Hidden Gems of Europe

What this quiz asks

• The Plitvice Lakes, a staircase of turquoise pools linked by waterfalls, are a national park in which country?
• The lakeside village of Hallstatt, wedged between a mountain and the water, is in which country?
• The Giant's Causeway, a shore of interlocking basalt columns, lies on which coast?
• Matera, in southern Italy, is famous for whole neighbourhoods of houses carved into the rock.
• The gaudy Pena Palace crowns the wooded hills of Sintra, a short train ride from which capital?
• The five cliffside villages of the Cinque Terre cling to the coast of which Italian region?
• The monasteries of Meteora, in Greece, are perched on top of what?
• The Bay of Kotor, a winding inlet often mistaken for a fjord, is in which country?
• Select ALL of these places that are in Croatia.
• The Lofoten Islands, where sharp peaks rise straight out of the sea above the Arctic Circle, belong to which country?
• The Faroe Islands are a self-governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
• Gozo, a quieter island of prehistoric temples and red-sand bays, belongs to which country?
• Rila Monastery, the largest and most celebrated monastery of its country, stands in which one?
• The Aletsch Glacier, the largest glacier in the Alps, lies in which country?
• Is the Stari Most, the famous arched bridge at Mostar, the original 16th-century structure?
• Saxon Switzerland, a park of sandstone towers and deep gorges, lies just upstream of which German city?
• The terraced vineyards of the Wachau valley line which river?
• Select ALL of these Atlantic archipelagos that are part of Portugal.
• Order these lesser-visited places from north to south.
• How many islands make up the Faroe Islands?