Travel to Italy. NATIONAL PARK "GRAN PARADISO"

   "Gran Paradiso" is the oldest national Park of Italy. 
   Back in the mid XIX century Victor Emmanuel II, the future monarch of Italy, noted that the number of mountain goats in his hunting area has drastically reduced. He declared forest reserves and forbade them to hunt everyone but himself. In the early twentieth century, his grandson, also Victor Emmanuel, conveyed these lands to state ownership, but with the condition that their territory is national Park. 

Travel to Italy. LAKE AVERNUS

   Avernus — one of the names of the underworld in the European tradition. Who came up with the idea to call a beautiful lake in the Italian province of Campagne? In fact, on the contrary, the Kingdom the dead was named after the lake. Translation of "averno" means "without birds", and according to legend, in ancient times, any of the birds flying over the lake, dropped dead. 

Travel to Italy. THE BEACH OF "SCALA DEI TURCHI"

   On the Italian island of Sicily located amazingly beautiful beaches, the most unusual among them "Scala dei Turchi". This is a huge white cliff of margalita — durable limestone material, which is water and wind over the years has formed a rounded stage. 

Travel to Italy. RIVER TIMAVO

    To see the river-wanderer Timavo from source to mouth, have to visit three countries. Some of the streams that form it, are in Croatia. But the "official" beginning of the river in Slovenia, on the slopes of the Snow mountains. 

Travel to Italy. EAR OF DIONYSIUS

   It's hard to think of a more fitting name for this cave.

  First, the entrance is indeed reminiscent of the shape of the human ear. And secondly, in the grotto has excellent acoustics, so that the word spoken in a whisper in one part of the cave, then loud echo is heard in the other. 

Travel to Italy. THE SOCA RIVER/ ISONZO

   "The emerald beauty" — so affectionately call the Slovenes miracle of their land — the river soca. The color of the water in the river is really unusual — a thick and milky emerald in its entirety, and is 140 km. 

Travel to Italy. THE BLUE GROTTO ON CAPRI ISLAND

   The island of Capri — a favorite vacation spot of celebrities. It is one of the most striking natural wonders of Italy — the Blue grotto, which locals usually call the sky blue. One only has to get inside, from the incredible blue getting dizzy. 

Travel to Italy. THE BEACHES OF VILLASIMIUS

   Villasimius is a must-see beach lovers. This marvelous area is located in the South—East of the Italian island of Sardinia. Almost to the sea fit low, forested mountains, at the foot of which stretches a lush beaches.

Travel to Italy. ALCANTARA GORGE

   "Miraculous Baroque" — the so-called gorge of Alcantara tourists visited here.

   Indeed, the intricate patterns on basalt overhanging the river rocks look very impressive. The "author" of the arts — crater Mojo, which two thousand years ago erupted a powerful stream of lava. She has formed a gorge.

Travel to Italy. RITTEN EARTH PILLARS

   In the Italian province of South Tyrol is surrounded by tall trees is another local landmark — Ritten earth pillars. This unusual rock formation is an earthen turrets, often topped with a huge boulders. There are about 150, and the height ranges up to several tens of meters. How they got here?