May 14, 2010
by europeexplored
Orava castle – one of the most attractive tourist attractions in Slovakia Updated: March 4, 2020 | By Claire | More It was back in the 13th century when the Orava Castle was first constructed overlooking the village of Oravský Podzámok along the Orava River. It is a beautiful and picturesque castle which has attracted […]
Tags: 13th-century, 14th-century, admission, archaeology, attractive-tourist, castle-church, castle-view, castles-in-slovakia, centuries, disrepair, early-1800s, exhibits, fencing, hrad, limestone-cliff, locals, map, medieval-buildings, music-concerts, nighttime, nosferatu, orava-castle, orava-river, periods, picturesque-castle, planning-your-trip, reconstruction-effort, reconstructions, rocky-limestone, slovakia, street-performers, tartar-invasion, tourist-destinations, transylvania, upper-regions, world-war-ii
Categories: Sights, Slovakia
May 9, 2010
by europeexplored
The Seegrotte (Lake Grotto) in Hinterbrühl, Austria, is home to the largest underground lake in Europe — a surreal subterranean body of crystal-clear water, 60 metres below ground, formed when a gypsum mine flooded in 1912 and creating a spectacular underground world where visitors can glide across the lake’s surface by electric boat through vast, […]
Tags: 1930s, 1st-november, admission-adults, austria, boat-trip, cave, cave-explorers, caverns, combat-aircraft, europe, freak-of-nature, heinkel, jet-fighter, map, nature, plaster, seegrotte, subterranean-lake, tourist-attractions, underground-lake, vienna, world-war-ii
Categories: Austria, Nature
April 27, 2010
by europeexplored
The Czech Republic is the best beer country in the world — the birthplace of Pilsner, the nation with the highest per capita beer consumption on Earth (over 140 litres per person per year), and a land whose brewing tradition stretches back over a thousand years, producing some of the finest and most affordable beer […]
Tags: alphonse-mucha, antonin-dvorak, bedrich-smetana, central-europe, corn-sugar, council-of-the-european-union, country-borders, czech-republic, czech-republic-prague, democratic-regime, dense-forests, economic-sector, featured, franz-kafka, helsinki-commission, international-commitments, mandate, marathon-runner, milan-kundera, mountain-bike-tours, nato, northeast-germany, northwest, organization-for-security-and-cooperation, organization-for-security-and-cooperation-in-europe, osce, poland, presidency, rich-architecture, slovakia, southern-regions, steel-sector, sugar-beets, traditional-meals, wheat-barley, wild-boars, world-war-ii
Categories: All Countries, Czech Republic
