High in the mountains of Abruzzo, in the wild and beautiful heart of central Italy, stands one of the most spectacular castles in the whole country. Rocca Calascio is a

Assisi is a city of peace. It is the birthplace of Saint Francis, the gentle friar who preached to the birds and embraced poverty, and pilgrims come from all over

Just south of Poznan, where the Warta River winds through meadows and old oxbow lakes, stands one of the most beautiful aristocratic residences in western Poland. Rogalin Palace, the seat

In the middle of Copenhagen, surrounded by the oldest and best-loved park in the Danish capital, stands a fairy-tale castle of red brick and copper-green spires that seems to have

In the middle of Copenhagen, rising from the oldest royal garden in the city, stands a castle that looks as though it has been lifted straight from the pages of

Built by King Christian IV as a pleasure palace, Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen now keeps the Danish crown jewels, coronation thrones, and silver lions.

Deep in the green hills of Northland, a short drive from the Bay of Islands, lies a grassy hilltop crossed by low ridges and hollows that most passersby would never

On the European shore of the Bosphorus, at the very point where that famous strait narrows to its slenderest width, there rises one of the most magnificent and historically momentous

Amid the flat green farmland of southern Latvia, far from any great city, rises one of the most magnificent baroque palaces in all of northern Europe. Rundale Palace, a vast

Designed by Rastrelli for the Duke of Courland, Latvia’s Rundale Palace is a Baroque masterpiece rescued from ruin and known as the Versailles of the Baltic.