May 20, 2010
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Prague – City of a Hundred Spires and the sixth most visited city in all of Europe Updated: March 6, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More The city of Prague is the capital as well as the largest city in the Czech Republic. Many people also consider Prague to be the most beautiful city […]
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Categories: Czech Republic, Sights
May 19, 2010
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Cinque Terre – national park in Italy Updated: November 10, 2020 | By Claire | More Protected Landscape Area of Cinque Terre is made up of a wild and rocky coast. Its name got from the five villages, which are built on the edge of cliffs. They are Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and […]
Tags: apartment-blocks, cinque-terre, coastal-villages, corniglia, crooked-streets, hotels, italy, liguria, manarola, monterosso, old-houses, riomaggiore, sea-level, slope, tuscany, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, vernazza, world-charm
Categories: Italy, Nature, Virtual Travel
May 10, 2010
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High Tatras National Park – the most beautiful place in Slovakia Updated: February 21, 2020 | By Claire | More It was back in 1949 when the High Tatras National Park was first established in the northern part of Slovakia. There is a unique and important preservation area which is dedicated to both flora as […]
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Categories: Nature, Slovakia
May 7, 2010
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Spiš castle in Slovakia – one of the largest castles in Central Europe Updated: March 8, 2020 | By Claire | More Monumental, amazing, powerful. These are attributes which can characterize Spiš Castle, the largest castle ruins in the Slovak Republic and one of the largest castle complexes in Central Europe. The castle was added […]
Tags: 4-hectares, altitude, ancient-trade-route, attributes, castle, castle-ruins, castles, central-europe, fortress, history-view, map, medieval-town, rich-history, slovak-republic, slovakia, spis-castle, unesco, world-heritage-list
Categories: Sights, Slovakia
May 1, 2010
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Domica Cave is the largest cave in Slovakia and one of the crown jewels of the UNESCO-listed Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst World Heritage site — a vast underground system on the Slovak-Hungarian border featuring magnificent flowstone formations, pagoda-like stalagmites, and a navigable underground river that visitors can explore by boat. Discovered in […]
Tags: admission-price, aggtelek, air-temperature, belianska-cave, boat-ride, boat-trip, cave, caves, domica-cave, hungary, relative-humidity, slovak-karst, slovakia, southern-slovakia, state-boundary, temperature-ranges, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list
Categories: Nature, Slovakia
April 29, 2010
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Dobšinská Ice Cave – the largest ice cave in Slovakia Updated: April 4, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Dobšinská Ice Cave is the largest ice cave in the Slovak Republic and one of the most important and beautiful ice caves in the world. It is located in Stratenská Highlands, on the northern slope […]
Tags: air-circulation, altitude, annual-temperature, cave, cave-ceiling, cave-entrance, cave-floor, cave-system, caves, centuries, cold-air, cubic-meters, discovery, electric-lighting, glaciation, ice-cave, ice-caves, karst, limestone-hill, mechanical-action, mining-engineer, mining-town, national-park, nature, northern-slope, public-skating, slovak-paradise, slovak-republic, slovakia, slovensky-raj, square-meters, stalactite-formations, temperature-average, underground-spaces, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, warm-environment
Categories: Nature, Slovakia