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Summer's here, so travel green for Green Europe on the ground

Going on holiday in this economic climate is impossible for many. But as good old Bertie Einstein said, ‘In a crisis, imagination is more important than knowledge’. cafebabel.com wraps up its second citizen media project of the year, ‘Green Europe on the ground’. The pick of articles from the year encourage you to get on your imaginary bikes through an Italian capital during the day. For the night, you’ll don your telescopes to contemplate the real deal beyond the lights of a Slovenian capital before dancing it all off in a ‘green disco’ in a German capital. We’ll take a serious stop in a Hungarian country to see how the effects of a natural disaster can mobilise people, before taking an organic break in a southern Spanish regional capital. We’ll also have that chat with young Parisians on how they feel about the new political green climate, because environment is essentially inseparable from European politics. Read the ‘best of’ our journalists’ ‘alternative energy’ in a collection of green articles this summer (Image: (cc) annais/ Flickr)

• Read the special edition Summer's here, so travel green for Green Europe on the ground
• Europe's unique light pollution law: dark skies over Slovenia
• Green dancefloors Berlin: spread the eco-dance germ to Europe
• Sludge-hit Hungary: Europe’s biggest ecological catastrophe since Chernobyl
• Organic Seville: too many exports, not enough young workers or local mouths
• Rome was not built in a day...nor for bikes
• Parisian 'eco-geeks': the youngest players in the French presidential elections

Guide to Seville: a British love letter

Overlooked by many tourists - the numbers of visitors to the city do not by any means reflect its incredible charm, beauty and liveliness - Seville is writhing, pulsating 'authentic Spain' at its most vivacious

by Laura Simpson @ // 10/02/11

seville, lifestyle, travel, expatriates, guide, society, cities

Tomás de Perrate: 'I don’t know a single gypsy family that feels discriminated against in Andalucia'

The 43-year-old started singing in 1999, after ten years as a hairdresser. Inspired by America's Tom Waits, he says that Balkan gypsy music does not belong to the flamenco family

by Fernando Navarro Sordo @ // 24/10/08

seville, roma, brunch, tomás de perrate, utrera, cantantes, music

Photos: Santa Cruz life-size in Seville

The district of Santa Cruz in the old centre is like a miniature Spain colourfully displayed by the numerous rare buildings of such imposing beauty. A genuine museum of Hispanic folklore

by bénédicte salzes @ // 10/06/08

seville, santa cruz, photogallery, photography, photo, flamenco, tourism

Verdi on the web

Can more young people enjoy opera, asks a congress in Paris

by Martin Schneider @ // 02/03/07

seville, paris, europe, web 2.0, france, music, culture

Seville: Where truth and fiction merge

How the locals in Seville have been creating an idealised image of their town and of what supposedly makes them different – sources of pride...and business.

by miguel agreste // 19/05/03

seville, identity, cities, andalucía, tourism, spain