Laguna de Fuente de Piedra – one of the largest colonies of pink flamingos in Europe | Spain Updated: February 21, 2020 | By Claire | More It was back in 1988 when a 1,364 hectare parcel of land just outside of Andalucia was first designated as a preserved area in order to help protect […]
The Ruidera Lagoons (Lagunas de Ruidera) are a unique natural wonder in central Spain — a chain of 15 interconnected turquoise-blue lakes stretching for 30 kilometres along the Pinilla River valley on the border of Castilla–La Mancha, formed by travertine barriers that create a natural staircase of cascading pools reminiscent of Plitvice Lakes on a […]
Penyal d’Ifac (Peñón de Ifach) is the smallest Natural Park in Europe — the 332-metre-high limestone monolith rising dramatically from the Mediterranean at Calpe on Spain’s Costa Blanca that is, despite its tiny 45-hectare size, one of the most biodiverse protected areas in Spain, home to over 300 plant species including several endemics found nowhere […]
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, […]
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Spain is one of the most diverse and exciting countries in Europe — a sun-blessed Iberian nation whose regional identities (Catalan, Basque, Galician, Andalusian, and more) are as distinct as separate countries, whose cultural contributions range from Gaudí’s Sagrada Família to Picasso’s Guernica to the fiery flamenco of Seville, and whose landscapes encompass the snow-capped […]
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