North Macedonia is a small parliamentary republic located in the southern Balkans. The country has common boundaries to the north with Serbia, to the east with Bulgaria, to the south with Greece and to the west with Albania. Macedonia has no access to the sea. The country became independent in 1991 with the collapse of […]
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Grand-Duché de Luxembourg/Großherzogtum Luxemburg/Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg) is a constitutional monarchy, which is part of the European Union. The state is divided into the three districts Diekirch, Grevenmacher and Luxembourg, which in turn are divided into 12 cantons. The country has the city of Luxembourg asd its capital. The Grand Duchy is bordered to […]
The climate of Lithuania is a type of climate mixed between the maritime climate and the cold climate, the maritime climate prevails only along a narrow strip of land located on the Baltic Sea, while the rest of the country is characterized by a continental climate, which causes short, rainy and mild summers and long, […]
The cities of Vilnius and Kaunas are the main tourist attractions of Lithuania. The capital Vilnius, whose historic center is part of the UNESCO heritage, is a city full of buildings of the most varied styles. There are palaces and churches in Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo style. Kaunas, the second largest city in the […]
Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika) is a parliamentary republic, which lies along the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. It borders to the north with Latvia, to the east and southeast with Belarus, to the south-west with Poland and Russia (the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad) and to the north-west you find the Baltic Sea. The country is […]
Liechtenstein (Fürstentum Liechtenstein) is a small principality, wshich is embedded in the Alps between Switzerland and Austria. The country is a constitutional monarchy, divided into 11 communes (Gemeinden) and has Vaduz as its capital. The principality is not part of the European Union and is the sixth smallest independent nation in the world in land […]
The climate of Latvia is a temperate mixed between the maritime and continental, coastal areas have a warmer climate, while the influence of the sea is considerably attenuated in the inner regions. In general, the climate of the country is quite rigid and precipitation are rather scarce. The very northern latitude of the country, and […]
The most important of the attractions of Latvia is undoubtedly the country’s capital, Riga. Well located on the Baltic Sea, in the center of the vast Gulf of Riga. The city still retains its historical center (which is a heritage UNESCO World Heritage Site) extensive traces of its history as an important commercial center of […]
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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 capital Riga, Daugavpils, Jelgava, Jurmala, Liepaja, Rezekne, Ventspils. Latvia is bordered to the north-east by […]
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 on the highest peaks with cold and snowy winters and mild summers. Along the coasts […]
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 hot summers but quite rainy. The snow as well as the fog in the Po […]
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The climate of Italy: when to go to Italy
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 northern Europe. But despite this the geographical conformation of Italy means that the climate of […]
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 of municipalities, humanism and the Renaissance. Italy is a treasure chest of art, an open-air […]
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Italy: art, history and natural beauty
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 in the north-west with France, in the north-west and in the north with Switzerland, in […]
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 Irish climate, as we have said, is characterized by extreme variability due to the rapid […]