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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 Heritage Sites. The canyon separates the Małopolska Voivodship (Poland) and Prešov Region (Slovakia). It is a natural phenomenon […]
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the Wiltshire, about 3.2km west of Amesbury and 13km north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones. It is at the centre of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze […]
There are four World Heritage Sites that are among the leading sights of London, and of those the Tower of London provides arguably the most fascination for tourists. It is a historic castle on the bank of the Thames, founded in 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest, and one of the most popular tourist […]
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 mining started already in the 1st Century. The Romans used the hydraulic mining technique. After two centuries of extremely profitable mining the Romans departed […]
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 used for William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. It is known as Elsinor in Shakespeare’s tragedy. That’s why the most of tourists are from England. The […]
Nesebar – Pearl of the Black Sea – is the ancient town and a major seaside resort on the coast of the Black Sea in Bulgaria. You can get to Nesebar by bus or boat from the coastal resorts such as Pomorie, or by plane or train to Burgas and then by bus. Nesebar is […]
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 19 windmills (windmolen) at Kinderdijk are on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list since 1997. The windmills at Kinderdijk date from the 18th century […]
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