February 19, 2011
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Ochtinská Aragonite Cave is one of the rarest cave systems in the world — one of only three aragonite caves on the planet open to the public, located in the Slovak Karst region of central Slovakia, where delicate needle-like crystals of aragonite (a rare polymorph of calcium carbonate) create surreal, star-like formations on the cave […]
Tags: admission, aragonite, aragonite-cave, cave, caves, clusters, crystalline-formations, flowers, main-attraction, milky-way, natural-phenomenon, ochtinska-aragonite-cave, shapes, slovak-karst, slovakia, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list
Categories: Nature, Slovakia
February 7, 2011
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Mechelen – first railway on the European continent | Belgium Updated: May 15, 2020 | By Claire | More Mechelen (Malines in French) is a charming historic city which became in the 16th century the capital of the Netherlands for some time. It is located on the banks of the river Dijle in the northern […]
Tags: banks-of-the-river, beguines, belgium, capital-brussels, capital-of-the-netherlands, cities-in-belgium, city, city-of-antwerp, de-groote, diamond-area, dijle, first-railway-on-the-european-continent, fish-market, flanders-prominent-art-city, flemish-region, gothic-cathedral, grote-markt, high-tower, hot-chocolate, irish-missionaries, iron-age, louvain, malines, mechelen, renaissance-buildings, tourist-place, town, two-bells, typical-atmosphere, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, world-heritage-site
Categories: Belgium, Sights
January 17, 2011
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Kutná Hora – historic town in Czech Republic Updated: May 16, 2020 | By Claire | More Kutna Hora is a historic town in the Czech Republic, located in the Central Region, east of Prague. Town of Kutna Hora was founded in the late 13th century by German miners who began to mine for silver […]
Tags: 13th-century, baroque-architecture, cathedral-of-our-lady, cistercian-monastery, city, czech-republic, fortification, german-miners, gothic-church, historic-town, italian-court, jesuit-college, kutna-hora, middle-ages, pany, patron-saint, st-james, town, underground-city, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, ursuline-convent
Categories: Czech Republic, Sights
January 17, 2011
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Corsica – the pearl of Mediterranean Sea | France Updated: July 19, 2020 | By Claire | More Corsica is an island located in the western part of Mediterranean Sea and belongs to France. With its area of 8680 km² is the 4th largest island in Mediterranean Sea. There are more than 250 thousand inhabitants […]
Tags: administrative-center, ancient-greece, bastia-corsica, bonifacio-corsica, carthaginians, corsica, etruscans, france, gulf-port, high-mountains, island, island-of-corsica, largest-island-in-mediterranean-sea, mediterranean-sea, menhirs, monte-cinto, plants-and-animals, sea-eagles, sea-france, the-pearl-of-mediterranean-sea, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, unesco-world-heritage-site, world-heritage-list
Categories: France, Nature
January 13, 2011
by europeexplored
The Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž are one of Central Europe’s finest Baroque ensembles — a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Czech Republic’s Moravian region where the magnificent Archbishop’s Chateau (used as a filming location for Amadeus) is complemented by two extraordinary gardens: the formal Pleasure Garden (one of the best-preserved Baroque gardens in […]
Tags: 17th-century, antique-statues, baroque-garden, beautiful-places, castle, city, czech-republic, flower-garden, fruit-and-vegetable, garden, gardens-and-castle-at-kromeriz, kromeriz, monuments, moravia, national-monument, olomouc, rare-trees, roundel, thirty-years, town, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, vegetable-gardens
Categories: Czech Republic, Nature, Sights
January 12, 2011
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Pirin National Park in one of the highest mountains in Europe | Bulgaria Updated: May 15, 2020 | By Claire | More Pirin National Park is a part of one of the highest mountains in Europe – Pirin Mountains located in southwestern Bulgaria. The highest mountain peak is Pirin Vichren (2914). The big area of […]
Tags: bulgaria, caves, endemic, flora, glacial-lakes, highest-mountain-peak, highest-mountains-in-europe, national-park, pirin-mountains, pirin-national-park, rare-species, ski-resorts, southwestern-bulgaria, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, waterfalls, world-heritage-list
Categories: Bulgaria, Nature
January 10, 2011
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The Wadden Sea (Waddenzee) is one of the world’s most extraordinary and productive coastal ecosystems — a UNESCO World Heritage tidal flat system stretching 500 kilometres along the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark, where 10–12 million migratory birds stop each year to refuel on one of the planet’s greatest avian migration highways. This […]
Tags: biosphere-reserve, coastal-plain, den-helder, dries, dutch-coast, fauna-and-flora, flora-and-fauna, habitat, moist-land, mussels, netherlands, north-sea, outflow, river-ems, shock-waves, snails, tourist-area, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, unique-natural-habitat, wadden-sea, waddenzee
Categories: Nature, Netherlands
January 10, 2011
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Dunajec River Canyon in Pieniny national park in Slovakia Updated: June 29, 2020 | By Claire | More Dunajec River Canyon is a gorge and a famous tourist attraction on the borders between Poland and Slovakia. Due to its beauty and uniqueness of Dunajec River Canyon it is also on the list of UNESCO World […]
Tags: animal-species, architectural-attractions, baltic-sea, canyon, conical-shape, dunajec, dunajec-river, excellent-starting-point, flatboat, narrow-gap, national-park, natural-phenomenon, niedzica, pieniny, pieniny-national-park, rare-plants, region-slovakia, seven-turns, slovak-territory, slovak-village, slovakia, towering-cliffs, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-sites, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Nature, Slovakia
January 7, 2011
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Bardejov is one of Slovakia’s best-preserved medieval cities — a UNESCO World Heritage jewel in the north-eastern Šariš region whose perfectly intact central square (Radničné námestie), ringed by 46 colourful burgher houses and dominated by the magnificent Gothic Basilica of St. Egidius, is considered one of the finest medieval urban ensembles in Central Europe. Along […]
Tags: 14th-century, 15th-century, 18th-century, bardejov, bardejovske-kupele, city, craft-center, exhibitions, historic-city, historical-monuments, inhabitants, renaissance-style, saris, skanzen, slovak-village, slovakia, spa, town, town-hall, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list
Categories: Sights, Slovakia
December 27, 2010
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Dunkerque (Dunkirk) – northern city in France Updated: July 19, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Dunkerque (or Dunkirk in English) is a city in northern France, near the border with Belgium. Administratively it is situated in Nord-Pas-de-Calais and the Nord département. Today the city has approximately 70.000 inhabitants. City of Dunkirk is situated […]
Tags: bell-tower, bullet-holes, busy-street, city, city-of-dunkirk, dunkerque, dunkirk, fortifications, france, french-port, gothic-church, horrors-of-war, jean-bart, maritime-museum, northern-france, saint-eloi, second-world-war, town, turbulent-history, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, world-heritage-site, world-war-one
Categories: France, Sights
