August 13, 2010
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Lago di Garda – largest and most beautiful lake in Italy Updated: December 19, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More The largest and most beautiful Italian lake Lago di Garda is situated in the Dolomites at the foot of the mountain massifs in the northern part of the country. It is situated in the […]
Tags: 13th-century, adventure-lovers, alpine-glaciers, beach-volleyball, benaco, castle-dates, catullo, dolomites, foot-of-the-mountain, fun, garda-lago, glacier-lake, high-masses, history, hotels, interesting-places, italian-lake, italian-resorts, italy, jumper, lago-di-garda, lake, lake-garda, lake-lago, largest-lake-in-italy, lombardy, maximum-depth, mediterranean-vegetation, milan, mountain-hike, mountain-massifs, nature, northern-italy, parks-in-italy, relaxing-holidays, spa, sport, tennis, theme-parks, tourist-centers, tourist-destination, venice, virgilio, water-world, world-of-fashion
Categories: Italy, Nature
May 12, 2010
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Levoča is one of Slovakia’s most precious heritage towns — a remarkably preserved medieval trading city in the Spiš region whose Church of St. James houses the tallest wooden altar in the world (18.62 metres), a masterpiece of late Gothic carving by the legendary Master Paul of Levoča that is, astonishingly, 500 years old and […]
Tags: 15th-century, altar, burgher, charming-medieval-town, city, ctown, frescoes, gothic-cathedral, highest-altar-in-the-world, historical-monuments, inhabitants, largest-preserved-medieval-town-square-in-europe, levoca, magnificent-city, renaissance-styles, slovak-republic, slovakia, south-facade, st-jacob, stone-walls, tourist-destination, town, town-hall, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list
Categories: Sights, Slovakia
April 27, 2010
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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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Categories: All Countries, Portugal
