Some fortresses are remembered for the battles fought at their walls, but Fort Santiago is remembered above all for what happened within them. Standing at the mouth of the Pasig

If Kronborg is the fortress of the Danish golden age, Frederiksborg is its dream palace. Rising on three small islands in the middle of a lake at Hillerød, north of

From the legions of Rome to the genius of the Renaissance and the cuisine that conquered the world, the story of the Italians, a fragmented people with a universal cultural legacy.

The cannons captured by the Bulgarian Army as a result of the 1st Balkan defeat of the Ottoman Empire.

Some forts are monuments to war, but Galle Fort is a monument to life. On a rocky peninsula at the southern tip of Sri Lanka stands a whole walled town,

Rising from a great granite hill on the outskirts of the city of Hyderabad, in the Deccan plateau of southern India, the mighty ruined fortress of Golconda is one of

Where the mighty Danube, the great river of central Europe, narrows dramatically to force its way through the mountains, there stands one of the most magnificent fortresses in all of

Deep in the interior of southern Africa rise the magnificent stone ruins of Great Zimbabwe, the remains of one of the greatest cities of medieval Africa. Its massive walls, built

“Greek civilization is definitely a follower of Anatolian civilization.It is not a forerunner. It cannot be a pioneer because the Greek existence is not as old as the Anatolian civilization.When

On a small island in Lake Mälaren, west of Stockholm, stands one of the most romantic and historically rich castles in Sweden. Gripsholm, with its round red-brick towers reflected in