Pollino National Park – largest national park in Italy

February 22, 2011 by europeexplored No Comments

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 […]

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Categories: Italy, Nature, Virtual Travel

Protected Landscape Area of the Eastern Carpathians in Slovakia

September 30, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

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 […]

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Hoge Veluwe National Park in Netherlands

September 25, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

Hoge Veluwe National Park is the Netherlands’ largest and most diverse protected area — a stunning 5,400-hectare mosaic of heathland, shifting sand dunes, and ancient woodland in the province of Gelderland that contains one of the world’s great art collections inside the park: the Kröller-Müller Museum, home to the second-largest collection of Van Gogh paintings […]

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Categories: Nature, Netherlands