cultural tourism

Time Out New York composed a list of the best and cheapest hostels. Ljubljana’s Hostel Celica is at the top of the list. It used to be a prison facility but it has been redesigned and transformed into a hostel. Lonely Planet, the largest travel guide and digital media publisher declared Celica to be ‘the most modern hostel in the world’.

To improve cooperation among six Danube countries

Regional organization the Danube Center for Competence was founded in Belgrade with the aim to promote regional tourist offers and economic development by the Danube river. Six countries participate in the project: Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Moldavia.

The Church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary

Above the Bled Lake is the only real island in Slovenia. There is still some Ice Age limestone remaining under the trees covering the moraine. The island probably had a special meaning in prehistoric times and our famous poet Prešeren made poems about it. The way to come to the island is by a sort of a roof-topped boat called pletna. This type of boat with a single rower is known only in Bled.

Nuccio Franco - Grbavica is a neighborhood in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated between the downtown and the periphery of the city. During the 1990s war Grbavica was the front line within the city. At that time it was held by the Serb forces that had torture camps there.

Visitors often get a strange feeling upon walking through the great wooden doors of a Bulgarian monastery leading them into the peace and calm of a courtyard full of trees, flowers and fountains with silvery water. The monasteries' architecture and anterior are similar to the houses dated from the National Revival period.

In Mostar

Roberto Bordin - It's been a while since I've planned to take part in an international working camp and visit the countries that used to be part of the former Yugoslavia which made them, unfortunately, interesting to the world public for a long time. I decided to look for a working camp in the region during summer and visit some of the cities there.

Travel and read

Beit is an Italian publishing house opened in Trieste in 2007. The company mostly publishes monographies of national histories of European countries with a focus on the culture of Eastern and Central Europe. Some of the foreign authors published by Beit are especially worth knowing: Thomas Glavinic, Rachel Trezise, Feri Lainšček, Joachim Hösler and Erica Fischer

Serbia is currently negotiating with Bulgaria and Romania about including those two countries in a tourist tour called the Roman Emperors Route, says the state secretary for tourism Goran Petković. "We are planning to form a joint committee with Bulgaria and present the Roman Emperors Route program on foreign markets this summer," says Petković.

After 18 years, a direct train Sarajevo – Belgrade – Sarajevo is in operation again. There were 20 passengers on the first ride. According to the timetable, the train will be starting every day at 8.15 am from Belgrade and return from Sarajevo at 11.35 am all year long.

Travel report

Tanya Mangalakova - Two lakes (the Great and the Small Prespa Lakes) create a natural boundary between Greece, Macedonia and Albania. It is a wild and unpolluted mountain area, known for migrations. Today, this region hopes to develop sustainable tourism. We are at the island of Ahil, on Small Prespa in Greece, not far from borders with Albania and Macedonia.