Verona is a city that most people visit for love. It is the city of Romeo and Juliet, of balconies and star-crossed romance, of a great Roman amphitheater where opera

In the old city of St. Augustine, Florida, on the shore of Matanzas Bay, stands a fortress unlike any other in the United States. The Castillo de San Marcos is

Guarding the narrow entrance to one of the finest harbours in the Americas, on a rocky headland facing the old city of Havana, stands the Castillo de los Tres Reyes

On a steep hill overlooking the old walled city of Cartagena, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, sprawls one of the greatest fortresses ever built in the Americas. The Castillo

Stand at the tip of the old city of San Juan, where the land runs out into the Atlantic, and you find yourself dwarfed by one of the mightiest fortresses

Some castles overwhelm you with size, and some seduce you with setting. Cesky Krumlov belongs firmly to the second kind. It does not sprawl across a mountain or crown a

On a rocky hill rising above the great park at the heart of Mexico City stands a building unlike any other in the Americas. Chapultepec Castle, with its terraces, towers,

High above the little town of Amboise, on a great rocky spur overlooking the River Loire, stands one of the most important royal residences in the history of France. The

Not every great castle is a fairy-tale palace. Some are meant to frighten, and few do it better than the Chateau d’Angers. Rising above the River Maine in the west

Come around the last bend in the road, and Chambord simply stops you. Out of the flat forest of the Sologne rises a fantasy in pale stone, a great white