There is no other place on earth quite like the Forbidden City. For nearly five centuries it was the most secret and exclusive spot in the world, the sealed heart

There is a grim phrase associated with the man who finally ended France’s religious wars: “Paris is well worth a Mass.” Whether King Henry IV actually said it or not,

Most revolutions are written in blood. The one that reshaped England in 1688 was, by the standards of such things, astonishingly quiet — so quiet that its winners proudly named

Nothing quite prepares you for the Grand Palace of Bangkok. Behind its high white walls on the banks of the Chao Phraya River lies a dazzling city of gold and

Some monuments impress you with their beauty, others with their age, but the Great Wall of China overwhelms you with something rarer: sheer, almost incomprehensible scale, sustained across an almost

Turks are a nation that has gathered many human virtues in its being. In addition to our superior qualities such as heroism, warriorship, organizationalism, which are not seen as a

A short boat ride from the city of Dakar, off the coast of Senegal, lies a small and beautiful island whose name has become synonymous with one of the greatest

Some places hold a few centuries of history; the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long holds a thousand years. In the heart of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, this great walled

Some places hold both the glory and the tragedy of a nation within their walls, and the Imperial City of Hue is one of them. Spread along the banks of

For almost the whole of human history, the vast majority of people lived much as their great-grandparents had. They worked the land or worked with their hands, they travelled no