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Bormes-les-Mimosas on the French Riviera

21 January 2024 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, French Riviera Reading Time: 4 minutes

Bormes-les-Mimosas (Occitan: Bòrmas dei Mimòsas) is a commune in the Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region, southeastern France. Bormes-les-Mimosas is a city in bloom and won the 2003 Gold Medal awarded by the Entente Florale Europe. The Fort de Brégançon, located in the commune, is the official retreat for the President of the French Republic. read more…

Bad Ischl in Salzkammergut

20 March 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General, European Capital of Culture Reading Time: 7 minutes

Kongress- und Theaterhaus © Peter Haas/cc-by-sa-3.0

Bad Ischl is a spa town in Austria. It lies in the southern part of Upper Austria, at the Traun River in the centre of the Salzkammergut region. The town consists of the cadastral community Ahorn, Bad Ischl, Haiden, Jainzen, Kaltenbach, Lauffen, Lindau, Pfandl, Perneck, Reiterndorf and Rettenbach. It is connected to the village of Strobl by the river Ischl, which drains from the Wolfgangsee, and to the Traunsee, into which the stream empties. It is home to the Kaiservilla, summer residence of Austro-Hungarian monarchs Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth. In 2024, Bad Ischl will be one of the European Capitals of Culture – the third city in Austria after Graz (2003) and Linz (2009). read more…

Tags: Austria, Bad Ischl, Entente Florale Europe, European Capitals of Culture, Fluss Traun, Gmunden Österreich, European Capital of Culture, Kurort, Oberösterreich, Salzkammergut region, spa town, Traun River, Upper Austria

Theme Week County Cork – Clonakilty

25 November 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General Reading Time: 8 minutes

© geograph.org.uk - Jeff Horne/cc-by-sa-2.0

Clonakilty (Irish: Cloich na Coillte, meaning ‘stone (castle) of the woods’), sometimes shortened to Clon, is a town in County Cork, Ireland. The town is located at the head of the tidal Clonakilty Bay. The rural hinterland is used mainly for dairy farming. The town’s population as of 2016 was 4,592. The town is a tourism hub in West Cork, and was recognised as the “Best Town in Europe” in 2017, and “Best Place of the Year” in 2017 by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. Clonakilty is in the Cork South-West (Dáil Éireann) constituency, which has three seats. Clonakilty is the second largest town in West Cork after Bandon. read more…