Welcome to hidden europe 5, which features Tallinn and rural Estonia, the Polish city of Wroclaw, follows the Tito trail in Belgrade, maps central Europe and visits Father Frost in Russia.
hidden europe 5
This issue of hidden europe travel magazine features Tallinn and rural Estonia, the Polish city of Wroclaw, follows the Tito trail in Belgrade, maps central Europe and visits Father Frost in Russia.
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The Ossoliński Library in Wrocław, Poland (photo © hidden europe).
Summary
This issue of hidden europe travel magazine features Tallinn and rural Estonia, the Polish city of Wroclaw, follows the Tito trail in Belgrade, maps central Europe and visits Father Frost in Russia.
hidden europe evokes the spirit of two Estonias - the urban chic of Tallinn and remote rurality in Polvamaa county.
The Polish city of Wroclaw carries a flame kindled in a territory hundreds of miles away to the east.
In search of Santa Claus' Russian comrade, hidden europe visits Veliky Ustyug in northern Russia.
Guest contributor Laurence Mitchell follows the Tito trail in Belgrade - in a town that is still uncertain about how to handle its communist past and its legendary leader.
There used to be western Europe and eastern Europe - now there is central Europe too! hidden europe ponders a definition.
Guest contributor Adam J Shardlow looks beneath the streets of the Eternal City.
We track down two monuments that claim to mark the spot at the very centre of Europe.
Two poems - one Polish and one Maltese - that probe the boundaries of an enlarging European Union.
hidden europe introduces the latest UNESCO World Heritage Site: Struve's Geodetic Arc.
Extreme engineering on Europe's canals with long tunnels in England and France.
A tribute to the Belgian entrepreneur Georges Nagelmackers, founder of the Wagons-Lits company.
A small airport in the Slovakian High Tatras reopens for business.
Street iconography that is more than commercial branding.
Ferry operators Smyril Line and Fjord Line merge - and one of the most historic North Sea crossings disappears.
Arriving at Lviv airport recently, the hidden europe team was pleasantly surprised to find that trolleybuses are still a regular sight on the streets of the Ukrainian city. This prompted us to track down Europe's longest trolleybus route.
The towns of the so-called Spis confederation in Slovakia - a vivid reminder of a Saxon past.
A monument that commemorates a meeting that never took place.
A look ahead at hidden europe 6.