A guide to the Novgorod Kremlin, the ancient Detinets fortress, the oldest church in Russia and the spot where the country itself was born.

For seventy-two extraordinary days in the spring of 1871, the city of Paris governed itself. The national government had fled, the regular army had withdrawn, and into the vacuum stepped

High on a wooded peak above the town of Sintra, near Lisbon, stands one of the most extraordinary buildings in Europe: the Pena Palace. Painted in vivid reds and yellows,

On a small island in the Neva River, at the very heart of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, stands the fortress from which the whole of

Rising in great walls of red sandstone along the banks of the Yamuna river in the heart of Old Delhi, the Red Fort is the supreme monument of the Mughal

A 16th-century brick citadel that never fell, crowning the bluff where the Oka pours into the Volga.

Of all the orders of warrior-monks that arose in the Middle Ages, none has captured the imagination like the Knights Templar, the mysterious and powerful brotherhood of fighting monks whose

Some castles are single buildings; Óbidos is a whole town wrapped in walls. In the center of Portugal, north of Lisbon, rises one of the most enchanting sights in the

For most of the second half of the fifteenth century, England tore itself apart. The crown changed hands again and again, kings were murdered, princes vanished, and the great noble

The smoke rising from Turkmen Mountain did not surprise the Turkish public a little. We had compatriots in Bulgaria, Greece and Iraq, but what was Syria? By the way, we