July 26, 2011
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Maribor – the second largest city in Slovenia Updated: July 29, 2020 | By Claire | 2 Replies More Maribor, with its 100,000 inhabitants, is the second largest city in Slovenia, after the capital city of Ljubljana. But it is the largest city of Slovenian part Styria (Slovene: Štajerska). Basic information Maribor is an important […]
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Categories: Sights, Slovenia
May 13, 2011
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Castillo de Coca is one of the most beautiful medieval fortresses in Spain — a fairy-tale 15th-century Mudéjar castle in the province of Segovia, Castile and León, whose walls and towers are built not of grey stone but of warm red brick decorated with intricate geometric patterns, blind arches, and glazed tiles in the Mudéjar […]
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Categories: Sights, Spain, Virtual Travel
May 11, 2011
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Biebrzański National Park – the largest national park in Poland Updated: May 11, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Biebrzański National Park is an attractive natural area and the largest national park in Poland. It lies on the north-eastern part of the country, near the village Osowiec-Twierdza. It stretches over an area of approximately […]
Tags: 9th-september, animal-species, beaver, belarus, biebrza, biebrzanski-park-narodowy, bogs, forests, largest-national-park-in-poland, main-attraction, mosses, national-park, nature, organisms, poland, polish-national-parks, ramsar-convention, red-marsh, rich-diversity, strict-protection, swamps, twierdza, water-birds, wetlands
Categories: Nature, Poland
April 6, 2011
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The Cathedral of Monreale – one of the greatest treasures and most important attractions of Sicily, Italy Updated: September 22, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Not far from Palermo, in a small obscure town of Monreale, you can find one of the most famous monuments of the old Norman kingdom – The Cathedral […]
Tags: 12th-century, architects, byzantine-art-and-architecture, cathedral, griffon, inhabitants, instigation, italian-island, italy, main-attraction, monreale, monuments, mosaics, nave, obscure-town, palermo, royal-family, sicilia, sicily, town, urban-area, west-facade
Categories: Italy, Sights, Virtual Travel
February 19, 2011
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Ochtinská Aragonite Cave is one of the rarest cave systems in the world — one of only three aragonite caves on the planet open to the public, located in the Slovak Karst region of central Slovakia, where delicate needle-like crystals of aragonite (a rare polymorph of calcium carbonate) create surreal, star-like formations on the cave […]
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Categories: Nature, Slovakia
October 19, 2010
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Historic city of Kilkenny – popular tourist destination in Ireland Updated: April 2, 2020 | By Claire | More Historic city of Kilkenny will surprise you with its preserved medieval character and colorful streets. It was named after a monk St. Canice, whose memory still recalls the local cathedral. It is famous for history, crafts, […]
Tags: butler-family, canice, castle, city, colorful-streets, comedy-festival, crafts-design, dominican-monastery, gothic-buildings, grassy-area, heart-of-the-city, historic-city, host-city, ireland, kilkenny, kilkenny-castle, main-attraction, marble-city, medieval-castle, medieval-character, nice-weather, nicname, popular-tourist-destination, rich-merchant, river-nore, rothe
Categories: Ireland, Sights