There are few places in Europe where the idea of a border is both deeply rooted and completely absent from the landscape. So it was unsurprising that in 2025 Nova Gorica and Gorizia were together ...

Once defined by conflict and division, the border cities have reinvented themselves as Europe’s joint Capital of Culture, using art, collaboration and a year of shared events to reshape their future.

Gorizia, Italy and Nova Gorica, Slovenia, were once separated by the Iron Curtain. As 2025 European Capitals of Culture, they stand for European integration. Trump issues damning insult to Europe’s ...

For the first time in history, two cities from two different states are designated as a European Capital of Culture-Nova Gorica and Gorica are now sharing the title for 2025. The two cities, the event ...

Just like these days in Novi Sad, back in 1999, revolted citizens in Belgrade came to the windows of representatives of the regime, the "paid destroyers of our lives", to loudly express their ...

One of the best things about the European Capital of Culture designation, which is awarded every year by the EU, is that it often shines a light on lesser-known cities and regions on the Continent.

The Croatian Air Force's aerobatic display team, Wings of Storm, performs during the AIRVG 2025 air show in Velika Gorica, Croatia on May 11, 2025. (Davor Puklavec/PIXSELL via Xinhua) The Croatian Air ...

April the 27th, 2025 – Velika Gorica near Zagreb rarely gets splashed all over glossy billboards and magazine pages like Dalmatia does, but it does have a few trump cards to boast about, including ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. In the tiny smuggling museum at the Italian border crossing at Pristava in Slovenia, there’s a large ...

Along with Gorizia, Italy, the western Slovenian city has been designated a European Capital of Culture for 2025. But its appeal goes beyond the city limits—and will last far beyond this year. There’s ...

The fall of the Iron Curtain and Slovenia’s subsequent independence paved the way for renewed cooperation between the two cities. The Schengen Agreement’s implementation in 2007 further dissolved ...