Luxembourg – green heart of Europe

Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored No Comments

Luxembourg is the green heart of Europe, a tiny Grand Duchy wedged between Belgium, France, and Germany that packs more wealth (it has the highest GDP per capita in the world), more history (its capital’s old town is a UNESCO World heritage site, with fortifications that earned it the nickname “the Gibraltar of the North”), […]

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Portugal – romance on west coast

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Portugal is the romance of Europe’s western edge, a country of dramatic Atlantic coastlines, golden limestone beaches, medieval hilltop castles, and the melancholic strains of fado music drifting through the narrow alleyways of Lisbon’s Alfama district at midnight. Hemmed in on one side by Spain and on the other by the vast, empty Atlantic, Portugal […]

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