In Liberty Square in the heart of Budapest is a huge map of the old Kingdom of Hungary, done in shrubbery, with a Danube of blue flowers winding through its length. It shows, besides the Hungary of ...

Names can sometimes be misleading. With their length of approximately 100 km, width of up to 15 km and a maximum altitude of 768 m, the Small Carpathians are definitely not among the biggest ...

Hikers should consider visiting the Carpathian Alps, which includes Romania’s Transylvanian Alps, instead of the Swiss Alps. It’s not only a cost-effective option, but this mountain range has ...

WWF along with a string of Ukrainian environmental NGOs has launched a petition against the construction of hundreds of small hydropower plants in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine which will ...

The Carpathians are the last wild place in a crowded continent. Grab a Copy. Walking Europe’s Last Wilderness: A Journey through the Carpathian Mountains. By Nick Thorpe. Yale University Press.

In 2012, five members of the the Forum for the Environmental Rescue of Transcarpathia won a court case against the illegal construction, but the Transcarpathian Regional Council appealed. The court ...

Carpathians calling. Although there are many places to go hiking in the area around Kyiv, like Glider Mountain or the quarries in Korostyshiv, a town 100 kilometers west of Kyiv, Struk says the ...

Svitlana Yanchuk, left, came with her daughters and their children from Bila Tserkva, Ukraine, to the Carpathian Mountains. It is safe and close to the border with Poland, where they hope to go ...

Śpiewnik Karpacki (The Carpathian Songbook), containing 360 traditional songs from all over the Carpathians, is edited by Władysław Motyka and published by Beskidzkie Educational Society. All songs ...

The old ways still linger in Romania’s Southern Carpathian mountains, where bears and wolves wander the forests and slow-paced villages stud the hills.