In El Salvador’s Chalchuapa valley, Tazumal survived the massive Ilopango eruption, absorbed Teotihuacan influence, and later saw Nahua-Pipil migrants reshape its Maya-founded culture.

On the edge of Turin, at the foot of the Alps in the region of Piedmont, stands one of the grandest and most spectacular of all the palaces of Italy.

Come around a bend of the Moselle in western Germany and you will meet one of the most perfect castle views in the country. High on a cone of vine-covered

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, surrounded by the oldest and best-loved park in the Danish capital, stands a fairy-tale castle of red brick and copper-green spires that seems to have

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

Built by King Christian IV as a pleasure palace, Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen now keeps the Danish crown jewels, coronation thrones, and silver lions.

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