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 ...

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

Brussels, Belgium: The Carpathians mountains stretch southward for 200,000km across seven central European countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine and Romania.They are ...

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.

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 ...