One famous castle in France can offer you plenty of beautiful garden views, tons of history and art, and even wine tastings – ...

Clair Dinhut's family home is no ordinary house: it's a 9th-century water mill in France, complete with original stone floors ...

John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the ...

And working from the shadows is nobleman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (Jérémie Renier), a savvy statesman who’s ...

The Korean artist discusses her fierce feminist manhwa debut, ‘Raging Clouds’ (Fantagraphics, May), which garnered a PW ...

A rare exhibit of the Holy Tunic of Christ — believed to be the garment worn by Jesus during his passion — is drawing ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo ...

By the Middle Ages, many bakers only kept the cross on Good Friday bread. According to popular tales, one 12th-century English monk made spiced buns marked with a cross on Good Friday, because ...

Chaise longues were designed for society’s upper crust. While they were popularised in 16th century France, the design dates back to around 3000 BC. Archaeologists discovered the long chair in ...

The answer may lie with the British Royal Navy. Since its inception in the 16th century, the navy served three regular meals to align with the shipboard routine. This included a simple breakfast ...

As a practitioner of magic in 16th century Venice, the bones were essential to her practice and without them she wouldn’t be able to conjure the spirits necessary to her magic. Just as she made ...