Primeval beech forests stretch across the border between Slovakia and Ukraine, their canopies forming a green cathedral that has stood for centuries. The Protected Landscape Area of the Eastern Carpathians preserves one of Europe’s last remaining virgin forests, where fallen trees are left to rot naturally and wolves still roam freely. Walking the trails, you […]
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 […]
Categories: Italy, National Parks, Nature, Nature, Virtual Travel
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 on […]
Categories: Nature, Netherlands
