Inside Europe
The Hermitage Amsterdam opens in June, providing an exciting western outpost for the great Russian art collection. Dan Hayes reports
Piers Gladstone travels to Russia’s far east, to the frontier city of Vladivostok and onwards, across the vast taiga, to the land of the ‘fish skin people’.
The river Danube is the EU’s largest, running for an impressive 2,840 kilometres and passing through eight different countries. Andrew Eames follows its course.
When the Soviets took over at the end of World War II, they did not know quite what to make of the playful architecture, the mocking gargoyles and the ubiquitous religious symbolism, so different from their monumental, atheistic ideal.
Hard up against the site of the Wall, the Tiergarten is the green heart of West Berlin.
