In a country where almost everything is built from grey granite or dark timber, there stands a castle the colour of warm terracotta. Häme Castle rises in glowing red brick

On the banks of the Thames upstream from London stands a palace that is really two palaces in one, joined at the seam and telling two different stories of English

In the heart of Kathmandu, amid a square crowded with pagoda temples and thronged with worshippers, pilgrims, and traders, rises the ancient royal palace of Nepal. Its brick walls and

Hazarduari Palace in Murshidabad, the Palace of a Thousand Doors, was the grand seat of the Nawabs of Bengal. Explore its European architecture, famous doors, treasures and riverside history.

When his father Muhammed Hudabende lost his sight, the conflict between the emirs reached its peak. The impact of his wife Begum’s policy against orders cannot be denied. The emirs,

At a time when the Abbasid caliphate was weakened and the Crusader attacks turned into a bloodbath, Nureddin Mahmud b. rose like the sun in the sky of the Islamic

30 November 2015 If we don’t get up, the provinces will be scattered If we don’t press, the roads are open If we don’t see, the sounds are blurry If

High on a ridge above the little town of Rudolstadt in Thuringia, a long, pale palace looks out over the valley of the Saale. Heidecksburg was for centuries the seat

Most palaces were built to impress, to govern or to house a court. Hellbrunn was built for fun. Just south of Salzburg, at the foot of a wooded hill, a

Few decisions in English history have echoed as loudly as one man’s determination to end his marriage. When Henry VIII set out, in the late 1520s, to rid himself of