January 24, 2012
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Ötztal – ski on exclusive slopes with a great elevation in Austria Updated: January 24, 2020 | By Claire | More 65-kilometres long Tyrolean valley Ötztal stretches in the Ötztal Alps massif. On its steep slopes extend exclusive pistes boasting a great elevation. Ötztal, or rather ski resorts that are located in this valley, offer […]
Tags: aqua-park, austria, austrian-alps, cross-country-skiers, cross-country-trails, elevation, glacier, glaciers, gries, icing-on-the-cake, kilometers, luxury-resort, obergurgl, off-piste, sea-level, ski, ski-activities, ski-resort, ski-resorts, ski-slopes, skiers, small-resorts, steep-slopes, water-park, winter-sports
Categories: Austria, Wellness, Relax & Sports
August 9, 2011
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Vasco da Gama Bridge – the longest bridge in Europe | Portugal Updated: August 10, 2020 | By Claire | More Vasco da Gama is very popular bridge in the world since it is the longest bridge in Europe. The construction works started in 1995 and have been completed in 1998. The beauty of the […]
Tags: anniversary, bridge, capital-city-of-portugal, forty-years, heavy-traffic, invention, kilometers, lanes-bridge, largest-bridge, lisbon, longest-bridge, portugal, private-company, river-tagus, speed-limit, technical-sight, traffic-flow, twenty-minutes, twenty-years, vasco-da-gama, vasco-da-gama-bridge, viaducts
Categories: Portugal, Sights
May 25, 2011
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Peričnik waterfall – one of the most beautiful and famous waterfall in Slovenia Updated: May 25, 2020 | By Claire | More Peričnik Waterfall is one of the most beautiful and famous waterfalls in Slovenia. It is situated in the Julian Alps, about 5 km from the village of Mojstrana. Falls from the Ice Age […]
Tags: beautiful-valley, exit-road, fauna-and-flora, green-colors, julian-alps, kilometers, national-park, natural-phenomenon, nature, pericnik-waterfall, plateau, relic, rich-fauna, slovenia, subtle-shades, tourist-destinations, triglav, triglav-national-park, vrata, waterfall, waterfalls, waterproof-jacket
Categories: Nature, Slovenia
April 20, 2011
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The town of Hornbæk in Denmark – seaside resort called “Danish Saint-Tropez” Updated: May 18, 2020 | By Claire | More Hornbæk is a pleasant town in Denmark, which is called “Danish Saint-Tropez” for its beautiful beach and unspoiled nature. It is located about 20 km from Helsingør, in the northern part of island of […]
Tags: beautiful-beach, best-beaches, blue-flag, city, copenhagen, danish, danish-saint-tropez, denmark, fish-market, hornbaek, inhabitants, island-of-denmark, kilometers, local-beach, plantage, public-forest, saint-tropez, scandinavia, sea, seaside, seaside-resort, swimmers, tourist-information-centre, town, trampoline, white-sand, windsurfing
Categories: Denmark, Nature, Sights, Virtual Travel
December 15, 2010
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The Škocjan Caves in Slovenia are one of the most extraordinary underground wonders on Earth — a UNESCO World Heritage site where the Reka River thunders through a massive subterranean canyon 146 metres deep. Forget tiny stalactite-filled passages; Škocjan delivers an underground spectacle on a truly colossal scale, with chambers so vast they could swallow […]
Tags: cave, cave-system, caves, karst, kilometers, largest-known-underground-canyon-in-the-world, largest-underground-canyon-in-the-world, map, natural-monuments, nature, skocjan, skocjan-caves, slovenia, underground-canyon, unesco, waterfalls, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Nature, Slovenia
September 29, 2010
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Pärnu is Estonia’s “Summer Capital” — a charming Baltic seaside city with a 3-kilometre white sand beach, a beautifully preserved 19th-century spa quarter of tree-lined avenues and wooden villas, and a laid-back cultural scene that transforms the city into Estonia’s most popular holiday destination every summer. With a history as a Hanseatic trading port and […]
Tags: 15th-century, 17th-century, bastions, beaches, city, crusader-fortress, estonia, fortifications, hotels, kilometers, map, medieval-monuments, parnu, red-tower, restaurants, sandy-beach, summer-capital, summer-vacation-resort, tallinn, tourists, town
Categories: Estonia, Sights
September 5, 2010
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Słowiński National Park is one of Poland’s most extraordinary natural landscapes — a UNESCO World Heritage coastal reserve on the Baltic Sea whose defining feature is its shifting sand dunes, massive golden mountains of sand up to 42 metres high that move inland at a rate of 3–10 metres per year, slowly consuming the pine […]
Tags: 5km, baltic-coast, benches, coastline, hotels, indigenous-nature, kilometers, landscape, map, national-park, nature, northern-poland, observation-towers, poland, pomeranian, resting-places, sightseeing, slowinski-national-park, slowinski-park-narodowy, tourism, tourist-trails, tourists, variability, wind-and-sand
Categories: Nature, Poland
August 24, 2010
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Ferrara – the city of the cyclists, Italy Updated: December 28, 2020 | By Claire | More The city of Ferrara can be found along the banks of the Po River, only 50 kilometers from where the river meets the sea. It is a historical town which today is home to more than 135,000 residents. […]
Tags: 14th-century, 15th-century, castello-estense, certosa, cities-in-italy, city, cyclist, cyclists, draw-bridge, emilia-romagna, emilia-romagna-italy, famous-artists, ferrara, hermitage-museum, initial-goal, italy, jewish-museum, kilometers, local-artists, main-stream, manuscripts, medieval-walls, moat, national-gallery, northern-edges, northern-italy, old-town-center, palaces, palazzo-dei-diamanti, palazzo-schifanoia, po-river, romanesque-cathedral, rusco, russian-museum, synagogue, tapestries, world-heritage, yunker
Categories: Italy, Sights
August 22, 2010
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Macocha abyss in Czech republic – the deepest abyss in Central Europe Updated: May 16, 2020 | By Claire | More The Macocha Abyss, also known as Macocha Gorge (Czech: Propast Macocha), is a sinkhole in the Moravian Karst cave system of the Czech Republic located north of the city of Brno, near the town […]
Tags: 17th-century, abyss, brno, casual-visitors, cave-system, cavers, caves, central-europe, czech-republic, gorge, kilometers, lower-bridge, macocha, moravian-karst, moravsky-kras, sinkhole, tourist-attraction, underground-passages, underground-river, upper-bridge, upper-platform, water-view
Categories: Czech Republic, Nature
July 29, 2010
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Glen Coe – a narrow valley with towering mountains on either side | Scotland, UK Updated: January 7, 2020 | By Claire | More In the Scotland Highlands, you will find the popular Glen Coe. Many people insist that the coe is perhaps one of the most beautiful locations in the entire country. The area […]
Tags: beautiful-places, ben-nevis, boulders, cauldron, committee-area, countless-visitors, county-of-argyll, giant-glacier, glen-coe, glencoe, grandeur, highlands-of-scotland, kilometers, landscape, last-ice-age, main-entrance, main-settlement, meall, moor, national-scenic-area, nature, northwesterly-direction, places-in-scotland, precipitous-mountains, river-coe, rock-climbers, rock-face, scotland, scotland-highlands, scotland-united, silurian-period, staircase, super-volcano, towering-mountains, united-kingdom, waterfalls
Categories: Nature, United Kingdom
