nature
May 11, 2010
by europeexplored
The Alcantara Gorge (Gole dell’Alcantara) is one of Sicily’s most dramatic natural sights — a deep, narrow canyon carved by the Alcantara River through spectacular hexagonal basalt columns formed by ancient lava flows from Mount Etna, creating a landscape of black volcanic rock walls that rise 50 metres above the rushing turquoise water. Located near […]
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Categories: Italy, Nature
April 27, 2010
by europeexplored
Austria is the country of a thousand faces — an Alpine nation at the crossroads of Europe whose imperial capital, Vienna, was for centuries the political and cultural heart of a continent, whose mountains are among the most beautiful and accessible in the Alps, and whose cultural legacy (Mozart, Strauss, Klimt, Freud, and the Habsburg […]
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Categories: All Countries, Austria
April 27, 2010
by europeexplored
Slovenia is a small country with great nature — a green jewel tucked between the Alps, the Mediterranean, and the Pannonian Plain that crams an extraordinary diversity of landscapes into an area smaller than Wales: Alpine peaks (the Julian Alps and Triglav, the national symbol), turquoise rivers (the Soča — arguably the most beautiful river […]
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Categories: All Countries, Slovenia
April 26, 2010
by europeexplored
Italy is quite simply one of the greatest travel destinations on Earth — a country that packs more UNESCO World Heritage sites (60), more artistic masterpieces, more culinary diversity, and more sheer geographic beauty into a single nation than any other on the planet. From the snow-capped Dolomites to the sun-baked beaches of Sicily, from […]
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