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 […]
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Categories: Latvia, Sights
September 18, 2010
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Poloniny National Park is Slovakia’s most remote and wild protected area — a UNESCO-listed wilderness of primeval beech forests, high mountain meadows (poloniny), and traditional wooden churches in the far northeast of the country, where the borders of Slovakia, Poland, and Ukraine meet. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site as part of the “Ancient and […]
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Categories: Nature, Slovakia
September 17, 2010
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Krkonoše National Park (Karkonosze in Polish) is the oldest national park in the Czech Republic and one of Central Europe’s most beloved mountain destinations — a dramatic granite and schist range on the Czech-Polish border whose highest peak, Sněžka (1,603m), crowns a landscape of glacial cirques, alpine meadows, and the unique subarctic tundra ecosystem that […]
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Categories: Czech Republic, Nature
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
August 25, 2010
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Slovak Karst National Park protects the largest karst landscape in Central Europe — a UNESCO World Heritage area of limestone plateaus, deep gorges, and over 1,100 documented caves on the Slovak-Hungarian border, including several of Europe’s most extraordinary accessible show caves. This 346 km² park is the Slovak half of the transboundary Aggtelek Karst protected […]
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Categories: Nature, Slovakia
August 22, 2010
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Genova – beautiful port with lots of secrets, Italy Updated: December 28, 2020 | By Claire | More Located along the Ligurian coastlines of the Mediterranean Sea, you will find the ancient city of Genoa (Genova). Initially founded in prehistoric times by the Ligure tribe, control over Genoa would change hands many times before finally […]
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Categories: Italy, Sights
August 15, 2010
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Verona – the city of neverending love and paradise of open-air opera, Italy Updated: December 19, 2020 | By Claire | More About 30 km from Lake Garda you can find the second largest city of Venice area. Verona is the capital of the province of Verona located in northeastern Italy. The world’s awareness gained […]
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Categories: Italy, Sights
August 10, 2010
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Stonehenge is the most famous prehistoric monument in the world — a haunting circle of colossal sarsen stones and bluestones rising from the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, whose purpose, construction methods, and precise astronomical alignments have fascinated and mystified humanity for over 5,000 years. A UNESCO World Heritage site and Britain’s most iconic ancient […]
Tags: ancient-monument, bronze-age, burial-mounds, earthworks, english-heritage, henge-monument, monument-stone, monuments, national-trust, neolithic, prehistoric-monument, salisbury, standing-stones, stone-monument, stonehenge, unesco, united-kingdom, wiltshire, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Sights, United Kingdom
July 17, 2010
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Old Harry Rocks – Chalk stacks in Dorset, United Kingdom Updated: January 14, 2020 | By Claire | More You will find the Old Harry Rocks along the area that has been dubbed, the Jurassic Coast. Situated just off from the coasts of Purbeck Isle, in an area of the island that has been known […]
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Categories: Nature, United Kingdom
May 23, 2010
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Serra de Tramuntana – mountains, lakes, forests and snow on the island of Majorca | Spain Updated: March 7, 2020 | By Claire | More On the island of Majorca, which is situated between Spain and the coast of Africa, one will find the mountain range known as the Serra de Tramuntana. It is the […]
Tags: archipelago, balearic-islands, centuries, climate, deforestation, drinking-water, endangered-species, majorca, millimeters, millimetres, mounds, nature, nature-reserve, picturesque-beauty, puig-major, sea-level, serra, sierra-de-tramuntana, spain, tramuntana-mountains, unesco, wintertime
Categories: Nature, Spain