Vesta was an ancient Roman goddess of the domestic and civic hearth whose annual festival, the Vestalia, was celebrated in...
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The Floralia was a festival in ancient Rome in honor of the goddess Flora, held April 27 during the Republican...
Robigalia were the feasts dedicated to the god Rubigus so that the wheat did not ripen too early, exposing it...
The Cerealia was one of the most important festivals in Rome. It was held for seven days from mid- to...
On the Roman religious calendar, the month of April (Aprilis) was in general dedicated to deities who were female or...
Known simply as "La maison dans la Loire" (literally the House in the Loire), the three-storey building looks like the...
In the last several centuries before the fall of the Roman Empire (476 A.D.), Roman devotees of the goddess Cybele...
On March 17 the Romans celebrated Liberalia with sacrifices, processions, ribald and gauche songs, and masks which were hung on...
In ancient Roman religion, the Mamuralia or Sacrum Mamurio ("Rite for Mamurius") was a festival held on this day, March...
In ancient Roman religion, the Salii were the "leaping priests" (from the verb saliō "leap, jump") of Mars supposed to...
March 5 was the date of an annual, ancient Roman, nautical religious festival called Navigium Isidis, literally “Vessel of Isis”,...
In Ireland and Wales, the annual Feast of Rhiannon is celebrated by some still today in honor of the Celtic/Welsh...
March, spring month par excellence, marked the beginning of the Roman year, which did not end in winter, like ours....
The Anthesteria, in Ancient Greek Ἀνθεστήρια, was one of the four Athenian festivals in honor of Dionysus, "dead and reborn"....
The Caristia, also called Cara Cognatio, was one of several days in February that Ancient Romans honored family or ancestors....
In Norse mythology, Freyja is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr, a type of...
The Romans held their dead in great respect. They were "di manes", the "good" dead, or honoured ancestors never to...
In these days, from 7 to 17 February, ancient Romans were celebrating agricultural festivals of Fornacalia. It was a festivity...
The ancient Romans had a festival for nearly everything and, if you were a god, you got your own holiday....
The world-famous writer Jules Verne died of diabetes at the age of 77 on March 24, 1905, in Amiens, France,...
The 11th January is the day in honor of Juturna, born as a nymph of the sources and later became...
Every self-respecting Scottish castle has its own ghost, whether scary or melancholy, based on the history of each individual manor....
Little Dunmow Church, St Mary, is one of the oldest buildings in Essex, England. The building was originally the chapel...
Who would have though that simply painting a mural on the side of a regular building would have the same...
Sometimes, a visit to an old historic cemetery can provide an insight into the history of the city in which...
Not everyone knows that the Wheel of the Year is a set of eight seasonal celebrations spaced approximately 6-7 weeks...
Between the steep gorges of the Andes and the immense rainforests of the Amazonas region in Peru, there are surprising...
This eerie castle rots within the small village of Łapalice, Poland. It was abandoned before it was even completed, essentially...
St. John’s Dance, known historically as St. Vitus Dance, was a social phenomenon involving a type of dance mania that...
Someone has compared the first circumnavigation of the globe to the first adventures in space. The reason? Magellan and his...
