White chalk cliffs in Jasmund National Park in Rügen island, Germany

September 7, 2010 by europeexplored No Comments

The white chalk cliffs of Jasmund National Park on Germany’s Rügen Island are one of northern Europe’s most dramatic coastal landscapes — gleaming white Cretaceous cliffs rising 118 metres above the Baltic Sea from ancient beech forest, immortalised in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and now a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Königsstuhl (King’s […]

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