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) […]
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 […]
Trulli di Alberobello – strange houses in Italy Updated: June 6, 2020 | By Claire | More In the south of Italy, in the tourist undiscovered area – Puglia, you can find thousands of wonderful houses. At first glance they resemble the seat of fairy elves or Tolkien’s hobbits, they are called Trulli. The majority […]
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The Srebarna Nature Reserve is one of Europe’s most important wetland bird sanctuaries — a UNESCO World Heritage freshwater lake on the Bulgarian Danube plain that provides critical breeding and migratory habitat for over 200 bird species, including the globally endangered Dalmatian pelican. Located near the Danube River in northeastern Bulgaria, Srebarna offers some of […]
The Dolomites are arguably the most beautiful mountain range in the world — a UNESCO World Heritage landscape of sheer limestone pinnacles, pastel-coloured rock faces that glow brilliant orange and pink at sunset, and some of the finest skiing, hiking, and via ferrata climbing in the Alps. Stretching across the northeastern Italian regions of Trentino-Alto […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Las Médulas in Spain – the most important gold mine in the Roman Empire Updated: May 30, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Las Médulas was in the Roman Empire the most important gold mine. It is located in Spain, just few kilometres from the town of Ponferrada, near the borders with Portugal. The […]
The Aqueduct of Segovia is one of the greatest surviving monuments of Roman engineering — a colossal double-tiered arcade of 167 granite arches soaring 28 metres above the Plaza del Azoguejo in the heart of the Spanish city of Segovia, constructed without a single drop of mortar nearly 2,000 years ago and still standing in […]
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 […]
