January 25, 2012
by europeexplored
Family activity holidays in Italy – Exploring the Bay of Naples Updated: January 25, 2020 | By Claire | More The whole of Italy has a lot to offer that it is quite impossible to take part in all of the family activity holidays in Italy available in just one trip. One way to tackle […]
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Categories: Italy, 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 […]
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Categories: Portugal, Sights
October 10, 2010
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Mount Vesuvius (Monte Vesuvio) is the most famous volcano in the world — the brooding 1,281-metre giant looming over the Bay of Naples whose catastrophic eruption in AD 79 buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in metres of ash and pumice, preserving them in extraordinary detail for nearly two millennia and creating one […]
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Categories: Italy, Nature