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Latvia: what was the ancient Curland

Latvia (Latvijas Republika) is a parliamentary republic, divided into four main regions: Livonia (Vidzeme), Letgallia (Latgale), Courland (Kurzeme) and Zemgallia (Zemgale). The country became independent in 1991 and joined the European Union in 2004. The most important cities are the ...

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The climate of southern Italy: when to go to southern Italy

Is Aruttas, Sardinia, Italy. Author and Copyright Marco Ramerini

Southern Italy is largely characterized by the typical Mediterranean climate made up of mild and rainy winters and hot and dry summers. Only along the Apennine mountains does the climate of southern Italy become continental. To become a mountain climate ...

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The climate of northern Italy: when to go to northern Italy

Dolomites, Italy. Author and Copyright Marco Ramerini

Northern Italy includes several climatic zones, the largest climate zone in northern Italy is the one that includes the Po Valley, the valley where flows the river Po, in this area the climate is mainly continental with cold winters and ...

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The climate of Italy: when to go to Italy

Cala Goloritzè, Sardinia, Italy. Author and Copyright Marco Ramerini

Italy is a peninsula surrounded by the seas, and thanks to the influence of the sea, most of the Italian territory enjoys a Mediterranean climate. The Alpine chain acts as a wall that blocks part of the cold influences from ...

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The attractions of Italy: what to see in Italy

St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy. Author and Copyright Marco Ramerini

Italy is a country full of historical attractions, with a rich heritage of works of art and monuments. Land kissed by millennia of civilization, it has seen the birth of civilizations such as Etruscan and Roman, but also the civilization ...

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Italy: art, history and natural beauty

Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy. Author and Copyright Marco Ramerini..

Italy (Repubblica Italiana) is located in southern Europe, in the middle of the Mediterranean sea. The nation includes the Po river valley, the Italian peninsula and the two largest Mediterranean islands, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy is bordered along the Alps ...

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The climate of Ireland: when to go to Ireland

Ireland is an island located in the Atlantic Ocean, its location and lack of large mountains makes its climate typically oceanic, climatic characteristics of the Irish climate is its extreme variability, its mild temperatures, frequent rainfall and persistent fog. The ...

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The attractions of Ireland: what to see in Ireland

The Ireland tourist attractions are linked to its history and its magnificent landscape. This is the land of green pastures, which presents itself to the traveler who arrives from the sea with one of the most beautiful and wildest coasts ...

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Ireland: cliffs, lush pastures and nature

Ireland or Eire (Republic of Ireland/Poblacht na hÉireann) is a parliamentary republic, which occupies most of the island of the same name. Only the north-eastern section the so-called Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom. The Republic of Ireland ...

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The climate of Iceland: when to go to Iceland

The Icelandic climate is oceanic cold, the position of the country near the Arctic Circle, it would be seen geographically placed in the polar climate, but the climate of Iceland, particularly along the southern coast is partly made ​​more livable ...

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Iceland tourist attractions: what to see in Iceland

The tourist attractions of Iceland are purely naturalistic and natural. This island has a spectacular landscape made of majestic glaciers and snow-capped peaks, hot jets of water and steaming sulphates. Active volcanoes, impetuous rivers and waterfalls, birds, whales. A PARADISE ...

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Iceland: volcanoes, geysers, waterfalls and glaciers

Iceland (Lýdveldid Ísland) is a parliamentary republic located in Northern Europe on an island near the Arctic Circle between 63°latitude N and 66°latitude N. It is 260 km away from Greenland and 1.000 km from Norway. The island was colonized ...

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The climate of Hungary: when to go to Hungary

Hungary is a nation in Central and Eastern Europe characterized by a mainly continental climate. The climate of Hungary has among its characteristics a marked variability during each month of the year and strong temperature variations both daily and seasonal. ...

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Tourist attractions of Hungary: what to see in Hungary

Hungary was an integral part of the great Habsburg empire until the end of the First World War. The so-called Austria-Hungary, of which the country was an important part. Due to its geographical position, Hungary has represented a crossroads of ...

