Istanbul, Europe's largest city, is one of the best city break destinations in Turkey. The city has a mix of cultural ...

Byzantium was named after its legendary founder, Byzas, and quickly grew in importance due to its location, which controlled ...

The ancient city of Hadrianopolis, located in the Eskipazar district of Karabük, has officially been designated an ...

So rich is Istanbul in historic buildings of every stripe, especially Byzantine churches and colonnaded cisterns, Ottoman ...

Even more intriguing is the possibility that this wall may correspond with another area of the site, suggesting that a monumental structure may have once separated two levels of the city ...

with two luxury properties positioned on different sides of the former capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. It makes sense. Segmented by waterways, Istanbul is the only city in the world ...

offering a captivating window into the city's past. Philippi, of course, rose to prominence under its founder, Philip of Macedonia, father of Alexander the Great. Among the existing ruins, which ...

The world capital of sherry and flamenco is also a tranquil alternative to Seville, just over an hour’s drive north. The city ...

Archaeologists in Greece reported back from Philippi of the astounding archaeological marvels recently unearthed, including a youth in the wall.

Part of the ”Maestà”, an altarpiece composed of many individual paintings commissioned by the city of Siena in 1308 from the artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. Credit: Duccio di Buoninsegna, Wikimedia ...

At the same time, a second floor, reached by a spiral staircase in a square tower on the north wall, was built above the narthex and the exonarthex. It was probably used as the abbot’s residence or as ...

In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...