According to the World Population Review, France has the highest number of castles in 2025, 45,000. Second is Italy with less ...

A show at the Morgan Library & Museum centers on a popular travel compendium of the medieval era, filled with exaggerations ...

A yearly tradition since 1977, the medieval fair in Norman opens Friday in Reaves Park to a full weekend, transporting fairgoers back to the year 1360. The cast of characters shifts from year-to-year, ...

While traditional religious practices may be on the decline, pilgrimages — meditative, multi-day hikes — are experiencing a resurgence. Explore the routes that are offering new, mindful journeys in ...

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

While it still takes some pretty big geographical liberties, the second game’s map — which takes in a small corner of southeastern France and ... dotted with historic medieval towns.

Taking in a large swathe of the Pyrenees, the Lleida region displays Catalonia at its most raw and rugged. Now, it's increasingly putting itself on the map as a responsible travel destination with ...

The Gorizia Wall was erected in 1947 – 14 years before the Berlin Wall was built – and stood for 57 years, surviving the end ...

Ideally located on the Seine, Rouen became one of France's greatest ports ... It is home to the famous Bayeux medieval tapestry, but other charms include its picturesque town center and gorgeous ...

Some restaurants feed you; others transport you. Le Chêne does both, proving that sometimes the most authentic French ...

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.