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Hungary: a vast plain crossed by the Danube

Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság) occupies the vast plain crossed by the Danube, which stretches between the Alps and the Carpathians. The country has no access to the sea, but possesses in Lake Balaton a large lake, located in the western part ...

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The climate of Greece: when to go to Greece

Greece is located in the eastern Mediterranean, and thanks to its position it enjoys the classic Mediterranean climate, which presents mild and rainy winters and hot and very arid summers. In summer the temperatures are mitigated by the constant blowing ...

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The attractions of Greece: what to see in Greece

Greece is the cradle of classical civilization, so those who visit the country must always take into consideration its history and its archaeological beauties. Tourist attractions of Greece that are found mainly in the acropolis of Athens and in the ...

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Greece: ancient civilizations and hundreds of islands

Greece (Hellenike Demokratía) is a parliamentary democratic republic located in southern Europe, comprising the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula, the Ionian islands in the Ionian Sea, Euboea, the Cyclades, the Sporades in the Aegean Sea, Crete, the Dodecanese with ...

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The climate of Germany: when to go to Germany

Germany is a country mostly flat, due to the scarcity of mountains, the German climate is subject to the influence of the Atlantic Ocean, this means that the main climatic characteristics are temperatures with low seasonal differences and rainfall in ...

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The attractions of Germany: what to see in Germany

Germany is often seen in the collective imagination as an industrialized and modern land, whose ancient cities were destroyed by the events of the Second World War, and where little is left of history and the arts of the past. ...

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Germany: from Bavaria to the Baltic Sea

Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is a federal republic made up of 16 confederate states (Länder), 3 of which are metropolitan in character (Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen). Reunited on October 3, 1990, after the division into two states after the Second World War. ...

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The climate of France: when to go to France

France is a country that extends from 42°N of Corsica up to 51°N of the coast of the North Sea, and from sea level up to 4,810 meters high of the Mont Blanc, is also bathed by two seas, the ...

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The attractions of France: what to see in France

France is a vast state, full of attractions with very varied natural landscapes, all to be discovered. The nerve center, also from the tourist point of view, is its capital, Paris, full of museums, characteristic neighborhoods, nightlife, great opportunities for ...

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France: a country that has marked European history

France (République française/French Republic) is a semipresidential republic, where the President of the Republic is the Head of State and has also executive power, while the Parliament is divided into the National Assembly and the Senate, which exercise legislative power. ...

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The climate of Finland: when to go to Finland

Situated in the extreme north of Europe, Finland is a kind of cool temperate climate, relatively mild, compared to its geographical position. The Finnish climate is characterized by cold, dry winters and hot summers, temperatures undergo significant seasonal variations. As ...

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Finland tourist attractions: what to see in Finland

Finland is a tourist destination dreamed of by children to be the land of Santa Claus. But Finland has many tourist attractions and various reasons to make a visit pleasant and interesting. There are wild natural areas such as Lapland, ...

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Finland: vast forests and a multitude of lakes

Finland (Suomen tasavalta, Republiken Finland) is a Parliamentary Republic. It is a member of the European Union. Finland is located in Northern Europe in the eastern part of Scandinavia. Neighboring countries are Norway to the north, Sweden to the north-west ...

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The climate of the Faroe Islands: when to go to the Faroe

The Faroe Islands have a mainly oceanic climate, with cool summers and mild winters, the days are usually a cloudy sky, even the fogs are frequent and the winds are often very strong. The islands are generally cloudy, wet, windy, ...

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Tourist attractions of the Faroe Islands: what to see

The main tourist attractions of the Faroe Islands are related to nature and the natural beauty of the islands. The islands are of volcanic origin, their rocks are layers of volcanic basalt. The islands are wild and rocky, the coasts ...

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Faroe Islands: spectacular cliffs in the Atlantic Ocean

The Faroe Islands (Føroyar) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean between Great Britain, Iceland and Norway. The archipelago consists of 18 islands, which are located at a short distance to each other. The largest island is the island ...

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