Dubrovnik - jewel of the Adriatic coast in Croatia

by Cristina Nuta - Dubrovnik is a port on the Adriatic coast in Croatia. It is a very small city with only 50,000 inhabitants, but it used to be a major trading port and is now one of the region's most attractive tourist locations. The origin of Dubrovnik in unclear, but it is probably linked to the destruction of the Roman city of Epidaurum in the seventh century. Epidaurum was an important ...

Date added: 21 May '07

Timisoara the Small Wien on the Bega

by Herminne Tonita - Situated in the Western part of Romania, at the border between the Occident and the Orient, a multicultural and multiethnic space, Timisoara is the largest town in Banat and the forth town in Romania taking into account the number of its inhabitants. The first mentioning of the town dates to the XIII th century, more exactly in 1212 as Castrum Temisiensis, or Castrum Regiu ...

Date added: 27 February '07