April 30, 2010
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Košice – the most beautiful city in Slovakia and European Capital of Culture in 2013 Updated: September 5, 2020 | By Claire | More Košice is the most beautiful city in Slovakia, a metropolis of Eastern Slovakia and the second largest city in Slovakia. Together with the French city of Marseille, it is an European […]
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Categories: Sights, Slovakia
April 29, 2010
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Dobšinská Ice Cave – the largest ice cave in Slovakia Updated: April 4, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Dobšinská Ice Cave is the largest ice cave in the Slovak Republic and one of the most important and beautiful ice caves in the world. It is located in Stratenská Highlands, on the northern slope […]
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Categories: Nature, Slovakia
April 28, 2010
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Poland is one of Europe’s most resilient and rewarding destinations — a country that has risen from the devastation of the 20th century to become one of the continent’s most dynamic economies, with beautifully reconstructed historic centres (Warsaw’s Old Town was rebuilt brick by brick from rubble after World War II and is a UNESCO […]
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Categories: All Countries, Poland
April 27, 2010
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Austria is the country of a thousand faces — an Alpine nation at the crossroads of Europe whose imperial capital, Vienna, was for centuries the political and cultural heart of a continent, whose mountains are among the most beautiful and accessible in the Alps, and whose cultural legacy (Mozart, Strauss, Klimt, Freud, and the Habsburg […]
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April 27, 2010
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Slovakia is a Little Big Country — the self-deprecating national motto — that packs the soaring peaks of the High Tatras, one of the highest concentrations of castles per capita in the world, a remarkable seven UNESCO World Heritage sites, and some of Europe’s most beautiful accessible cave systems into a country barely the size […]
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April 27, 2010
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Hungary is a country of delicious goulash, world-famous thermal baths, and a magnificent capital city, Budapest, that is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful in Europe — the Danube dividing Buda’s castle-topped hills from Pest’s grand boulevards and ruin bars, the Hungarian Parliament building reflecting in the river at night, and the steaming […]
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April 27, 2010
by europeexplored
The Czech Republic is the best beer country in the world — the birthplace of Pilsner, the nation with the highest per capita beer consumption on Earth (over 140 litres per person per year), and a land whose brewing tradition stretches back over a thousand years, producing some of the finest and most affordable beer […]
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