France is known for its grand, palatial châteaux, but the country also boasts a collection of incredible ruined castles that ...

Prince Borivoj of the Premyslid Dynasty (probably) started building Prague Castle in AD 880, and over the centuries various ...

In a world where baby name trends often come and go with the seasons, there's something timeless and enduring about ...

When you think of France, you most likely think of big cities like Paris and Marseilles, or iconic landmarks like the Eiffel ...

THE traditional conception of England among average Frenchmen is expressed in the words "perfidious Albion." Some years ago I made an effort to run down the source of the term. I failed. One meets it ...

Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

In our hyperconnected world of constant notifications and updates, Clayshire Castle offers something increasingly rare: a genuine escape from modern life. The stone walls seem to block out not just ...

To find out the longest-living dog breeds, Stacker examined data from the journal Nature and the American Kennel Club's 2024 breed popularity rankings.

TOM PINFOLD: In the uncertain world of the Medieval Age, castles were a hub of shelter, work and security.They became large communities of workers, soldiers and nobility who all needed supplies of ...

“We saw his kindness and nobility. He was the people’s Pope ... The Pope's army hails from Switzerland because during the Middle Ages and Renaissance the Swiss developed a reputation for ...

The commandments handed down by God to Moses, the Roman Code of Justinian and the Salic law of Germanic France had all laid ... some of the basic laws of medieval England, and which is often ...