Like a gaping scar on its heart, the Danube, the longest river in the European Union, bears silent witness to the changes in the history and geography of Mitteleuropa (Central Europe). Madrid-based photographer Paco González San Agustín has captured with his lens not only the beautiful and evocative landscapes that surround it, from its source in the Black Forest to its mouth on the Black Sea, but also those latent wounds that, far from healing, fester from time to time in the form of wars, tensions of all kinds, and migrations. His photographs bear the marks of the history and culture of the old Danubian civilization, that of Central Europe with its mosaic of peoples, certainties, anxieties, and hopes. The creation of this project has been a journey through space and time, traveling between the past and the present to try to understand the meaning of contemporary events. And, as one would expect, Claudio Magris's book, The Danube (1986), has been the essential reference work on this journey. However, almost thirty years have passed since its publication, and this photographic exhibition, accompanied by a catalogue of the same name, expands upon that fascinating journey begun by Magris, through the new realities and historical events that have emerged in the territories influenced by the Danube. These include the fall of the Berlin Wall and the socialist regimes; the terrible Balkan War and the resurgence of ethnic and religious tensions that, although seemingly overcome, are rooted in the worst of European traditions; Germany's strengthened role in a context of economic crisis; and the new migratory movements from the Middle East. Paco González San Agustín presents an exhibition that, through a selection of sixty photographs accompanied by the texts that inspired this journey, allows us to trace the spirits of Céline in Sigmaringen, Heidegger in Meekrich, Einstein in Ulm, Kepler in Regensburg, Lukács in Budapest, and Canetti in Bulgaria, as well as those of Prince Eugene, Napoleon, and Suleiman the Magnificent. But this exhibition also brings to the forefront the controversial link between Germanism and the concept of Mitteleuropa, with all its political connotations beyond the purely geographical.