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Discover Aglianico Wine: Southern Italy’s Ancient Treasure
Aglianico: A Reportage from the Vineyard What is Aglianico? Aglianico represents one of Southern Italy’s most prestigious wine treasures, crafted from ancient black grapes that originated in Greece over 2,000 years ago. Moreover, this remarkable Aglianico grape variety has found its perfect home in the sun-drenched vineyards of Campania, where volcanic soils create ideal growing…
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Mocănița: Where Steam Meets Soul in Maramureș
A photographic journey through time along Romania’s last working narrow-gauge railway A Photo Journey through Maramureș, Northern Romania My trip on board Mocănița is a consequence of my fascination with discovering the unusual aspects of every nation. In my endless quest to uncover the extraordinary hidden within the ordinary corners of our world, I found…
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Meteora: The hanging stars
The word Meteora in Greek means “suspended in the air”. When you wander among these ancient sandstone pillars, you feel as though you might float upward, drawn into the realm where monasteries perch impossibly on stone peaks, defying both gravity and time. The Sacred Heritage Saints, anchorites, and mystics have found refuge in this vertical sanctuary…
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Iceland, the land of fire and ice
In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there’s this strange thing: you’re never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape.But it makes it very beautiful as well. Hannah kent Iceland Photography: Where Fire…
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Intimate Plitvice: A Soul Journey
Sometimes a place calls to you not through guidebooks or recommendations, but through an inexplicable pull that transcends rational thought. Plitvice is that place for me—a living canvas where water writes poetry in perpetual motion. Plitvice: The Call of Distant Waters Twice I’ve answered Plitvice’s call, separated by decades of life, growth, and evolving vision.…
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Zagorohoria: rocky peaks and stone bridges
Every rock and stream is a myth Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani The horizon is jagged with rocky peaks. The Greek summer fades out slowly. But the icy mountain air, the fireplaces already lit in the houses, and the sudden rains make it clear that the season is changing. A fresh wind pushes the last warmth…
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Discover Procida, the Italian capital of culture for 2022
Springtime is the perfect moment to discover Procida, the Italian capital of culture for 2022. The tiny yet beautiful island of Procida is the smallest and least known of the islands of the Gulf of Naples. You may have already heard of Capri and Ischia. Does perhaps Procida sound new to you? Next year we…
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Perast and the bay of Kotor
The Bay of Kotor is an encyclopedia of the contradictions of post-Yugoslavia. Glimpses of dazzling beauty, carcasses of the Yugoslav navy, ancient Habsburg forts, and wrecks of fishing boats. Venetian villages with unchanged grace but polluted and sometimes smelly waters. The charm and the white stones of Kotor are dominated by the huge cruise ships…
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Out of the crowd in Mykonos for beautiful landscape photos
Out of the crowd in Mykonos for beautiful landscape photos! If you’d like to escape from the glamour and the crowd of Mykonos town and its most famous beaches, head to the northern point of the island, to the Armenistis lighthouse. Armenistis Lighthouse It’s a 6 km walk from Mykonos town. Just less than an…
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Following the pace of Nature in Jambiani, Zanzibar
Jambiani, a coastal village Jambiani: huts built with wood and fossil coral, nested in a corner of the southeastern tip of Zanzibar.From here on, there are only sand tracks; mass tourism has not arrived yet.The rhythms of life in this village are set by Nature and tides. The people of Jambiani live by the sea.…
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The question is…
The man was crafting and selling copperware in a small shop in one of the overcrowded narrow streets close to the old Bridge of Mostar. He dressed completely in white. Long white hair and beard and a beautiful cap. His age was indefinable: the beard made me think of an elderly, but his eyes were…
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Sarajevo: Where it all began (or went to an end)
There is a crossroad of Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that was the pivotal point in the history of the modern world as we know it. From this place on 28 June, 1914 Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia You can read this…
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5 of the most beautiful wooden churches in Maramures, Romania
A lot of green around, many hills and a church made completely of wood. You could think you’re in Norway, but no! You’re much more south: Maramures is a poor, agricultural region of Northern Romania, stretched between the mountains and the Ukrainian border. Maramures Maramures is an interesting area: it still holds ancient rural habits and…
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5 Beautiful Things To See In Eger, Hungary
Eger is a beautiful historical town in northern Hungary. It’s relatively less known than other Hungarian tourist attractions. And that’s good because it’s not exploited by too much crowd. But at the same time, it’s a pity, because such beauty should be enhanced Less than two hours (both by car or train) from Budapest, it…
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Zadar psychedelic sunsets
When the sun goes down in Zadar, the earth and sky melt together at the horizon. They share the same colours in a fantastic psychedelic show. Alfred Hitchcock, who was a connoisseur, used to say that from Zadar’s waterfront one can enjoy the most beautiful sunset in the world. But since the times of Mr…
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Before The War: Life In A West Ukrainian Village
Solotvyno is just a West Ukrainian village, on the banks of the river Tisza, right at the border with Romania. Perfect location to investigate the plain Western Ukrainian lifestyle, I thought, and that’s why I visited it. A bridge in the outskirts of the village links the two banks of the Tisza River, thus connecting…
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Photographer of the Day: Giuseppe Maria Galasso
Photographer of the Day! It was a nice start of the week! It was a boring Monday morning, I was barely awake, still thinking of how to get ready for the week, when my RSS feeder showed me this: together with a beautiful review of my image written by Ms. Susan Kanfer: Giuseppe Maria Galasso…
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Jugonostalgija
The country that once was called “Yugoslavia” disappeared from the maps at the end of last century and after a cruel war. Outside the former Yugoslavian area, nothing of it remains on maps, just a trace on the history texts. But the “Made in Yugoslavia” Zastavas still run the roads of the new countries that…
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The special history and amazing beauty of Palmanova
Located in Northeastern Italy, Palmanova, the star-shaped town, is a unique destination. It is a great example of a Renaissance-era planned town meant to be used as a living area, fortress and stronghold. The star-shaped town Palmanova has the shape of a star. Right in its middle, there is a huge square, an enormous empty…
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Discover the old times charm of Marzamemi
Marzamemi, a fishermen’s village Marzamemi is a beautiful ancient tuna fishing village in Sicily, not far from Siracusa. It was built during the Arab domination of Sicily. The name itself “Marzamemi” has an Arab root. “Marsa” in Arab means “harbour”. Also, the tuna fishery dates back to Arab domination. On the other side, the fishermen’s…
