With around 5000 participants, the Europeade is Europe's biggest folklore festival. Since the 1960s, people from all over Europe meet every summer to showcase traditional costumes.

In an effort to keep their village alive, inhabitants have turned Portico di Romagna into a hotel. The alley is the hotel corridor, the market square is the lobby and the pub functions as the hotel bar.

Every summer, the Rapas das Bestas, or "sheering of the beasts", is celebrated in Galicia. Wild Horses in Spain's mountainous Northwest are rounded up.

People from over 190 countries live and work in Berlin. Deutsche Welle presents 50 of them in the book "Planet Berlin". Mario Lombardo of Argentina fulfilled a childhood dream in Berlin when he began creating perfumes.

How is it to have a home with a view of one of the world's most famous landmarks? English photographer Jasper White wanted to find out. He made portraits of people in apartments with a view of Paris's Eiffel Tower.

The World Santa Claus Congress is held in Copenhagen every year in the middle of summer! Santas from the world over have been getting together here since 1957 to exchange ideas and discuss the challenges of the job.

Dancing on a pole used to be confined to strip clubs and dance bars. Now, it's a sport popular with men and women alike. Dimitry Politov of Russia is an amazing talent and in demand worldwide as a performer and coach.

Around the world, Benoît Maubrey has installed his interactive sound sculptures. In his Berlin-based piece, visitors can play music or record messages, while the sound is heard on 320 loudspeakers.

The concept of Poland‘s first star chef is ‘tradition meets the 21st century‘. In his Warsaw restaurant Atelier Amaro, he re-interprets traditional recipes from the 16th and 17th centuries.

People from over 190 countries live and work in Berlin. A number of them told Euromaxx about their love for the German capital. One is native Berliner Dietmar Arnold.