Balkans

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.

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

Poor position of cities in the Balkans

There isn’t a single city from east European post-communist countries among the top ten of greenest cities of Europe. The only one on the list of 30 cities is Belgrade at the 27 place.