UNITED STATES OF BALKANS IS OUR DREAM

UNITED STATES OF BALKANS IS OUR DREAM

When you listen to an hour and a half of ska, reggae and rap spiced with familiar Balkan sound, Roma melodies ...

Balkon 3 presents: I am underground

Balkon 3 presents: I am underground

Just one more amusing, yet hopeful story

After many complications and confusion, after hundreds of kebebs and beers accompanied by heated but fruitful ...

Balkon3 Interview with Goran Gajic, director of “The Fall of Rock & Roll”and “The Storks Will Return”

Balkon3 Interview with Goran Gajic, director of “The Fall of Rock & Roll”and “The Storks Will Return”

Music and film are very good companions

Have Gun – Will Travel! Goran, film and music are your life, actually there is nothing else that can des...

Balkon3 interview: Richard Galliano

Balkon3 interview: Richard Galliano

his music carries sorrow, joy and optimism

When it comes to French accordion player Richard Galliano, it can be said that he did for the European music t...

Historic places in Istanbul – Samatya

Historic places in Istanbul – Samatya

I have lived in Istanbul for almost 40 years now, and I feel a duty to tell about the city. My first reportage...

Eleni Karaindrou – The movies are an inspiration for creating great works of art

Eleni Karaindrou – The movies are an inspiration for creating great works of art

The film music or the art music, today exists as a music genre for itself. Rare are the ones as Morricone, Mic...

Alcatraz in Thessaloniki

Alcatraz in Thessaloniki

Were there cells with sea view?

Were there cells with sea view? If you wanted to have a view from the highest places in Thessaloniki some 30 y...

Don’t just peek over: Join in! (How to travel like a local to the Cyclades islands)

Don’t just peek over: Join in! (How to travel like a local to the Cyclades islands)

Useful tips and information

The geography bit The Cyclades archipelago is situated to the south of the Aegean Sea within close reach from ...

Ilina Arsova – SAMURAI of the mountain tops

Ilina Arsova – SAMURAI of the mountain tops

Mountains make us better and happier people Depriving herself of everyday comforts for months, struggling to c...

“Turks and Greeks, as well as other neighbors are – indeed also literally – brothers”

“Turks and Greeks, as well as other neighbors are – indeed also literally – brothers”

Periklis Tsoukalas from BaBa ZuLa on interview for Balkon3 The BaBa ZuLa concert! Not just an event, but every...

On a Balcony

Famous houses of Veles: BALCONIES BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH

Famous houses of Veles: BALCONIES BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH

Balconies let light and warmth come into our homes, or the coolness of our gardens during summer nights. They can be our living rooms, bedrooms and gardens combined, so people from... Old architecture had soul
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The Balkans are a fascinating gastronomic region – Balkon3 interview with Zlatko Gall

“Eating only wholegrain cereal, some green leaves, drinking Evian water and running for 50 km a day. To hell with that! That’s not life” – Balkon3 interview with Zlatko Gall, a Croatian... Let people travel, not groceries
Food for the whole village – KESKEK

Food for the whole village – KESKEK

This tradition is on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage of Turkey. Several women from a small village in southeastern Turkey are singing songs around a huge stone mortar filled... When are we going to try your keskek?
Cradles – comfort and tradition

Cradles – comfort and tradition

A baby, a mother and a cradle… The cradle is the link in the divine communication between a baby and his mother. The story of the cradle began in the 1st... a century old cradle
Andrea Illy: "The massive consolidation in the global coffee segment doesn't worry us a bean"

Mr Illy talks espresso and illycaffè

Andrea Illy: “The massive consolidation in the global coffee segment doesn’t worry us a bean” Elegant and sophisticated, without palpable vanity; scrupulously polite, yet not stiff and formal; eloquent, but not... "We don't need a Clooney!"
The district of Monastiraki: Athenian history at a glance

The district of Monastiraki: Athenian history at a glance

“If you stand at the centre of Monastiraki Square and take a 360 degrees look around you, you get a pretty full representation of the Athenian past and present facing you...
Road to the World of Trade Skopje – Istanbul

Road to the World of Trade Skopje – Istanbul

Traders have been going back and forth the roads between Skopje and Istanbul for centuries. States and Empires have changed but the strong trade relationship has survived them all. Nowadays, many... Like a bull in a china shop
HRISTOPSOMO – Greek Christmas Bread

HRISTOPSOMO – Greek Christmas Bread

This round bread is indispensable at Christmas lunch, the most important meal of Christmas Day in Greece.Often you’ll find it topped by a B-shaped sign, which symbolizes the plough and whole... Ingredients and preparation
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Eyup and Pierre Loti Café in Istanbul

See into the heart and soul of true Istanbul with Balkon3 If you have seen everything in the European part of Istanbul, such as Taksim square or elegant Beyoglu, the noisy... No guide will ever take you there
Balkan sound in the heart of the Big Apple

Balkan sound in the heart of the Big Apple

Interview with New York Gypsy All-Stars: Exciting musical journey with artists from Macedonia, Greece, Turkey and the United States. A Greek bassist ducked into a little bar in New York’s Alphabet...
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