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 […]
Aveiro is known as the Venice of Portugal — a charming city on the country’s central coast, south of Porto, whose network of picturesque canals, colourful moliceiro boats (traditional flat-bottomed vessels once used for harvesting seaweed, now converted to gondola-like tourist boats), and elegant Art Nouveau architecture make it one of the most photogenic small […]
Abruzzo National Park is one of Italy’s oldest and most important protected areas — a 500 km² wilderness of pristine beech forests, alpine meadows, and limestone peaks in the Apennine Mountains of central Italy that is home to the critically endangered Marsican brown bear, the Apennine wolf, and the Abruzzo chamois, a goat-antelope found nowhere […]
Dumme Mosse is one of southern Sweden’s largest and most important wetlands — a vast nature reserve of peat bogs, marshes, and shallow lakes in Småland that is a critical habitat for migratory birds, including cranes that gather here in their thousands during the spring migration, creating one of Sweden’s most spectacular wildlife spectacles. The […]
Protected Landscape Area of the Eastern Carpathians in Slovakia Updated: May 19, 2020 | By Claire | More Protected Landscape Area of the Eastern Carpathians (or in Slovak Chránená krajinná oblasť Východné Karpaty) is bordering the north-western part of the original territory of the national park Poloniny. The area is built of flysch formations, mainly […]
Hohe Tauern National Park is the largest national park in Austria and the biggest protected area in the Alps — a colossal 1,856 km² wilderness spanning the states of Salzburg, Carinthia, and Tyrol that encompasses Austria’s highest peak (Grossglockner, 3,798m), over 300 mountains above 3,000 metres, 342 glaciers, and the spectacular Grossglockner High Alpine Road […]
Grey Mare’s Tail Nature Reserve in Scotland, United Kingdom Updated: January 9, 2020 | By Claire | More The fifth largest waterfalls in the UK can be found within the Grey Mare’s Tail Nature Reserve in Scotland UK. The 60 meter tall waterfall plunges over the Moffat Water Valley from its source at Loch Skeen. […]
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El Torcal de Antequera – popular nature reserve in Spain Updated: May 24, 2020 | By Claire | More The El Torcal de Antequera is a Spanish nature reserve which is located just outside of the city of Antequera. It is a very popular destination in Europe on account of its most unusual transformations. It […]
Serra de Tramuntana – mountains, lakes, forests and snow on the island of Majorca | Spain Updated: March 7, 2020 | By Claire | More On the island of Majorca, which is situated between Spain and the coast of Africa, one will find the mountain range known as the Serra de Tramuntana. It is the […]
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 […]
