There are few things that fascinate and terrify at the same time as the vastness and sandy nothingness of a desert: since the dawn of time, travelers have been both attracted and frightened by the sublime sense of emptiness and immensity of the desert, as anyone can still experience today by going to any of the largest deserts in the world, from the Sahara to the Gobi to that of Mojave, Victoria or Atacama.
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Deserts in Europe: the 10 to visit
But it is not necessary to change continent to live the experience of this uninhabited and inanimate place because also in Europe you can visit what are in all respects by definition deserts: almost or completely uninhabited natural areas, with little or no rainfall and arid soil without vegetation. From a geomorphological point of view, the desert is not only a huge expanse of golden sand but can also include mountains, plateaus or plains whose surface can be sandy, with the characteristic dune appearance, as well as rocky or gravelly.
So here they are deserts to visit in Europefrom Spain to Ukraine including those found in Italy: here we talk about the 3 Italian deserts, for an original journey
Bardenas Reales della Navarra, Spain
Semi-desert natural area in the south-east of Spanish Navarre, made up of canyons, plateaus and cabezos of clay, chalk and sandstone, practically uninhabited, declared a Biosphere Reserve and protected as a Natural Park. They are the new mecca for more or less extreme sports as well as for those who have to shoot advertisements and films with a vaguely desert flavour.
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Oleshky desert, Ukraine
These vast sand dunes are located in Ukraine, in Tsiurupynsk Raion, in the Kherson Oblast, a few kilometers inland from the coast of the Black Sea. In the past they were kingdom of the Nogai Tatar Horde and then an area for Soviet military experiments, so much so that even today it is not unlikely to find some unexploded devices there.
Tabernas Desert, Spain
Deep Spain: this garrigue in the province of Almería in Andalusia, it is well known to Italians because Sergio Leone shot the scenes of “Once Upon a Time in the West”, “A Fistful of Dollars” and “For a Few Dollars More” and Gabriele Salvatores those of “Marrakech Express” there.
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Dunes of Piscinas, Italy
Italia, Sardinia: the highest living dunes in Europe, which cover an area of approximately 1.5 square kilometres, rise up to 100 metres, extend inland for almost 2 km and above all are continuously reshaped by the wind blowing from the sea. The only building that stands on the dunes of Piscinas is the mining warehouse of the Gennamari and Ingurtosu mines, declared a National Monument in 1985 by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities.
Sand pyramids of Melnik, Bulgaria
Melnik is a town in southern Bulgaria, south of Pirin mountain range and on the border with Greececharacterized by a long history that dates back to the time of the Thracians, by a present of agriculture and good wine, and by a landscape made up of arid pyramids of sand eroded by wind and weather which, despite the presence of shrubs and small plants, they make them seem to all intents and purposes like a desert.
The Causse du Larzac, France
The Causse of Larzac is a stony plateau south of the Massif Central, in France, with a mostly agricultural location, where much of the milk that is used to make Roquefort cheese and where, among the few fortified medieval villages dating back to the Templar era, there is nothing but sand, stones and bare rock formations.
Deserto di Błędów, Polonia
33 kilometers squares of sand in southern Poland, in the Silesian voivodeshipin the area between the towns of Dąbrowa Górnicza and Klucze: they are the largest sandy area far from water in all of Europe, the closest thing to a real desert you can see on the old continent.
Accona Desert, Italy
Italy, or rather Tuscany to be precise, within the Crete Senesi, in the municipality of Asciano: it is one of the few Italian deserts, with a clayey layer formed when the area was essentially the bottom of the Tyrrhenian Sea and with a long iconography so much so that its landscape was also portrayed in the frescoes of the Good Government of the town hall of Siena.
Sands of Deliblato, Serbia
Original name Deliblatska PeščaraI’ve been waiting since vast sandy territory in the Serbian province of Vojvodina, are known as the “European Sahara” or “the oldest desert in Europe” and declared a special nature reserve. Please note that they are also a hunting area for hunters from Western Europe.
Pobiti Kamani Petrified Forest, Bulgaria
Bulgaria, Varna region: the area is characterized by unusual natural rock columns that can reach up to 6 meters in height and cover an area of 70 square kilometers. Their origin? Some say they were formed by rock erosion and others as a result of coral activity.
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2024-05-16 07:33:35
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