It’s hard to imagine Christianity without the Nicene Creed. Seventeen hundred years ago, what became the defining statement ...

For nearly 100 years, the legendary “Orient Express” crossed Europe to its easternmost terminus in Istanbul. The 80-hour ...

Tour de France will start in Edinburgh with the first three stages taking place in Scotland, England and Wales, the ...

As soon you find The Grange City Hotel head towards the courtyard and you’ll find the wall. On the west side of Vine Street, where the road opens out slightly into an extremely small square, is the ...

What are the best city building games? There’s nothing more relaxing than sitting down for an afternoon of city building games. We’ve lost countless hours lining up buildings just how we like ...

Haruki Murakami fans ought to rejoice, for that is exactly what has happened with the veteran Japanese writer’s latest, The City and its Uncertain Walls. The novel unfolds across two parallel ...

(Constantinople) Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district authorities have imposed a 24-hour ban on all events, starting at 8 a.m. on March 8, International Women’s Day, citing concerns over public order. This ...

It was built by Emperor Ly Thai To in the 11th century to honour a white horse which led him to the place where he decided to build some city walls. April to June is said to be the best time to ...

Several Western tour operators said in February that they had sent small numbers of foreign travellers into the north-eastern city of Rason after receiving permission from North Korean interlocutors.

The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople for just over ten centuries until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Yet, the wall survived both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with sections of ...