We’re with the all-female team Ellen Lohr and Sophia Flörsch on the 1600 kilometer stretch from Brescia to Rome and back. The women are driving an elegant sports car, a 1955 Mercedes 190 SL.

People from some 190 nations live and work in the German capital. DW presents 50 of them in a new book "Planet Berlin". They tell Euromaxx what brought them here --like Israeli pretzel baker Oren Dror.

Pietro Proserpio, a retiree living in Portugal’s capital Lisbon, builds entire worlds with a little junk and lots of imagination and brings them to life with complex technology. His machines have enchanted thousands.

Under the motto “Water is Life and Light is Art“, artists from around the world and Italy have transformed Brixen’s city center into a space for installations of light and water. Some 80,000 visitors are expected.

11-year-old violin virtuoso Teo Gertler is causing a stir on the international music scene. The Slovakian child prodigy plays the most difficult violin concertos by heart and receives rave reviews.

ONE stands for the prototype, ELEVEN stands for the limited edition. The Berlin design studio has garnered widespread acclaim and won top design awards.

For one week every spring, Jerez de la Frontera celebrates a festival for the three pillars of its world-fame: horses, flamenco and sherry. The Feria del Caballo attracts visitors from around the world to southern Spain

White asparagus is one of Germany’s favorite seasonal vegetables, while the rest of Europe prefers green asparagus. Asparagus season is always very short here in Germany.

The ten-week "Cook The Farm" course goes beyond cooking to deal with such aspects of meal preparation as milking the cows, composting and growing special varieties of vegetables.

About a thousand retro bike riders in smart and stylish garb cycled round the British capital’s most famous sights before settling in for picnics and afternoon tea. The Tweed Run is collecting more and more fans.