July 27, 2011
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The beauty and mystery of Transylvania | Romania Updated: July 29, 2020 | By Claire | More Interesting and popular tourist area of Transylvania haven’t become famous worldwide thanks to any historical monuments or natural beauty, but thanks to a well-known novel Dracula written by Bram Stoker. Perhaps everybody read this great book (including me) […]
Tags: astronomical-clock, austro-hungarian-empire, bram-stoker, castle, churches, count-dracula, ethnographic-museum, government-of-hungary, historical-monuments, horrific-acts, mysterious-castle, nature, novel-dracula, ottoman-empire, poiana-brasov, private-universities, romania, ski-resort, spectacular-peaks, that-attracts-visitors, towns, transylvania, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, vlad-tepes, wooden-walkway
Categories: Nature, Romania
July 24, 2011
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Bruges – Venice of the North | Belgium Updated: July 25, 2020 | By Claire | More Belgian city of Bruges is often called “Venice of the North“. A number of canals cross the city and can even connect to other cities. Sailing boats on the canals of the river Reya has become a very […]
Tags: 11th-century, administrative-center, art-painters, belgium, bruges, bruggy, chocolate-sculptures, city, enemy-troops, fifteenth-century, hans-memling, international-exchange, jan-van-eyck, massive-walls, merchant-family, political-geography, pralines, reya, sailing-boats, town, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, venice-of-north, venice-of-the-north, west-flanders
Categories: Belgium, Sights
June 10, 2011
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Jasovská cave – national natural monument of Slovakia Updated: June 10, 2020 | By Claire | More Jasovská cave (or Jasovská jaskyňa in Slovak) is located in the Slovak Karst, near the village Jasov, in the south-eastern part of the Slovak Republic. The cave has been known since time immemorial. There were found artifacts from […]
Tags: air-temperature, black-letters, cave, electric-lighting, hallstatt, hussites, jasovska-cave, monastery, national-natural-monument, national-natural-monument-of-slovakia, nature, neolithic, relative-humidity, slovak-karst, slovak-republic, slovakia, species-of-bats, stalactite-cave, stalactites, temperature-ranges, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, waterfalls
Categories: Nature, Slovakia
June 8, 2011
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Santiago de Compostela – a World Heritage City and pilgrimage destination | Spain Updated: June 8, 2020 | By Claire | More Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous Spanish community of Galicia. It was founded at the turn of the 4th and 5th century. According to legend, the body of the executed […]
Tags: apostle-james, architecture-in-spain, autonomous-regions, baroque-style, cathedral-of-santiago-de-compostela, christian-pilgrims, christian-spain, city, long-journey, pilgrimage-route, portico-de-la-gloria, reliquaries, roman-architecture, santiago-de-compostela, scallop-shell, spain, spanish-community, spiritual-cleansing, symbol-of-christian, town, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list
Categories: Sights, Spain, Virtual Travel
June 6, 2011
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The Trulli of Alberobello are one of the most distinctive architectural sights in Europe — more than 1,500 tiny, conical-roofed white limestone houses with grey stone pinnacles clustered in the narrow lanes of a hilltop town in Puglia, southern Italy, creating a UNESCO World Heritage landscape that looks less like an Italian town and more […]
Tags: alberobello, conservationists, countryside, elves, fairy-houses, first-glance, guesthouses, holidays, houses-in-italy, italy, pubs, puglia, reconstruction, south-of-italy, stone-structures, tolkien, tourists, trulli-di-alberobello, trulli-houses, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site
Categories: Italy, Sights, Virtual Travel
April 17, 2011
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The town of Telč – well-preserved Renaissance and Baroque houses in the Czech Republic Updated: May 16, 2020 | By Claire | More The territory of Telč was, according to archaeological excavations, inhabited already from ancient times. Exact time when the settlement was founded is not clear. Local legend says that it happened after the […]
Tags: archaeological-excavations, architectural-styles, baroque, baroque-style, bohemia, castle-church, city, city-gates, czech-republic, exact-time, fortification, frescoes, gothic, gothic-style, gradual-evolution, jesuit-college, karel-iv, legend-says-that, margrave, medieval-walls, otto-ii, pointed-arches, renaissance, telc, town, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list
Categories: Czech Republic, Sights
April 13, 2011
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Pyrenees Mountains – hiking paradise between Spain and France Updated: July 19, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Pyrenees – wild, scenic and beautiful. This mountain range forms a natural border between France and Spain and in spite of many civilization shoots it is still among the best preserved nature areas in Europe. However […]
Tags: deep-forests, deepest-canyons, france, french-side, gavarnie, geological-formations, hiking, hiking-paradise, monte-perdido, mountains, mysterious-caves, natural-border, natural-wealth, nature, nature-areas, pyrenees-mountains, snowy-peaks, spain, spanish-side, steep-cliffs, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, valle-de-ordesa, water-lakes, wild-rapids
Categories: France, Nature, Spain, Virtual Travel
March 31, 2011
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Kuršių Nerija (Curonian Spit) National Park is one of Europe’s most unique landscapes — a 98-kilometre-long, narrow sand dune peninsula shared between Lithuania and Russia’s Kaliningrad region, where massive shifting dunes (some up to 60 metres high), ancient pine forests, and traditional fishing villages create a UNESCO World Heritage landscape that is often called the […]
Tags: amber, baltic-sahara, baltic-sea, bridge, curonian-lagoon, first-steps, holiday-resort, kursiu-nerija-national-park, lagoon, landscape, lithuania, national-park, nature, nature-reserve, peninsula, pine-forests, russia, sahara, sand, sand-dunes, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site
Categories: Lithuania, Nature
March 22, 2011
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Top sights to see in Sofia | Bulgaria Updated: May 15, 2020 | By Claire | More Sofia is a beautiful metro city in Bulgaria. If you visit Sofia, you find this beautiful city lying at the foot of Vitosha, which is a beautiful mountain in Bulgaria. This capital city of Bulgaria has an excellent […]
Tags: bulgaria, bulgaria-capital, bulgarian-history, byzantine-church, capital, cyril-and-methodius, historical-buildings, medieval-church, metro-city, natural-charisma, oldest-cities, open-sky, petka, russian-church, saddlers, sofia, sofia-church, sofia-city, st-sofia, top-sights, top-sights-in-sofia, tourist-spot, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, vitosha
Categories: Bulgaria, Sights
March 6, 2011
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Pena National Palace (Palácio Nacional da Pena) is one of the most extraordinary royal residences in Europe — a riotously colourful Romanticist castle perched atop a rocky peak in the Sintra mountains above Lisbon, whose vivid yellow and red towers, ornate Manueline stonework, and eclectic blend of Gothic, Moorish, Renaissance, and Manueline architectural styles make […]
Tags: 19th-century, da-pena, government-officials, history, lisbon, middle-ages, monastery, palace, pena-national-palace, portugal, seven-wonders, seven-wonders-of-portugal, sintra, top-of-the-hill, town, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, weather
Categories: Portugal, Sights
