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

Imagine a long, narrow sliver of coral and stone, barely three kilometres from end to end, lying in the warm blue water off the coast of northern Mozambique. It is

Stand on the grassy crown of Flagstaff Hill on a clear Newcastle morning, and you will feel why the army wanted this ground. The Tasman Sea stretches out ahead of

At the very tip of the Otago Peninsula, where the land narrows to a windswept headland above the entrance to Otago Harbour, sits one of the most remarkable survivals in

On a narrow neck of land between two great lakes, where the waters of Lake Champlain squeeze toward Lake George, stands a star-shaped stone fortress that played an outsized role

On a bluff overlooking the mouth of the Ozama River, in the heart of the oldest European city in the Americas, stands a fortress that can claim a truly remarkable

At the mouth of the Potengi River, where the waters meet the Atlantic on the northeastern shoulder of Brazil, stands a five-pointed star of ancient stone rising almost from the

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

High above the old town of Gotha in Thuringia rises one of the largest early baroque palaces in Germany. Friedenstein Palace, the rock of peace, was built in the middle

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.