It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

I have visited three times. It is literally where East meets West and is a fantastic city to visit if you’re curious about the Middle East and Northern Africa but a bit unsure about scheduling a big ...

Behind the golden walls of the imperial harem, the real power of the Ottoman Empire often rested with its women. In this ...

Third episode, tonight on TV, Monday, April 28, in prime time on Rai1, with Rai Cultura and 'Ulisse, il piacere della ...

The Princess Royal has remembered “brave Anzacs” in their own words during a dawn service in north-west Turkey where ...

The Pharo Palace in Marseille was illuminated with the colors of the Armenian flag in memory of the victims of the 1915 ...

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

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From Versailles to Venice, these palatial properties let you live like a king or queen—even if just for a night.

Princess Niloufer was born on 4 January 1916 at Göztepe Palace in Istanbul, during the final days of the Ottoman Empire. Her father died when she was just two, and following the dissolution of the ...

Growing up in a multicultural neighbourhood in the 1940s, the boy who would become Pope witnessed drugs, prostitutes... and ...