Many do not know that there was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a...
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As story goes today, 25th March 2021, Venice turns 1600 years old. But Venice, was it really founded on March...
Exactly ten years ago, on a Friday afternoon, March 11, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan struck off...
During the Middle Ages, many monks manually copied ancient books so they could be passed on to future generations. Over...
February 3th is the day dedicated to the holy protector of the throath, Saint Biagio (known in English as Saint...
According to traditions, Saint Anthony the Abbot, celebrated on this day, is Patron Saint of Amputees, animals, basket makers, brush...
Inaugurated on August 6, 1882 and designed by the engineer Enrico Gattinoni, the Monumental Cemetery of Lecco represents a real...
In some areas of Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Berchtold Day, or locally Berchtoldstag, is celebrated on this day, January 2. The...
Corenno Plinio is a small and charming medieval settlement just few minutes far from Dervio, on the eastern branch of...
The Laorca cemetery is located in the Laorca district north of Lecco, region of Lombardy, in Northern Italy, and has...
Long, long ago, on one Christmas Eve, the spiders were banished from homes as they were cleaned for Christmas and...
Guiding ships for countless centuries, as well as looking spectacular on the horizon, every lighthouse boast at least one of...
Old City Wall of Berlin: the last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city
November 2019 marked 30 years since the Berlin Wall, which divided East and West Berlin for more than 25 years,...
Imagine walking into one of most adorned room at Versailles...to buy a piece of cheese. Maybe it sound unlikely, but...
The Historical Regatta is the most traditional among the venetian events. It is a show that, each year the first...
The Créac'h lighthouse, in Breton Tour-tan ar C'hreac'h (translated as Tour-tan: lighthouse and C'hreac'h: promontory) is a lighthouse in the...
Each place has a more or less known heritage of curious stories, legends and mysteries, and Bologna, Italy, is no...
"Further west than the west", Ouessant is the westernmost island in Finistère, a department of France in the extreme west...
This lighthouse proudly stands at the end of Le Môle Saint-Louis, Sète’s pier. The jetty, 650 metres long, was the...
Bialetti, the Italian maker of the historic moka pot, a stovetop coffee machine and one of the most iconic kitchen...
"In the Euganean Hills, I had a small house built, decorous and noble; here, I live out the last years...
Located on Pointe Saint-Mathieu in Plougonvelin, around Brest in Finistère, Saint-Mathieu lighthouse was built in 1835 among the ruins of...
Hidden among the trees in northern Michigan and along the shores of Lake Huron in the Cheboygan State Park lies...
The frieze inscription on the Krematorium Sihlfeld, one of the oldest crematories in Switzerland, reads: "Flamme, löse das Vergängliche auf....
Germany's Volkswagen is the largest car maker in the world, after Toyota. Its 590,000 employees produce around the world nearly...
Shark Island was founded in 1795 off the coast of Luderitz, Namibia. Originally named Star Island, the land sat amidst...
On the west coast of the European continent, at Brittany's tip, Finistère's string of lighthouses shine as unshakeable witnesses to...
Did you know Aachen Cathedral, Western Germany, may be able to claim a special spiritual connection with the global coronavirus...
A cluster of slender rock pillars jut out from the ocean’s surface, miles away from civilization. From a distance, it...
White River is nearly twenty-four miles (about 38 km) in length and passes through White Lake before emptying into Lake...