Bucharest’s iconic InterContinental hotel is changing its name, but will remain a landmark of the Romanian capital. In Budapest meanwhile, the...
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The best way to travel around the Balkans is to hire a car, but if you’re like me – skint but always open to meeting new people – there are only two...
The Estonian capital has been awarded the title of UNESCO City of Music, starting 2022, and is one of 49 new cities which have been designated...
Covid-19 hit tourism in the Western Balkans hard, but Gazmend Haxhia, boss of Landways International, one of the region’s leading tourism companies...
Once dubbed “metal coffins”, some of Georgia’s most perilous cable cars are getting a facelift. In some of Georgia’s more...
Often maligned, if not outright hated, socialist modernism and brutalist architecture is finding new appreciation with designers and the public alike...
A modernisation project costing one billion euros is transforming Budapest largest park, Városliget. Városliget, or City Park, is Budapest’s...
Underneath the streets of Tbilisi lies a network of Soviet-era tunnels, bomb shelters and sinister prisons about which most locals know very little. ...
Across the former Soviet Union – and beyond – vast mosaics remain some of the most enduring relics of the communist era. In virtually...
The picturesque Slovenian town of Piran has repeatedly fallen victim to climate change-related natural disasters. Local policymakers, scientists and...
Before Covid-19, Emerging Europe’s editor Craig Turp rarely walked anywhere. Now, he writes, its his favourite form of transportation, even in...
Tbilisi’s Armenian heritage is danger of being forgotten entirely, but there is some hope. Armenian intellectuals, wealthy merchants and...
A major new photo exhibition at the MO Modern Art Museum in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius looks at how festivities help people process change. The...
