Alte Donau
The Old Danube and the New Danube are Vienna’s most popular bathtubs. While the New Danube is still connected to the actual Danube river, the Old Danube is not. The inland water spreads over 1,6 square...
View ArticleFamily home in Ollersbach
It has been a sticky hot day in Vienna when we escape the city by train to a village in Lower Austria. An hour later we find ourselves wandering barefoot through thick grass under old shadowy trees,...
View ArticleWotruba Church
Located at the very edge of Vienna, where single-family houses give way to the Vienna Woods, Wotruba Church stands out as an abstract, oversized sculpture. Given that it was designed by the sculptor...
View ArticleTrg Oslobodenja
For foreigners this public sqare in Sarajevo is hard to pronounce. The full name is Trg Oslobodenja Alija Izetbegovic (named after the first President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina), in...
View ArticleBašcaršija
Bašcaršija is the historical and cultural center of the city and thus the heart of Sarajevo. When it was built in the 15th century it was double the size of today. However, due to a large fire in the...
View ArticleMostar
When the sun sets and the day tourists leave, Mostar reveals its true beauty. A walk along the green banks of turqoise-blueish Neretva river, past the stone buildings of the Old Town and across the...
View ArticleSkenderija
The cultural and sports center Skenderija was opened by the President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito in 1969 with a premiere of the historical spectacle film “Battle on the Neretva”. The complex was...
View ArticleRuined house
25 years after the outbreak of war in Sarajevo traces of this human tragedy can be found all over the city. Even in the very center there are houses with bullet holes in it. The building complex where...
View ArticleTrebevic
Trebevic is Sarajevo’s backyard mountain. On a lovely Sunday afternoon local families love to walk up – at least partially – the 1629-meter hill through the mahalas, Sarajevo’s old residential areas. A...
View ArticleMariainsel
“Maria and Franz are the most common names in this area,” artist Alfredo Barsuglia explains. That is why he called his public art project for the 6th Wasser Biennale in Fürstenfeld “Mariainsel”. And...
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