Ever since its first discovery in 1908 by the Serbian archaeologist Miloje Vasić, the so-called Vinča culture — a Neolithic community that spanned...
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How old is Tirana? One hundred, four hundred, or thousands of years old? This year the city celebrated a century as the capital of Albania, but...
The completion of the MO Modern Art Museum in the Lithuania capital Vilnius in the autumn of 2018 was one of the most eagerly-awaited cultural...
If you’re lucky enough to be in the Latvian capital Riga this week then culinary delights await, courtesy of the city’s summer restaurant week...
To Șoarș, a small village just over the hills from the Transylvanian city of Făgăraș, a village in which my mother-in-law worked (at the...
Statues and monuments have never been more topical. A wave of iconoclasm has swept across much of the western world, forcing several countries to...
Travel throughout emerging Europe is once again possible, albeit with some restrictions (you can check those at this enormously useful European Union...
The Lithuanian capital Vilnius, which has been making something of a name for itself over the past couple of months, coming up with a number of great...
Estonia is open for business and ready to welcome visitors, and the Tallinn Bienniale, which kicks off on July 2, looks set to provide art lovers...
Whenever I hear Balkan food described as drab I feel a twitch of sadness. Balkan cuisine is easily comparable to the highly evolved cuisines of Italy...
With no shortage of walls to paint on and a welcoming local urban art community, Bucharest has recently been the recipient of several foreign urban...
In 1987 Rupert Wolfe-Murray decided to travel overland from Scotland to Tibet. More than 30 years on, he has now written a book about his experience...
Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi is set to be one of the first destinations in the world to reopen to international tourists. Following the...
