May 16, 2011
by europeexplored
Kolossi Castle is one of the most significant medieval monuments in Cyprus — a imposing 15th-century Crusader tower house near Limassol, surrounded by flowering bougainvillea and citrus groves, that served as the Grand Commandery of the Knights Hospitaller (Knights of St. John) and was the centre of the island’s sugar and wine production during the […]
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Categories: Cyprus, Sights
May 15, 2011
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Navagio Beach — universally known as Shipwreck Beach — is the single most photographed beach in Greece and one of the most iconic coastal images in the world: a perfect crescent of impossibly white sand and electric-blue water enclosed by towering 200-metre limestone cliffs on the northwest coast of Zakynthos, with the rusting hulk of […]
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Categories: Greece, Nature
October 3, 2010
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Kmeťov vodopád (Kmeť’s Waterfall) is the highest waterfall in Slovakia — a spectacular 80-metre cascade in the remote Kôprova Valley (Kôprová dolina) of the High Tatras, plunging down a near-vertical granite wall in one of the Tatra National Park’s most pristine and less-visited valleys. Named after the Slovak botanist and ethnographer Andrej Kmeť, this waterfall […]
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Categories: Nature, Slovakia
July 5, 2010
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Lake Bled – the symbol of Slovenia Updated: March 13, 2020 | By Claire | More Bled is quite a small town (6000 inhabitants), situated about five hundred meters above the sea level, nestled in the magnificent alpine nature. It is well-known thanks to Bled lake with crystal clear water. In the middle of the […]
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Categories: Nature, Slovenia
May 5, 2010
by europeexplored
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 […]
Tags: bird-species, calpe, costa-blanca, earlier-times, endemic-species, magnificent-views, mediterranean, mediterranean-coast, nature, nature-reserve, nice-weather, penon-de-ifach, penyal-difac, protected-area, rock-formation, sea-gulls, seaside-town, spain, square-kilometers, strategic-location, surroundings, valencia, valencia-region, visual-attraction, watchtower
Categories: Nature, Spain