Crowning the very highest point of the ancient city of Toledo, its four square towers rising above a maze of medieval streets, stands the Alcázar, one of the most storied

On a long red-walled hill above the city of Granada, with the snow-capped peaks of the Sierra Nevada rising behind, stands the most beautiful palace of the Islamic world in

Anthony Burgess was forty years old when he learned he had a brain tumor that, he was told, would kill him within a year. At the time he had no

Source: Pixabay The Great Mosque of Kairouan is admired not only for its age but for the profound influence it had on Islamic architecture across the western Muslim world. Its

Come at Bukhara from the west, and the first thing you see is the Ark, a vast mound of a fortress rising abruptly out of the flat Central Asian plain.

We consume some of our foodstuffs raw and others by cooking. While the foods that are eaten raw should be washed and consumed very well, the correct cooking of the

In the heart of the old city of Damascus, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, hidden behind a plain wall near the Umayyad Mosque, lies one of

Hidden behind high walls in the old medina of Marrakech, away from the noise and color of the famous souks, lies one of the most beautiful buildings in Morocco. The

Source: Pixabay On a hill at the northern edge of Mexico City stands the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the most visited Catholic shrine in the Americas and one

Source: Pixabay Rising from a green Umbrian hillside in central Italy, the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is one of the most beloved churches in the Christian world. Built