March 6, 2011
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Pena National Palace – one of the Seven Wonders of Portugal Updated: March 14, 2020 | By Claire | More Pena National Palace or in Portuguese Palácio Nacional da Pena is a Romanticist palace situated at the top of the rocky hill in the town of Sintra in Portugal. When the weather is good the […]
Tags: 19th-century, da-pena, government-officials, history, lisbon, middle-ages, monastery, palace, pena-national-palace, portugal, seven-wonders, seven-wonders-of-portugal, sintra, top-of-the-hill, town, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, weather
Categories: Portugal, Sights
January 28, 2011
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Rhodes is one of the most spectacular Greek islands — a sun-drenched island in the southeastern Aegean where a magnificent UNESCO-listed medieval Old Town (the largest and best-preserved walled city in Europe), stunning beaches, and the legacy of the Knights Hospitaller combine to create one of the Mediterranean’s most rewarding island destinations. Known as the […]
Tags: beaches, best-tourist-destination-in-europe, best-tourist-destinations, best-travel, colossus-of-rhodes, dodecanese-islands, eras, europe, greece, historical-monuments, inhabitants, largest-greek-island, nature, old-town, picturesque-scenery, rhodes-island, sea, seven-wonders, sun, swim, travel-destination, valley-of-the-butterflies, wonders-of-the-ancient-world, world-heritage-site
Categories: Greece, Nature
September 14, 2010
by europeexplored
Toruń is one of Poland’s most beautiful and historically significant cities — a UNESCO World Heritage Gothic masterpiece on the banks of the Vistula River whose perfectly preserved medieval Old Town of red-brick churches, merchant houses, and defensive walls is one of the finest ensembles of Gothic architecture in Europe. Birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus in […]
Tags: architecture, beautiful-cities, best-time, centuries, cities-of-poland, city, copernicus, festivals, gingerbread, gothic-buildings, hanseatic-league, heritage, most-tourists, music-theater, northern-poland, old-town, poland, seven-wonders, seven-wonders-of-poland, torun, town, unesco, vistula-river, wonders-of-poland, world-heritage, world-heritage-list, world-heritage-site
Categories: Poland, Sights
