Visiting The Valley

Murren Introduction  Murren is an old mountain village in Bernese Oberland, in Switzerland, and it is at an elevation of about 5,400 feet above sea level, and you cannot reach it via a public road. There is a lot of tourism in the winter and ...

St Peter’s church, one of Vienna’s oldest, was, according to legend, founded in 792 by Charlemagne, as commemorated in a marble relief on the church’s fa?ade, The Placing of the Cross by Charlemagne, by Rudolf Weyr (1906). The site was occupi ...

The impressive ruins of Burg Aggstein, built into the rock, are poised high above the banks of the river. Today the castle lies in ruin, but once it measured some 100 m (330 ft) in length, with tall stairs leading to the Upper Castle. Built by the ...

Tusenfryd stands for Thousand Joys. It is also a common daisy. Tusenfryd is the largest amusement park in Norway. It is located about 20 miles south of Oslo. From the years 1950 through 1985, the area that the park is now in belonged to a zoo. The ...

Helgeland is the southernmost district of Northern Norway. In general, Helgeland covers the area of Nordland County that is situated outside of the Arctic Circle, to the south. The Svartisen Glacier and Saltfjellet Mountains border it on the north, ...