A Weekend in the New Coolest City in Europe

Bye Berlin. Forget Budapest. This small city has art and music on every corner.

The colorful streets of the Kapana Art District (Photo by the author)

Europe’s newest place to watch is also its oldest continuously habited city: Plovdiv, a city of 340 000 inhabitants in the South of Bulgaria. People have lived on this site since the 7th millennium BC. It has seen civilisations come and go: the Greeks, the…