A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

The monastery is an outstanding repository of four centuries of Spanish religious architecture. It symbolizes two significant events in world history that occurred in 1492: the Reconquest of the ...

The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Valley between Melk and Krems, a landscape of high visual quality. It preserves in an intact and visible form many traces - in terms of architecture, (monasteries ...

The elegant Holsteiner is a warmblood horse developed in Germany. Historically, this breed’s bold and steady nature made it a popular choice as a farm horse and warhorse. Today, the Holsteiner ...

The bakery’s boterkoek (Dutch butter cake) delivers a dense, tender crumb with a subtle almond flavor that somehow manages to be simultaneously simple and complex—like a perfectly crafted sentence or ...

On the eve of leaving the city for good, an English art dealer found himself captivated by a 17th-century apartment. By Nick Haramis A DECADE OR so ago, Nicholas Ward-Jackson woke up one morning ...

A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by ...

The fabric designer Raffaele Fabrizio found a way to mine the past — both his own and his country’s — by moving into a sprawling Italian villa and (for now, at least) refusing to renovate.

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A four-year project to restore a 17th Century building in Guildford is now complete. The Grade I-listed Guildford House, on the High Street, was built in 1660 for John Childe, a lawyer who went on ...

Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago. That's according to data ...