January 7, 2012
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Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park – the third largest national park in Finland Updated: January 7, 2020 | By Claire | More Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park is located in Finland, in the northern part of country, in western Lapland, near the town of Enontekiö. It is the third largest national park in Finland with a total area of […]
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Categories: Finland, Nature
November 15, 2011
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Dartmoor National Park – one of the most renowned picnic places in England | United Kingdom Updated: October 10, 2020 | By Claire | 2 Replies More Dartmoor National Park is a rough landscape of heaths, bogs and granite rocks, located in the county of Devon in southwest England. Granite plane covers an area of […]
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Categories: Nature, United Kingdom
April 19, 2011
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Oulanka National Park – the most beautiful and famous park in Finland Updated: January 25, 2020 | By Claire | More Oulanka National Park is considered the most beautiful and popular park in Finland. With its area of 270 km2 it is also the largest national park in the country. It was founded in 1956 […]
Tags: animal-species, arctic-circle, aventa, blueberries, cloudberries, finland, kuusamo, lapland, marshes, most-beautiful-and-famous-park, national-park, nature, nature-reserve, north-karelia, oulanka-national-park, peat-bogs, pine-forests, plant-species, plants-and-animals, pristine-conditions, russian-border, salla, skis, snowmobiles, tributaries, white-sea
Categories: Finland, Nature
September 25, 2010
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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 […]
Tags: art-and-architecture, conservation-area, continuous-nature, dune-areas, gelderland, heathland, heathlands, hoge-veluwe-national-park, last-ice-age, nationaal-park-de-hoge-veluwe, national-park, nature, nature-art, nature-reserves, netherlands, peat-bogs, plants-and-animals, private-hands, sand-dune, sculpture-garden, sint-hubertus, terminal-moraine
Categories: Nature, Netherlands
August 4, 2010
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Český Krumlov – little Prague in the south of Czech republic Updated: May 16, 2020 | By Claire | More Český Krumlov is a small city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, best known for the fine architecture and art of the historic old town and Český Krumlov Castle. Old Český Krumlov […]
Tags: alpine-meadows, baroque-opera, castle-district, cesky-krumlov, city, czech-republic, egon-schiele, golden-crown, gothic-church, growth-forests, kostel, krumlov, lakes-and-rivers, natural-habitats, peat-bogs, prague, prague-castle, south-bohemian-region, st-vitus, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, vltava, windsor-castle
Categories: Czech Republic, Sights