When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

From people-watching on the Spanish steps to throwing a coin in the iconic Trevi fountain, here are 12 romantic destinations ...

Rome has been around for almost three thousand years and yet carries all that weight of history with a dolce vita lightness ...

As the rest of Europe cools down, there’s a place where the sun still lingers, casting long shadows over quiet beaches and ...

Explore how the architecture of the English high street has evolved over the centuries. Medieval English towns were famously filled with narrow streets so to maximise space. It was common to build ...

The shrine attracted global attention in 2016 when restorers uncovered remnants of an ancient tomb ... incarnation of the church, built in the 330s on orders of Rome’s first Christian emperor ...

It is believed that the bikini was a 20th century invention, but an ancient mosaic reveals women in Rome wore it while ...

These rents assure upkeep of the five French churches in Rome, including Trinità dei Monti church atop the Spanish Steps. The stairway opened in 1725 under the patronage of the French king.

While Pope Francis was out of town in Asia and Oceania, a mini-tempest erupted in Rome after a French court appeared to ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh of the era — was set down in a mud hut somewhere in the Nile Delta.

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in ...