January 16, 2012
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Charleroi with a belfry included in the World Heritage Sites List | Belgium Updated: January 16, 2020 | By Claire | More Belgian city of Charleroi is situated at the banks of the river Sambre in the province of Hainaut, the westernmost part of Wallonia, located about 50 kilometers south of the capital city of […]
Tags: archaeological-museum, banks-of-the-river, belfry, belgium, bell-tower, charleroi, charles-ii, city-of-brussels, curious-tourists, geographical-position, glass-museum, heavy-industry, museum-of-fine-arts, museum-of-photography, northern-france, river-sambre, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, wallonia, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Belgium, Sights
May 14, 2011
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Tower of London – Royal Palace, fortress, prison, place of execution, arsenal, Royal Mint, Royal Zoo and jewel house | United Kingdom Updated: June 10, 2020 | By Claire | More There are four World Heritage Sites that are among the leading sights of London, and of those the Tower of London provides arguably the […]
Tags: anne-boleyn, arsenal, brother-richard, controversial-circumstances, crown-jewels, edward-iv, edward-v, fortress, gunpowder-plot, guy-fawkes, london, lord-protector, norman-conquest, palace-of-westminster, place-of-execution, pomp-and-circumstance, princes-in-the-tower, prison, richard-duke-of-gloucester, royal-mint, royal-palace, royal-zoo-and-jewel-house, second-wife-of-henry-viii, sights-of-london, tower-of-london, united-kingdom, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Sights, United Kingdom, Virtual Travel
March 8, 2011
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Malbork Castle – the largest brick Gothic castle in the world | Poland Updated: September 2, 2020 | By Claire | More Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork or simply Malbork Castle is the largest Gothic building in the world and the largest brick building in the world. It is located in Poland in the town […]
Tags: gothic-castle, grand-duke, king-of-poland, malbork, malbork-castle, napoleonic-wars, nazis, red-army, teutonic-knights, teutonic-order, the-largest-brick-gothic-castle-in-the-world, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Poland, Sights
February 25, 2011
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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 […]
Tags: borders, centuries, forested-slopes, gold-mine, history, kg, kilometres, landscape, las-medulas, most-important-gold-mine, nature, orange, pliny-the-elder, ponferrada, portugal, pure-gold, roman-empire, romans, spain, unesco, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Nature, Sights, Spain
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
December 15, 2010
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The Škocjan Caves in Slovenia are one of the most extraordinary underground wonders on Earth — a UNESCO World Heritage site where the Reka River thunders through a massive subterranean canyon 146 metres deep. Forget tiny stalactite-filled passages; Škocjan delivers an underground spectacle on a truly colossal scale, with chambers so vast they could swallow […]
Tags: cave, cave-system, caves, karst, kilometers, largest-known-underground-canyon-in-the-world, largest-underground-canyon-in-the-world, map, natural-monuments, nature, skocjan, skocjan-caves, slovenia, underground-canyon, unesco, waterfalls, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Nature, Slovenia
November 6, 2010
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Kronborg Castle in Denmark – the place of William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Hamlet Updated: May 18, 2020 | By Claire | 2 Replies More If you take the ferry from Helsingør to Helsinborg, it’s hard to miss the fortified castle of Kronborg at the coast. It became famous mainly because its corridors and rooms were […]
Tags: castle, centuries, corridors, denmark, elsinor, england, hamlet, italy, kronborg, kronborg-castle, northern-europe, palace, renaissance-castle, renaissance-castles, scandinavia, tourists, tragedy, unesco, william-shakespeare, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Denmark, Sights
October 17, 2010
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Nesebar is one of Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited towns — a UNESCO World Heritage jewel perched on a tiny rocky peninsula on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, where 3,000 years of Thracian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Bulgarian history are layered into every cobblestone, church ruin, and timber-framed house. Often called the “Pearl of the Black Sea,” […]
Tags: admission, black-sea, bulgaria, center, churches, city, coastal-resorts, europe, neighborhood, nesebar, one-of-the-oldest-ancient-centers-in-europe, pomorie, rocky-peninsula, seaside-resort, tourist-destinations, town, train, unesco, wooden-houses, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Bulgaria, Sights
September 25, 2010
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The windmills of Kinderdijk – one of the best known Dutch tourist sites | Netherlands Updated: April 2, 2020 | By Claire | More Kinderdijk is a small village lying on the Lek and Noord rivers near Rotterdam and Dordrecht in the Netherlands. It’s a very popular destination for its large network of windmills. The […]
Tags: 18th-century, best-known-tourist-site, best-time, century-system, city, concentration, confluence, cultural-heritage, dike, dordrecht, dutch-tourist, emergencies, folktale, kinderdijk, lek, lek-river, lekkerland, mid-twentieth-century, netherlands, nineteenth-century, polder, pumps, rotterdam, saint-elizabeth, saturdays, south-holland, terrible-storm, tourist-destination, tourist-sites, town, two-areas, unesco, unesco-world, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, village, windmill, windmills, windmolen, wooden-cradle, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Netherlands, Sights
September 18, 2010
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Dresden – a charming city with a unique blend of art and culture in Germany Updated: October 27, 2020 | By Claire | More German charming city of Dresden is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech and Polish borders. Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence […]
Tags: blaues-wunder, city, dresden, dresden-frauenkirche, dresdner-frauenkirche, elbe-valley, endangered-world, famous-cathedrals, german-reunification, germany, hygiene-museum, katholische-hofkirche, pillnitz-castle, river-elbe, schloss-pillnitz, semper-opera, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-committee, world-heritage-convention, world-heritage-site, world-heritage-sites, zwinger-museum
Categories: Germany, Sights, Virtual Travel
