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Monserrate Palace, Sintra Dec 2019
A less visited but still beautiful palace in Sintra is the Monserrate Palace. This palace surrounded by beautiful gardens is a blend of Arabic, Gothic,
January 8, 2020
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A less visited but still beautiful palace in Sintra is the Monserrate Palace. This palace surrounded by beautiful gardens is a blend of Arabic, Gothic,
Sintra in Portugal became one of the first places to exemplify a new architectural style during the period of Romanticism in the 18th and 19th
Happy 2020 everyone! The first post of the year will be on one of my favorite places in Portugal 😃 Not far from Sintra Village
Bright and early today, I head out to Sintra on the Portuguese Riviera about half an hour west of Lisbon. Sintra is the epitome of
To the west of central Lisbon is Belem, home to the rich seafaring Portuguese heritage. This is where the great voyageurs of the 15th century
It must have been a good 20 years since I was last in Lisbon. To be honest, I didn’t think much of it back then
About a 40-min drive northeast is the wooden articled Hronsek Church made an UNESCO World Heritage Site together with seven other wooden churches of the
This morning I headed east to the medieval town of Banska Stiavnica, often called Silver Town, about 2 hours drive from Bratislava. Bankska Stiavnica is
From Bosnia in the Balkans, I continued my summer adventures to Slovakia in central Europe, formerly part of Czechoslovakia. During the 5th and 6th century,
Early in the morning, I headed southwest towards Mostar which is about a 2-hour drive from Sarajevo. Mostar is probably the best known city in
This morning I ventured to Jajce and Travnik in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovnia. Jajce is about a 3-hour drive from Sarajevo and has been the
From Slovenia, I travel to another Balkan state formerly part of Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, often known in short as just Bosnia. Like its neighbors,
About 90 minutes drive from Ljubljana is Piran, a Venetian seaside town in southwestern Slovenia, which was part of Italy until the end of WWII.
On our way to the Venetian seaside town of Piran, we stopped at a small church in Hrastovlje which has a very special fresco. Holy
Accompanied by Polish landscape photographer Piotr Skrzypiec who is based in Slovenia, I embarked on my short journey around Slovenia. We went from the beguiling
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