September 30, 2010
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Protected Landscape Area of the Eastern Carpathians in Slovakia Updated: May 19, 2020 | By Claire | More Protected Landscape Area of the Eastern Carpathians (or in Slovak Chránená krajinná oblasť Východné Karpaty) is bordering the north-western part of the original territory of the national park Poloniny. The area is built of flysch formations, mainly […]
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Categories: Nature, Slovakia
September 29, 2010
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Pärnu is Estonia’s “Summer Capital” — a charming Baltic seaside city with a 3-kilometre white sand beach, a beautifully preserved 19th-century spa quarter of tree-lined avenues and wooden villas, and a laid-back cultural scene that transforms the city into Estonia’s most popular holiday destination every summer. With a history as a Hanseatic trading port and […]
Tags: 15th-century, 17th-century, bastions, beaches, city, crusader-fortress, estonia, fortifications, hotels, kilometers, map, medieval-monuments, parnu, red-tower, restaurants, sandy-beach, summer-capital, summer-vacation-resort, tallinn, tourists, town
Categories: Estonia, Sights
September 29, 2010
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Delft is one of the most delightful small cities in the Netherlands — a perfectly preserved Dutch Golden Age town of tree-lined canals, humpbacked bridges, and gabled merchant houses that is synonymous with three things: Johannes Vermeer, Delft Blue pottery, and being the final resting place of the Dutch royal family. Often described as a […]
Tags: 14th-century, attractive-city, beautiful-views, city, city-delft, city-walls, de-roos, defensive-walls, delfland, delft, delftware, delightful-town, dutch-royal-family, molen, netherlands, nieuwe-kerk, orange-nassau, painter-vermeer, prinsenhof, regional-water-authority, rotterdam, south-holland, the-hague, tiles-porcelain, town, typical-dutch-town
Categories: Netherlands, Sights
September 28, 2010
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Tongeren is officially the oldest town in Belgium — a captivating Roman-founded city in the Flemish province of Limburg where 2,000 years of history are woven into every cobblestone street, medieval rampart, and Roman archaeological find. Best known today for its sprawling Sunday antiques market — the largest in the Benelux — Tongeren offers a […]
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Categories: Belgium, Sights
September 27, 2010
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San Gimignano – Medieval Manhattan in Italy Updated: December 20, 2020 | By Claire | More San Gimignano – the city of the beautiful towers – is a small walled medieval hill town located in north-central Italy in the province of Siena, Tuscany. The town lies 56 km south of Florence and 38 km north-west […]
Tags: 11th-century, 4th-century, attractiveness, central-italy, city, day-travel, elsa-valley, etruscan-settlement, firenze, florence, italy, kilometres, medieval-architecture, medieval-character, medieval-manhattan, medieval-monuments, pisa, quiet-place, san-gimignano, san-giovanni, san-matteo, siena, tourist-season, town, travel-tip, tuscany, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-sites, white-wine
Categories: Italy, Sights
September 25, 2010
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The windmills of Kinderdijk are the most famous Dutch landscape on Earth — 19 beautifully preserved 18th-century windmills lined up along the canals of the Alblasserwaard polder near Rotterdam, forming a UNESCO World Heritage site that is the single strongest image of the Netherlands in the global imagination. More than just a photo opportunity, Kinderdijk […]
Tags: 18th-century, best-known-tourist-site, best-time, century-system, city, concentration, confluence, cultural-heritage, dike, dordrecht, dutch-tourist, emergencies, folktale, kinderdijk, lek, lek-river, lekkerland, mid-twentieth-century, netherlands, nineteenth-century, polder, pumps, rotterdam, saint-elizabeth, saturdays, south-holland, terrible-storm, tourist-destination, tourist-sites, town, two-areas, unesco, unesco-world, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, village, windmill, windmills, windmolen, wooden-cradle, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Netherlands, Sights
September 23, 2010
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Riga – the biggest and most vibrant city in the Baltics | Latvia Updated: April 2, 2020 | By Claire | More Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia, the biggest and most vibrant city in Baltics, and an important seaport, situated on the mouth of the Daugava. It is also the largest […]
Tags: 14th-century, baltics, biggest-and-most-vibrant-city-in-the-baltics, chandeliers, city, classical-styles, coastal-resort, daugava, day-trip, gauja, historical-events, individuality, latvia, masterpieces, red-army, riga, rundale, stained-glass-windows, town, travelled-roads, trip-destinations, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, uplands
Categories: Latvia, Sights
September 23, 2010
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Tivoli – place of entertainment for wealthy Romans | Italy Updated: December 25, 2020 | By Claire | More Where the Aniene River falls from the Sabine hills, is where you will find the ancient city of Tivoli. Located only 30 kilometres from Rome, one can see the entire city in all of its glory […]
Tags: 16th-century, architectural-heritage, city, fountains, grottoes, italian-renaissance-garden, italian-town, italy, nymphs, place-of-entertainment, renaissance-architecture, roman-emperor-hadrian, rome, sabine-hills, summer-playground, tivoli, town, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-sites, villa-adriana, villa-d-este, wealthy-romans
Categories: Italy, Sights
September 16, 2010
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Ostia Antica – the harbour city of an ancient Rome | Italy Updated: December 26, 2020 | By Claire | More Just outside of the Roman suburb of Ostica, you will find the archaeological site known as Ostia Antica. Ostia Antica was the original location of a harbour where the Tiber River meets with the […]
Tags: ancient-buildings, ancient-rome, city, great-trip, harbour, harbour-city-of-an-ancient-rome, italy, magnificent-frescoes, map, mosaics, ostia, ostia-antica, pompeii, rome, rome-italy, sea-level, town, trip-destination, volcano-eruption
Categories: Italy, Sights
September 14, 2010
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Toruń is one of Poland’s most beautiful and historically significant cities — a UNESCO World Heritage Gothic masterpiece on the banks of the Vistula River whose perfectly preserved medieval Old Town of red-brick churches, merchant houses, and defensive walls is one of the finest ensembles of Gothic architecture in Europe. Birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus in […]
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Categories: Poland, Sights
