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Bad Muskau is a location of a wonderful palace and park ensemble. The town itself is close to the border with Poland, so when you walk through the park, you will visit two countries at once read more...
Arboretum in Uman was founded in 1796 by Stanislaw Pototsky and named after his wife Sophia. Today it is one ... read more...
Sintra is the main attraction in Portugal. The town itself is an ancient and picturesque, but the main interest are ... read more...
Munich is one of the largest cities in Germany. It is the second most visited city in Germany, after Berlin. And Bavaria is the most visited region in the country read more...
In the southern part of Essen, on the high banks of the river Ruhr, stands villa of a wealthiest family ... read more...
There is a beautiful landscape park in the Buky village of the Kyiv Region (there's another Buky in the Cherkasy Region). It ... read more...
In 2011 on the tourist map of Ukraine appeared a new object, Radomysl Castle. It is located in the town of ... read more...
In Vyshnivets is located a well-preserved 18th-century palace, the former residence of Vyshnevetsky princes and later Mnishek princes.
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Burgdorf is a town near Hanover. It has a small half-timbered center and a beautiful park, which we visited in November read more...
The spa and park complex in Wilhelmsbad was built between 1777 and 1785 by order of the crown prince and ruling count of Hanau, Wilhelm IX read more...
An excellent family park in Magdeburg, covering about 100 hectares, which we recommend. It was created for the 1999 garden festival and, so far, we haven't visited a better place in Germany to hold such festivals, though we've visited quite a few. This is most likely due to the fact that the scale of festivals has decreased recently read more...
In a small town of Bückeburg, in a beautiful park lies the majestic palace, the residence of Schaumburg-Lippe Princes . It was a small principality with an area of 340 square kilometers on the territory of Lower Saxony. The last of the princes abdicated in 1918 read more...
Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen in Hannover are made up of several different gardens: Large Garden, Berggarden, Georgengarden and Welfengarden. We visited the Large Garden which has always been one of the most distinguished baroque formal gardens of Europe. It was created by Princess Sophia of Hannover from 1696 to 1714 read more...
Frankly speaking, we didn't know about Weimar before our visit. But afterward it became clear that one day was not ... read more...
In Voronovytsia we visited the palace of the Grokholsky and Mozhaisky families (XVIII century). There is a park around the ... read more...
Gurzuf Park is one of the first parks that were founded after the return of Crimea to Russia in 1808. The ... read more...
One of the newest parks of Crimea, Paradise, is located in the "Aivazovskoye" resort. It was founded in 1964-1966 on ... read more...
Automotive city in Wolfsburg or Autostadt is the largest German, and maybe European, car entertainment center read more...
Small palace of the early 18th century. It was built by a representative of one of the branches of the noble family Lippe, and later belonged to various graphs of Lippe read more...
Ostrovsky Park is the main attraction of Korosten. Every year in September, the festival of deruny (hash browns) is held ... read more...
A little known and rather well hidden park, on the outskirts of Hanover. One of the first landscape gardens in Germany read more...
One of Germany's most famous bridges, which can often be seen on Instagram. In reality, it is not even a real bridge, but an art object located in the middle of a rhododendron park read more...
When visiting Shanghai, you need to understand the main thing - 24 million people live here and this is the largest city in the world in terms of population (wiki). It is also included in the TOP20 cities by the number of international tourists (~8 mln per year). But the main fact is read more...
Hünnefeld Castle is located several kilometers from the Ippenburg Castle. The area was first mentioned in 1146. The first castle was ... read more...
There are several interesting sights in the town of Leer in northern Germany. The most notable of them is the ... read more...
Cinque Terre (Five lands) is a national park and one of the most beautiful places in Italy. As you can guess from the name, the park consists of five towns: Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore read more...
Some time ago, in the early days of Soviet Union, Kharkiv used to be the capital of Ukraine. Today its ... read more...
Mülheim(Ruhr) is a city in the largest metropolitan area in Germany. The division into cities here is purely conditional, as ... read more...
The architectural ensemble of the three palaces in the city of Dornburg. All three buildings are located in a line at the top of a hill and are built in different styles read more...
In addition to Automotive City, there is a pretty good park with a castle in Wolfsburg read more...
Sometimes we visit places which are unknown to most tourists. National Park "Piryatinsky" is one of those places. It was ... read more...
Family safari park in northern Germany in Lower Saxony. You can visit it, both on the park bus, and on your car. The latter option is much more interesting read more...
The Luisium palace and gardens were created between 1774 and 1778 as a gift to Princess Louise von Brandenburg-Schwedt, wife ... read more...
The original castle complex was built around 1230 by the Margraves of Meißen. In 1280 the castle was ruled by a knight named Heidenreich von Lichtenwalde, after whom the castle got it's name read more...
Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi is a small town in the Cherkasy Region with gorgeous nature. It may be a perfect place for a picnic ... read more...
Quinta da Regaleira it is the only big attraction of Sintra, which is not included in the National Park of ... read more...
Hannover calls itself "Messestadt" (Exhibition City). That's why upon arrival of the train at the main station you hear the words "Welcome to the Exhibition City Hannover" read more...
Karlsruhe is a scientific and industrial center and the second largest river port in Germany. The city is young; according ... read more...
Samchyky is a beautiful, well-preserved estate and park of the Hoetsky family in the Samchyky village of the Khmelnytsky Region. The estate ... read more...
Erfurt is the capital of Thuringia, city with 1270 years of history. Due to the excellent location, at the crossroads ... read more...
Wiesbaden is the capital of Hesse, although it is not the biggest city in the region. All places of interest ... read more...
After Yanukovych run to Russia, his former estates were opened to public. Mezhyhiria in 2014 and Sukholuchchya in 2017 read more...
I dont know if there is such statistics, but the North Rhine-Westphalia region in Germany is the unequivocal leader in the remediation of lands that were previously used for mining or for factories. In almost every city here you can find parks or residential quarters created on the site of former factories, quarries or heaps read more...
Willy-Spahn Park is a good place to watch the spring blooms. The park was founded in 2004 on the site of an old marl quarry that had existed here since 1850. The central object is a restored and the only preserved in the region lime kiln, built in 1925 read more...
We stopped in the spa town of Bad Driburg for a walk in the Count's Park (Gräflicher Park). Usually such parks are called Spa Parks, but here it is named after the owners read more...
The original medieval castle on this site first mentioned in documents in 1170. The castle complex was built by Widukind von Rheda, who passed it on to the noble lords of Lippe. From the beginning of the 17th century, the complex was enlarged and became the princely residence of the Bentheim-Tecklenburg dynasty. Members of the princely family still own the castle and the park read more...
Sigulda is a great option for a day trip from Riga. In a small area there is a huge number ... read more...
Lima is the capital of Peru and the largest city. Residents of the regions come here to find a better ... read more...
If you come to Papallacta, do not be lazy and spend half a day in the National Park Cayambe ... read more...
Detmold is a small town, administrative center of the Lippe district. The castle on an island in the center of the town was first mentioned in 1366. Some walls have survived from that time read more...