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Szafuza - Schaffhausen

Picturesque Schaffhausen on the Rhine and the Munot fortress

Schaffhausen is a Swiss town on the Rhine near the German border. The picturesque streets of the old town are full of beautiful, colorful tenement houses. Whether in Gothic, Renaissance […]

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Niedzica Castle and Lake Czorsztyn in the shackles of winter -15° C

Standing on the dam in Niedzica, looking at Lake Czorsztyn and the surrounding hills with two castles, Niedzica Castle and Czorsztyn Castle, today it is difficult to imagine the local […]

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Meissen – porcelain manufactory at the Albrechtsburg castle

Meissen, sometimes called the “cradle of Saxony“, grew in the western Slavic regions. Today, associated mainly with porcelain, it delights with its colorful old town. The 12th century Market Square […]

La Valletta - capital of Malta

Valletta – 3 days weekend in the smallest capital in Europe

Some people associate Valletta with sunny Malta and the azure waters of the Mediterranean Sea, for others it may evoke memories of long stone streets and amazingly colorful balconies. However, […]

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Budapest on the Danube – Buda Castle, medieval Castle Hill

Around 890, the Magyar tribes invaded the Carpathian Basin. According to the tradition, Arpad, the leader of Magyars, erected a fortress on the ruins of the amphitheater in Aquincum. The […]

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Krosno glass, oil industry and the historic Market Square

Krosno, located in the south of Poland, in the Jasło-Krosno Basin, which is part of the Central Beskidian Piedmont, is undoubtedly a city with many faces. Certainly it is associated […]

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Szydłowiec Castle – Szydłowiecki family former residence

Szydłowiec is a small town located on the Korzeniówka River in the southern part of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship. It once belonged to the Sandomierz region, which was part of Lesser […]

Biecz in Lesser Poland

Biecz – royal city with 3 castles on the wine trade route

Biecz is currently a small town located in the southern part of Poland in the Carpathian Foothills, within Lesser Poland as a historical land. The modern name of the town […]

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Heraklion – Venetian fortress and Turkish siege of Candia

The found traces of Neolithic settlements in the area of Heraklion are dated to the 7th millennium BC. Due to the closeness of the palace of Knossos, which in Minoan times […]

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Barbara Berek

Barbara Berek

I am a passionate enthusiast of travel, archeology, photography and dancing :) On this page I try to combine the first three elements: P and show you that travelling becomes definitely more interesting when we discover visited places, and often inconspicuous ruins hide the most fascinating stories :)

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