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Discovering the Hanseatic Gdansk

Gdansk is greeting you with its colourful facades of the old buildings and invite you to walk in its historic center frozen in the Golden Age of Hansa.

The retreat of (impressionism) artists in Nida

Located in the Lithuanian part of the Curonian Spit - a peninsula trapped in between the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon - Nida is the most northern point of the Impressionisms Route and served as a retreat for the artists of the region!

Jewish Šiauliai, the centre of the leather Industry

Chaim Frenkel chose Šiauliai to develop this leather tanning company in the 19th century. The company sponsored the synagogue, canteen and the library for the factory workers, the school for the Jewish community, the elderly care home, and the hospital.

The Art Nouveau face of Riga

And here it started- on one hot day in June me, Denise and travel agents met in Riga, one of the most northern Art Nouveau cities. Our journey of learning about the offer of the Cultural Routes in the Baltic Sea Region has begun!

Lyon, France

If you want to explore Nyons and its surroundings, why not do it in style? You won´t find anything more fitting than Karl´s red 2CV from 1985, a genuine icon of french culture.

The Greece Kalamata Trip

One of the most interesting places we visited on this trip was the Art Farm. It’s a really unique place owned by Sotiris Marinis.

Stay at a Serbian monastery along the TRANSROMANICA Cultural Route

A stop in a trip along the TRANSROMANICA Cultural Route of the Council of Europe, to visit Orthodox monasteries in Central Serbia built between the 12th and 14th centuries and home to the remarkable legacy of medieval art and architecture in Serbia.

Brindisi, Puglia, Italy

Korčula island, Croatia

Off the mainland’s Pelješac peninsula, and barely a 2-hour drive and 15-minute ferry ride from the overcrowded and touristy Dubrovnik, the Croatian island of Korčula welcomes visitors looking for gorgeous landscapes and better food in the Adriatic Sea.