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 ...
The city of Rome ... ancient churches, bring your binoculars and take in every last detail. Sit in a wooden pew, front and center, and feel yourself transported to a spiritual world. My favorite ...
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 ...
Ever found yourself lost in the scenes of your favourite movie or drama, or had the overwhelming urge to jet set right into ...
It was a fitting place for the millennial aspiring politician, who was drawn to the Roman Catholic Church’s ancient ways ... “City of God” challenged Rome’s ruling class and drew Mr ...
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 ...
Afterwards, on our own, we took a funicular from Bergen’s downtown to the top of Mount Floyen for a panoramic view of the city ... Portmahomack, in an ancient church on the site of the only ...
Genealogy of a column, journeys of an arch, secret life of beams and rafters, and other adventures of building structures.
From Edward Berger, director of Netflix's harrowing war flick All Quiet on the Western Front, this religious conspiracy ... who leads the Catholic Church's search for a new Pope when the current ...