2006-05-02
From the Media - Part 47
posted by mh 19 years ago
Over the past couple of weeks the German daily "Die Zeit" has featured the five ex-YU capitals in its travel section: Skopje ("Wir sind der Balkan!"), Zagreb ("Friedlich und niedlich"), Sarajevo ("Kuenstler des Ueberlebens"), Ljubljana, and Belgrade ("Die Zukunft kann warten").
From the Media - Part 46
posted by mh 19 years ago
While by now it should be well-known that Istanbul will be Europe's Cultural Capital in 2010 (and the website istanbul2010.org hasn't been updated since the awarding of that title), a less distant cultural capital is Romania's Sibiu in 2007. Last month SEtimes.com had devoted an article to this city.
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