CASABLANCA CALLING
The Moroccan city is racing toward the future with its eyes on the 2030 World Cup: major infrastructure projects, finance, and startups are turning it into Africa’s most ambitious metropolis. A cradle of a new generation of young people—educated and open to the world, creative and bold
THE PLASTIC SEA
In southern Spain, there is the highest concentration of greenhouses in the world — a laboratory of development and innovation visible from space, producing vegetables for all of Europe
THE MOTOR LAB
An Italian valley has always been home to the world's most iconic sports cars. A district of excellence that combines style, craftsmanship, and innovation. But today, the challenge is different: adapting to a changing future and rethinking the concept of speed
FLOATING FUTURES
After centuries of reshaping the land, the Dutch are embracing the philosophy of meebewegen — learning to live with water rather than against it. Will graceful, sustainable floating neighbourhoods offer a way forward as the sea continues to rise?
KNOCK ON WOOD AND CROSS YOUR FINGERS!
Superstition and good luck charms survive in the age of AI: they influence the actions of millions of people around the world and have always helped humans cope with the uncertainties of life
MEGALOPOLIS
Chongqing is the largest city in the world, known to (almost) no one, yet it is the protagonist of an extraordinary urban experiment. And the future of China today passes through here
RESILIENT DELTA
Threatened by human activity, climate change and the war in Ukraine, Romania's Danube Delta is home to a wonderful and fragile water labyrinth that must be defended at all way
QUEER CHINA
Capital of China's LGBTQ+ world, tolerant Chengdu is nicknamed ‘Gaydu’: a relaxed and inclusive free port where one can live one's homosexuality openly. An exception in a still deeply conservative country
THE GATE
Ten years ago, El Hierro staked everything on sustainability and renewable energy. Today the small Canary Island faces another epochal challenge: migration from Africa, a phenomenon that is turning it into the Lampedusa of the Atlantic
THE FORGOTTEN ITALY
The "inland areas" cover half of the national territory, and are inhabited by a quarter of the population. But neither transportation nor schools nor health care reach them.
PUSZTA IN TRANSITION
In Hungary, the last steppe of Europe is an exceptional habitat rich in biodiversity and tradition. But advancing modernity, intensive agriculture and severe water shortages are seriously threatening it
TIDELAND
The fragile Wadden Sea is one of the last wilderness areas in Europe. Threateded by climate change, it has become a laboratory of innovative eco-sustainable practices
THE YOUNG KOSOVO
How youth, technology and investment are transforming Europe’s youngest republic into the excellence of the Balkans
DIVES MARMORIBUS TELLUS
The world’s most valuable marble has been quarried in Carrara for two thousand years. But is it still sustainable?
TERRA INSTABILIS
Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields: the world’s most fearsome super-volcano is a potential time bomb
WHERE TAIWAN TOUCHES CHINA
Located about twenty kilometers from the coast of mainland China, the Matsu Islands archipelago is arguably the most strategic front in the world. And if Beijing ever invades the island of Taipei, it will start here
THE UGLY CROATIAN DUCKLING
Little considered in the past, Zagreb proves to be a fascinating crossroads of styles and cultures. But the adoption of the Euro in 2023 raised the cost of living and drove rents through the roof
SMELLING THE WORLD
It shapes our lives, affects our health, generates memories and emotions: a journey around the world to discover our most enigmatic sense
PLASTIC BEACH
Hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic end up in the Mediterranean (and oceans around the world) every year. To see this for yourself, just take a walk along any beach after a storm
SILICON VALLEY TOUR
Big Tech remains the secular sanctuary of a visionary world devoted to innovation
IN ASIA’S SILICON VALLEY
Journey to Hsinchu, the Taiwanese city where, fifty years ago, the future world capital of semiconductors was born
ROMA REVOLUTION
In Belgrade, with music and a thirst for empowerment, six talented women are on a mission to change the gypsy world
THE SMARTEST PORT IN THE WORLD
A genuine gateway into Europe, today Rotterdam is focusing on sustainability and innovation
THE CONCORDIA PROJECT
It’s ten years since the Costa Concordia disaster, and the ship no longer exists. And yet objects from that tragedy can be found all over Italy. They are relics that tell stories
THE BALTIC QUESTION
Along the border between Russia and NATO, where Russian speakers don’t always feel European
AILING LAND: JOURNEY THROUGH THE EDGE OF HEALTHCARE
Calabria in Southern Italy has some of Europe's worst hospitals. A story of the mafia and an inefficient health service
AGRICULTURE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
Climate change in the Mediterranean, new crops, damaged farmland and super technologies
LIFE IS NOW
Giving birth during the pandemic. Managing childbirth amidst fear, loneliness and uncertainty
NO ONE EVER CONQUERED US
A journey through the lives of the well-to-do in Malta, the EU’s smallest country
GAS CHAMBER DELHI
The Indian capital is the world’s most polluted city. And the consequences are disastrous
SILENCE
Admired and scorned, desired and damned, the absence of sound is a mystery humanity has always sought to unravel
A FRAGILE DREAM INSIDE THE MIDDLE EAST
Thirty years after the civil war, Lebanon is poised between economic crises and political instability
STANDOUTS & POORS
What really separates the richest town from the poorest one of the European Union?
THE NEW IRON CURTAIN
For a long time part of the Soviet Union, Estonia it’s in the middle of the new Cold War
THE WORLD CAPITAL OF POLAR BEARS
A journey to Churchill, in Canada — the southernmost place on Earth where, between October and November, polar bears can be observed. Yet with global warming and melting ice, these magnificent creatures face a real risk of extinction
THE DRAGON’S HEAD
Shanghai is the city where it’s worth making a life — and that will only become truer with time.