Tamarindo Beach is a Pacific coastal destination in Guanacaste Province on Costa Rica's northwestern coast. The beach stretches along a broad bay bordered by tropical vegetation, estuaries, and low coastal hills. Tamarindo is part of the Las Baulas Marine National Park area, which protects important coastal and marine habitats nearby.

Formally called Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve, Ocean Cay is a private island only accessible to MSC Cruises guests. Activities include beachside lounging, snorkeling, paddle boarding, lighthouse climbing, dining, shopping and more.

Southwest of Hannover in western Germany, Bielefeld lies near the Teutoberg Forest, the site of the 9th century Battle of Teutoberg Forest.

Situated on the coast of Tuscany near the Tyrrhenian Sea, Livorno, Italy, is a popular stop on Mediterranean cruises and an important commercial and industrial port. It was founded on a former auxiliary Pisan port between the late 16th and early 17th centuries on the orders of the Grand Duke Cosimo I, who made it Tuscany's main outlet to the sea.

Kalmar Union, combination of the crowns of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, effected at Kalmar, Sweden, by Margaret I in 1397. Because all three crowns were elective, the union could not be maintained by inheritance. Margaret's successors controlled Sweden intermittently until Gustavus I of Sweden dissolved the union (1523). Norway became independent in 1814.