The next issue of hidden europe will be published on Thursday 12 November 2015. hidden europe 47 will include a feature on the villages of the Romanian Carpathian Mountains. Switzerland makes a showing too. And we’ll make a rare foray beyond the shores of Europe with a report from Kyrgyzstan. Closer to home, we see if there might still be a few useful traces of utopia in 20th-century ideas on the socialist city.

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