Góry Stołowe (Table Mountains) are one of Poland’s most unusual and photogenic landscapes, a sprawling natural park of flat-topped sandstone mountains, fantastical rock labyrinths, and deep forested gorges on the Czech border in Lower Silesia. Part of the Central Sudetes range and the only plate-structured mountains in Poland, the Table Mountains offer hiking through terrain […]
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. The waterfall consists of two cascades that plunge from the edge of the Vrtaška plateau into the Vrata Valley below. This is not merely a waterfall you […]
Mount Olympus (Ólympos) is the highest mountain in Greece and, far more significantly, the mythological home of the twelve Olympian gods, the sacred peak where Zeus ruled, Athena was born from his head, and the ancient Greeks believed the boundary between the mortal and divine worlds was at its thinnest. Rising to 2,918 metres above […]
Updated: May 11, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Biebrzanski National Park protects Poland’s largest expanse of pristine wetlands, a vast mosaic of marshes, peat bogs, and river channels that stretches across 592 square kilometres of northeastern Poland. This extraordinary landscape, carved by the meandering Biebrza River, is one of Europe’s most important strongholds […]
Kemeri National Park sprawls across the coastal lowlands of Latvia, a vast wetland wilderness where boardwalks lead through misty moors and sulphur springs bubble up from deep below the surface. Established in 1997 as the third largest national park in Latvia, it protects more than 380 square kilometres of forests, swamps, lakes, and lagoons along […]
Kuršių Nerija (Curonian Spit) National Park is one of Europe’s most unique landscapes, a 98-kilometre-long, narrow sand dune peninsula shared between Lithuania and Russia’s Kaliningrad region, where massive shifting dunes (some up to 60 metres high), ancient pine forests, and traditional fishing villages create a UNESCO World heritage landscape that is often called the Baltic […]
Deep in the hills of central Portugal, the Mata Nacional do Buçaco, or Bussaco National Forest, is one of the most remarkable and romanticised forests in Europe. Enclosed within a 105-hectare wall, this ancient woodland has been carefully managed by monastic orders for over 400 years, preserving a unique collection of native and exotic trees […]
Pollino National Park is the largest national park in Italy, a vast, rugged wilderness of nearly 2,000 square kilometres straddling the border of Calabria and Basilicata in southern Italy, where the rare Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii), a living fossil from the Ice Age, still grows on the high limestone peaks of the Pollino and Orsomarso […]
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Gauja National Park is Latvia’s largest and oldest national park, a deeply picturesque landscape of the ancient Gauja River valley, Devonian sandstone cliffs, dense forests, and three magnificent medieval castles (Turaida, Sigulda, and Krimulda) scattered across the park’s 917 square kilometres. Known as the “Switzerland of Latvia” for its unusually hilly terrain in an otherwise […]
Dunajec River Canyon is a gorge and famous tourist attraction on the border between Poland and Slovakia. Due to its beauty and uniqueness it is on the UNESCO World heritage list. The canyon separates the Małopolska Voivodship (Poland) and Prešov Region (Slovakia). It is a natural phenomenon where the Dunajec River breaks through the Pieniny […]
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