Primeval beech forests stretch across the border between Slovakia and Ukraine, their canopies forming a green cathedral that has stood for centuries. The Protected Landscape Area of the Eastern Carpathians preserves one of Europe’s last remaining virgin forests, where fallen trees are left to rot naturally and wolves still roam freely. Walking the trails, you […]
The Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge is Northern Ireland’s most thrilling short walk, a 20-metre-long suspension bridge swaying 30 metres above the churning Atlantic Ocean, connecting the mainland coast of County Antrim to the tiny rocky island of Carrickarede. Originally erected by salmon fishermen over 350 years ago, today the bridge is one of the Causeway Coast’s […]
Categories: Sights, Sights, Technical Monuments, United Kingdom
Olavinlinna Castle (Olofsborg) is the most beautiful castle in Finland, a magnificent 15th-century medieval fortress built on a rocky island in the middle of Lake Saimaa in the town of Savonlinna, whose three sturdy round towers and atmospheric stone walls rising directly from the water create one of northern Europe’s most romantic castle settings. Founded […]
The white chalk cliffs of Jasmund National Park on Germany’s R\u00fcgen Island are one of northern Europe’s most dramatic coastal landscapes, gleaming white Cretaceous cliffs rising 118 metres above the Baltic Sea from ancient beech forest, immortalised in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and now a UNESCO World heritage site. The K\u00f6nigsstuhl (King’s Chair) […]
Categories: Germany, National Parks, Nature, Nature
Muránska planina National Park is one of Slovakia’s most beautiful and least-visited protected areas, a vast limestone plateau in central Slovakia where the magnificent Muráň Castle ruins perch on a 935-metre-high ridge, wild horses (the Noriker breed, reintroduced to maintain the grassland) roam the high pastures, and the biodiversity is so exceptional that the park […]
Categories: National Parks, Nature, Nature, Slovakia
The Seegrotte (Lake Grotto) in Hinterbrühl, Austria, is home to the largest underground lake in Europe, a surreal subterranean body of crystal-clear water, 60 metres below ground, formed when a gypsum mine flooded in 1912 and creating a spectacular underground world where visitors can glide across the lake’s surface by electric boat through vast, still […]
