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

The Eltz Castle is commonly known as Burg Eltz, Burg being the translation for “castle” in German. The first written evidence ...

On Coronation Day, Mark Dapin takes a stroll through the lives and times of the royal family, one spectacular palace at a time. One of the nicest walks in London follows a trail through the lives ...

Munich was also the headquarters, and command centre of the Third Reich. As she soberly noted, the city’s soul is still ...

Photo by J. Irmišová et al. (2025.) Hidden beneath the floorboards of one of Europe’s oldest castles, a vanilla pod sat buried in a mixture of dirt and rubble. While it might not seem like ...

Rajasthan in India is also home to fairytale towns, albeit of a different hue. Hawa Mahal. Hawa Mahal, in the "Pink City" of Jaipur, is a five-story pyramid-shaped palace constructed in 1799 from ...