On the humid Caribbean coast of Panama, where jungle-clad hills tumble down to a sheltered bay, lie the crumbling ruins of forts that once guarded one of the greatest concentrations

There are cities where the castle is a museum you visit and then leave behind, a stop between lunch and the train. Prague is not one of them. Here the

In the karst country of southwestern Slovenia, tucked into the mouth of a cave in a towering vertical cliff, stands one of the most astonishing castles in all of Europe.

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

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