A thousand years of rain and frost, and the glacier that once covered the Ritten plateau melted 10,000 years ago. What it left behind is a forest of earth pillars capped by boulders that look as though a giant dropped them from a great height. The pillars cluster in a ravine above the village of […]
Fingal’s Cave on the uninhabited Hebridean island of Staffa is one of Scotland’s most extraordinary geological wonders, a vast sea cave formed entirely from hexagonal basalt columns, whose natural acoustics produce an eerie cathedral-like resonance that inspired Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and captivated writers from Sir Walter Scott to Jules Verne. Accessible only by boat from […]
Categories: Caves, Nature, Nature, United Kingdom
The Torre de Hércules (Tower of Hercules) is the oldest active lighthouse in the world, a 55-metre Roman lighthouse built in the late 1st century AD on a rocky headland in A Coruña, Galicia, northwestern Spain, that has been guiding ships into the harbour continuously for over 1,900 years. Declared a UNESCO World heritage site […]
Categories: Sights, Sights, Spain, Technical Monuments, Wellness, Relax & Sports
