The Gardens of Ninfa (Giardino di Ninfa) are widely considered the most romantic garden in the world, a hauntingly beautiful English-style landscape garden created among the atmospheric ruins of a medieval ghost town in the Lazio countryside, just south of Rome. Declared a Natural Monument of the Italian Republic and described by The New York […]
Categories: Gardens, Italy, Nature, Nature, Virtual Travel
The sound of the Robečský Stream grows louder as you descend into the steep, forested valley that locals call Peklo, or Hell. Despite the intimidating name, this national natural monument in the Czech Republic offers a landscape of serene beauty rather than damnation. Rocky cliffs rise on either side of the rushing water, carved by […]
Categories: Czech Republic, Nature
Gouffre de Padirac is one of France’s most extraordinary natural wonders, a vast limestone chasm 103 metres deep in the Lot region of southwestern France that leads to an underground river navigable by boat through a labyrinth of spectacular cave chambers, stalactite formations, and crystalline pools. Discovered in 1889 by the explorer Édouard-Alfred Martel (the […]
