UNITED KINGDOM SUMMER PEARLS: London's architectural gems along the banks of the Thames
MUSIC: Europe's best pop and rock gatherings
BAGPIPES: The plaintive sounds of Scotland
SUBMARIUM: Journey to the bottom of the sea FESTIVALS: Fun in the sun in West Belfast
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FRANCE and SWITZERLAND VULCANIA: Blow your top at France's volcano park
ART: Berthe Morisot, the unknown Impressionist
FESTIVALS: Aix-en-Provence has it all
ART: The Barbizon School painters come to life
ART: Take a stroll through medieval gardens of delight
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SPAIN, PORTUGAL, ITALY and GREECE SALAMANCA: The city splashes out on culture
MUSIC: God's rock stars: the singing Greek monks
FOOD: Italy's unusual culinary delights
FILM: Great outdoor viewing in Rome
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GERMANY and BENELUX HORTICULTURE: The world blossoms at Floriade
BRUGGE: Belgium's second city shines
ART: Berlin's homage to multiculturalism ART: The best of the world's artists on show at Documenta 11
DANCE: Czech twin ballerinos steal the show in Hamburg MORE ..
CENTRAL and EASTERN EUROPE ART: Yugoslavia's modern art museum is back
ART: A retrospective of Samizdat art and writing from the Communist bloc
GRAZ: Austria's little-known city of culture
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THE NORDIC REGION DESIGN: Denmark celebrates Arne Jacobsen
MUSEUM: Get a blast from the past at Stalin World
STOCKHOLM: Welcome to the Venice of the North
MUSIC: Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes on tour MORE ..
PLUS LISTINGS: Other things to see and do in each region
From Kiri to Ozzy, Martinu To Boo-Choo
PRAGUE: Goth horror rocker-turned-MTV darling, Ozzy Osbourne
finds the venue to match the volume of his Ozzfest roadshow
— the massive Strahov Stadium. Support from fellow U.S.
headbangers Slayer, Tool, and local heavy heroes Skwor. May 30• tel: +42 (0)2 2481 8080•www.ticketpro.cz
ISTANBUL: For its 30th International Music Festival,
the city finds perfect pitch with a class lineup and stunning
venues. High notes this year: Kiri Te Kanawa sings Strauss,
Gidon Kremer plays Piazzolla and the Bang On A Can All-Stars
defy expectation. June 8-July 2• tel: +90 212 334
07 39•www.istfest.org/muzik
BRATISLAVA: Some 15 km out of town on the banks of the
Danube stands the Danubiana-Meulensteen Art Museum — a
ship-shaped home to local and international contemporary art.
Its summer exhibition includes work by Spanish painter Miguel
Ybañez. June 23-Aug. 23• tel: +421 903
545 235 •www.danubiana.sk
KRAKOW: Almost expunged in the Holocaust, the return
of Jewish life to the district of Kazimierz is celebrated in
the Jewish Culture Festival. Drawing on the artistic wells of
Israel and New York, this year's program includes concerts from
renowned cantors Benzion Miller, Yaacov Motzen and Israel Rand,
workshops on cooking and Hasidic dancing and wild Klezmer on
every corner. June 22-30• tel: +48 12 429 25
73 •www.jewishfestival.pl
BUDAPEST: The word búcsú translates as
absolution and farewell. The Budapest Búcsú (pro-nounced
boo-choo) festival celebrates the depar-ture of the last Soviet
soldier from Hungarian soil in 1991, and every year it translates
into a full-on party, rock festival and carnival that sprawls
across the city's squares, parks and concert halls and costs
not a single forint. June 29-30• tel: +36 1 486 33
11•www.festivalcity.hu
BREGENZ: The floating stage on Lake Constance is now
the flagship of the Bregenz Festival. Last year's giant café
for La Bohème from Richard Jones and Antony Mc-Donald
was so popular it's back again. Too popular? Then try Bohuslav
Martinu's psycho-dramatic opera Julietta at the Festival Opera
House. July 17-Aug. 18 • tel: +43 5574
407 6•www.bregenzerfestspiele.com
SOZOPOL: The annual Apollonia Festival staged in this
16th century resort on the Black Sea is a showcase for the best
in Bulgarian arts. Adding an edge this year is Marius Kurkinsky,
an openly gay pop icon in what's still a conservative culture.
Actor-playwright-director Kurkinsky premieres his Chekhov-inspired
play Little Comedies with the Plovdiv Theater. Sept. 1-10• tel: +359 2 980 7833
•www.apollonia.hit.bg
And a last tango in ... ST. PETERSBURG: Students at Tango
Argentino's popular twice-weekly classes at the Ballet Theater
will be on their toes for the visit of top dancers Agustina
Videla and Claudio Asprea from Argentina. From June 27 •tel: +358 6 420
1111 •www.tango.spb.ru
