Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
The water inside the Blue Grotto glows with an electric blue that seems to come from another world. Sunlight enters through an underwater cavity and reflects off the white sand below, illuminating the sea cave in shades of silver and cobalt. Small boats carry visitors into the main arch, where the rock walls rise above […]
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Categories: Malta, Nature
Updated June 11, 2026 by europeexplored
Penyal d’Ifac (Peñón de Ifach) is the smallest Natural Park in Europe, the 332-metre-high limestone monolith rising dramatically from the Mediterranean at Calpe on Spain’s Costa Blanca that is, despite its tiny 45-hectare size, one of the most biodiverse protected areas in Spain, home to over 300 plant species including several endemics found nowhere else […]
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Categories: Nature, Spain, Wellness, Relax & Sports
Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored
Malta is a diving and history paradise, a tiny archipelago of three inhabited islands (Malta, Gozo, and Comino) in the middle of the Mediterranean whose extraordinarily clear waters, spectacular underwater limestone formations, and a density of historical sites that borders on the absurd (Malta has three UNESCO World heritage sites in a country smaller than […]
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