High in the mountains of Abruzzo, in the wild and beautiful heart of central Italy, stands one of the most spectacular castles in the whole country. Rocca Calascio is a

Assisi is a city of peace. It is the birthplace of Saint Francis, the gentle friar who preached to the birds and embraced poverty, and pilgrims come from all over

In the middle of Copenhagen, rising from the oldest royal garden in the city, stands a castle that looks as though it has been lifted straight from the pages of

Deep in the green hills of Northland, a short drive from the Bay of Islands, lies a grassy hilltop crossed by low ridges and hollows that most passersby would never

On the European shore of the Bosphorus, at the very point where that famous strait narrows to its slenderest width, there rises one of the most magnificent and historically momentous

On a hill overlooking the ancient Inca capital of Cusco stand some of the most astonishing walls ever built. At Sacsayhuaman, enormous blocks of stone, some weighing well over a

High above the ancient city of Cusco, at over three and a half thousand metres in the thin air of the Peruvian Andes, stand some of the most astonishing stone

Before the pyramids of Giza rose, the story of monumental stone architecture began a little to the south, at Saqqara, the sprawling desert cemetery of Egypt’s first capital, Memphis. Here

On a river plain in Tajikistan, people were smelting copper and trading lapis lazuli across a continent six thousand years ago. Meet Sarazm, one of Central Asia’s oldest towns.

Some cities are remembered for their armies, others for their gods. Sardis is remembered for its gold. Long before it became a Roman provincial town or a stop on the