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RE: European Stories

Season 10 · Episode 14

Urban Exploration in Romania: Saving the Relics

0.030mJanuary 23, 2026

Ghost cinemas, spa towns whose splendor is now just a distant memory, depopulated villages: photographer Alex Iacob explores the abandoned places of Romania. With his camera, he fights against oblivion and documents what remains of a bygone era.

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Episode 1Will alcohol-free wine save winemakers?
Episode 2Malta - Desert or Water Laboratory of the Future?
Episode 3Bulgaria: The Super Physics Teacher
Episode 4Spain: High Seas Rescue
Episode 5Spiders: Between Phobia and Fascination
Episode 6Poor masters, poor beasts!
Episode 7Georgia's children, declared dead and then sold
Episode 8Last trip to Belgium, for euthanasia
Episode 9Give up alcohol and live life to the fullest!
Episode 10Disbanding of the PKK: a hope for peace?
Episode 11Latvia Arms Itself Against Putin
Episode 12Tracking Gas Leaks
Episode 13Climate: New Dangers in the Mountains
Episode 14Urban Exploration in Romania: Saving the Relics
Episode 15Ireland Overwhelmed by Cocaine
Episode 16Breast Cancer: Their Daily Struggle
Episode 17Romanian Expats: To Leave or to Return?
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Episode 19The reading phenomenon of Gen Z
Episode 20Forgotten villages in Albania's mountains
Episode 21Ninja, a sport conquers Europe
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Episode 23When there's no money for tampons and pads
Episode 24Foreign Doctors Save German Provincial Hospitals
Episode 25Living with floods
Episode 26Iranians in Europe: A Cry for Freedom
Episode 27Bosnia's Citizens and Illegal Waste
Episode 28The EU Parliament's Perpetual Commuting
Episode 29Orca Shows at an End?
Episode 30Not my king – Doubts about Charles
Episode 31Poland: These Milk Bars Have Become Cult Classics
Episode 32Kharkiv - My brother, dead in Ukraine
Episode 33A polar cold snap hits Northern Europe
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Episode 36Young French people take over old farms
Episode 37Too many animals in the zoo – How does modern species conservation work?
Episode 38Special Unit for Vienna's Migrant Women
Episode 39German Expats: Growing Old in Tuscany?
Episode 40Blacksmiths' Competition
Episode 41The Dinosaur Fossil Business
Episode 42Girl Power for an Ancient Ritual
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Episode 45The Challenges of Short Stature
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Episode 63Europe's Fight Against Cocaine
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Episode 126The Faroe Islands – In the Sights of the Great Powers
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