In issue 63 of the magazine, published on the Ides of March, we shall report from a backwater of modern-day Bulgaria that was once home to powerful Thracian kings. Read too in that next issue about the Italian city of Ferrara and about the privations of life on a goat farm in north-west Spain. We’ll explore the varied landscapes of an unusual valley in eastern Germany and discover the link between Budapest and a small town in the Thames Valley.

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