Kosovo: A New Country on the Balkans’ Tourist Map
Balkan Travellers
An unclear border regime, issues with green cards for automobiles and other insurance and the danger of unrest discouraged many travellers from going into the territory, causing them to avoid it.
Priština, with its atmosphere of a joyful construction site, surprisingly good cafés and restaurants and a population with an average age between 25 and 30, now has the chance to emerge as a centre of positive energy on the Balkans.
The change is expected to lead to gradual ease in the access to the Serbian cultural heritage on the territory – the numerous Christian monasteries and churches, both intact and in ruins, some of which date back to the fifteenth century.
Entrepreneurs in Kosovo have been claiming for some time that the tension in the now former province and its unclear status hinder the development of many possibilities for eco-tourism, as well as the tourism flow to the ski resort Brezovica. The latter, located in the Sharr Mountain, is often described by experts as one of the best on the Balkans, because of its natural features.
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Balkans
Balkan Culinary Wars III: Other People’s Meatballs
Ćevapčići from Leskovac, köfte from İzmir or Bulgarian kebapche? Greek keftedes too, please!
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Curiosity Chest
Serbia
The Student Cultural Centre in Belgrade, Serbia
Throughout the ups and downs in Serbia’s recent history, the Student Cultural Centre (SKC) has always been a safe haven for city artists, a place to go to remove themselves from the everyday and express themselves freely. Full Story
Useful Reads
Balkans
Through Another Europe (2009) | Edited by Andrew Hammond
When Henry Blount journeyed through Bosnia in the 1630s, two things struck him: the purity of the water and the great height of the Bosnians, which, he noted, “made me suppose them the offspring of those old Germans noted by Tacitus and Caesar for their huge size.”
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Music
Serbia
EXIT Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia: Overnight Exile in the Fortress
Located roughly in the middle between Bulgaria's Black Sea and Croatia’s Adriatic coasts, which are both shaken by high-energy rock parties each July, Novi Sad hosts one of the most significant summer festivals on the Balkans – EXIT. As fans from all parts of the region start to gather in the town for for this year’s event, scheduled to take place between July 10 and 13, Mila Popova recounts about the time she spent at the festival last summer.
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