July 24, 2011
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Bruges – Venice of the North | Belgium Updated: July 25, 2020 | By Claire | More Belgian city of Bruges is often called “Venice of the North“. A number of canals cross the city and can even connect to other cities. Sailing boats on the canals of the river Reya has become a very […]
Tags: 11th-century, administrative-center, art-painters, belgium, bruges, bruggy, chocolate-sculptures, city, enemy-troops, fifteenth-century, hans-memling, international-exchange, jan-van-eyck, massive-walls, merchant-family, political-geography, pralines, reya, sailing-boats, town, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, venice-of-north, venice-of-the-north, west-flanders
Categories: Belgium, Sights
April 20, 2011
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Mdina (Silent City) – one of the most popular tourist destinations in Malta Updated: April 20, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More On the south-western part of the island of Malta there is the town of Mdina, which was the capital of Malta until the mid-16th century. However Mdina is not capital city any […]
Tags: 16th-century, arabs, aristocratic-families, aristocrats, baroque-monuments, capital-of-malta, citta-vecchia, city, independent-city, island-of-malta, malta, massive-walls, mdina, medina, middle-ages, moat, most-popular-tourist-destination, permanent-residents, rabat, sea-level, sicily, silent-city, tourist-destinations, town, valletta
Categories: Malta, Sights
April 16, 2011
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Leeds Castle – one of the most beautiful and romantic castles in Europe | United Kingdom Updated: December 28, 2020 | By Claire | More England has lots of ancient castles which form the character of the landscape. There are about a thousand in the country. The reason why so many lies in England is […]
Tags: ancient-castles, aviaries, castle, castle-rooms, castles-in-europe, current-design, endangered-species-of-birds, england, english-queens, henry-viii, island-empire, kent-uk, landscape-character, leeds-castle, manor-house, massive-walls, medieval-english, moats, most-beautiful-and-romantic-castles-in-europe, most-beautiful-castle-in-europe, most-beautiful-castle-in-united-kingdom, romantic-castles, romantic-character, treacherous-maze, united-kingdom
Categories: Sights, United Kingdom
