Frank Partridge reports on a plan to save the griffon vulture in Croatia

In Barcelona, Owain Thomas goes in search of superhero Capitán Trueno

Entry to the EU is bringing change to Malta and benefiting its unique heritage. Barbie Nadeau reports.

Across eastern Europe aristocratic families are returning to their ancestral estates, as Andrew Eames discovers

William Cook finds regeneration and rehabilitation on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn

Embracing both traditional and modern music, Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, hits the high notes, says James Williams

The Armenian capital, Yerevan, is rebuilding its identity, thanks to friends in high places. Carole Corm reports.

Germany’s Ruhr region takes up the mantle of European Capital of Culture in 2010. Andrew Eames reports on the transformation of one of Europe’s most heavily industrialised areas

Poland’s Bialowieza National Park contains the last surviving segment of Europe’s primeval forest and an ecosystem to match. Dan Hayes reports

Alfred Kueppers journeys to Yasnaya Polyana – writer Leo Tolstoy’s country estate near Moscow – and discovers how it was saved from meeting a sorry end