Metropolitans | Minsk - a tour of the Belarusian capital

Choosing the right speed for exploring Moscow is vital because according to architects, the city is best seen on the move. The underground is the

Moscow is full of surprises and even one year is not enough to get to know all its treasures. And there are many perspectives from which to see the

The story of the impact of Italian architecture in Russia has been well documented. For Russian and Italian speakers, I strongly recommend the book

Several centuries ago, the Renaissance changed the face of Moscow forever. Having built up a prestigious and powerful state, Prince Ivan

The city of Rotterdam in The Netherlands is Europe’s largest port, strategically located at the mouth of the Rhine and the Maas rivers. Nicknamed

It’s the monument in front of which everyone wants to have their photo taken: Skopje’s largest statue features Alexander the Great, who is considered

Poznan rises early. The city of just over half a million has with Warsaw the lowest unemployment rate in Poland and getting to work on time and in

The city of Łódź in the middle of Poland is something of a paradox. Unlike many other major cities, it did not spring up around a major

Last May in Lorca, in the Spanish region of Murcia, a double earthquake left nine people dead and 300 injured, out of a population of 90,000. It also

Dunkirk, an industrial port in northern France, is reshaping its urban centre to cement the city firmly in the 21st century. They are trying to

Malmö, Scandinavia’s bridge to Europe, is Sweden’s third largest city with 300,000 inhabitants. About a third of them are immigrants. Malmö is a

Thirteen years since the rebirth of Astana, in Kazakhstan, the administrative capital is also becoming a regional business and cultural fulcrum

Vienna is a city where the past and the future live side by side. The pulsating metropolis, once centre of the Habsburg empire, has a rich cultural