July 21, 2011
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Luxury villas in Tuscany – accommodation tip | Italy Updated: November 23, 2020 | By Claire | More Tuscany is an Italian region renowned for its art, history, beautiful scenery and not least the wine (e.g. the most famous Chianti). It also includes the island of Elba. Cities in Tuscany are often surrounded by walls. […]
Tags: accommodation, architectural-gem, art-in-florence, beautiful-scenery, cathedral-baptistery, chianti-region, florence, forte-dei-marmi, island-of-elba, italian-renaissance-art, italy, landscape-tradition, luxury-villas-in-tuscany, pine-forests, ponte-vecchio-old-bridge, private-pools, puccini-opera-festival, square-of-miracles, stone-farmhouse, tourist-gem, tuscan-countryside, tuscany, tyrrhenian-sea, villas-in-tuscany
Categories: Italy, Travelling Tips
May 23, 2011
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Koli National Park – one of Finland’s best known national landscapes Updated: May 25, 2020 | By Claire | More Koli National Park (Finnish: Kolin kansallispuisto) is one of the best known protected areas in Finland. It lies on the eastern part of the country, on the southwestern shore of Lake Pielinen. Koli National Park […]
Tags: advanced-skiers, bears, beautiful-view, eskers, finland, forested-hills, hiking-trails, koli, koli-national-park, lake-pielinen, mainland, national-park, nature, one-of-finland-best-known-national-landscapes, pine-forests, sandy-islands, siliceous-rocks, southwestern-shore, square-kilometres, two-ski-resorts
Categories: Finland, Nature
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
March 31, 2011
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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 […]
Tags: amber, baltic-sahara, baltic-sea, bridge, curonian-lagoon, first-steps, holiday-resort, kursiu-nerija-national-park, lagoon, landscape, lithuania, national-park, nature, nature-reserve, peninsula, pine-forests, russia, sahara, sand, sand-dunes, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site
Categories: Lithuania, Nature
February 22, 2011
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The Sil Canyon (Cañón del Sil) is one of the most spectacular river canyons in Spain — a deep, dramatic gorge carved by the Río Sil through the Ribeira Sacra wine region of Galicia in northwestern Spain, where the river’s vertical limestone walls rise up to 500 metres above the water and are terraced with […]
Tags: 13th-century, 17th-centuries, 5km, beautiful-river, beautiful-views, boat-trip, canon-del-sil, canyon-del-sil, cloister, confluence, green-river, hikers, loureiro, monasteries, monastery, most-beautiful-river-canyon, pine-forests, rio-sil, river-canyons, river-water, santa-cristina, spain, water-reservoirs
Categories: Nature, Spain
September 6, 2010
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Veľká Fatra National Park in Slovakia – popular tourist destination for hikers and trekkers Updated: May 19, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Veľká Fatra National Park lies in central Slovakia – in Žilina and Banská Bystrica Region. The National Park was declared on 1 April 2002 as an upgrade of the Protected Landscape […]
Tags: 17th-centuries, banska-bystrica, cave, central-slovakia, eurasian-lynx, european-beech, flora-and-fauna, folk-architecture, gray-wolf, heritage-village, landscape-area, national-park, nature, pine-forests, rainfalls, rich-flora, scots-pine, slovakia, tree-location, turcianske-teplice, unesco-world-heritage, upland-meadows, velka-fatra, velka-fatra-national-park, yew-tree
Categories: Nature, Slovakia
