The »Porte du Peyrou« is a triumphal arch in the southern French city of Montpellier. Completed in 1693, it was...

The »Porte du Peyrou« is a triumphal arch in the southern French city of Montpellier. Completed in 1693, it was...
Don Quixote and his friend Sancho Panza are certainly among the most famous novel heroes in the world and have been a...
The "Tulip Mania" was the first well-documented speculative bubble in European history. The day when the collapse of...
The city of Zadar on the Croatian Adriatic coast seems almost like a monument on which the course of the centuries can...
Although it is a cruel story from the pen of the Roman poet Ovid, it shall nevertheless be told here: One day the...
In the Austrian Salzkammergut lies one of the most beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Sites in our country, which even...
The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes has been inhabited since the Palaeolithic Age. After a...
Around 1380, the Swedish Imperial Councillor and landowner Bo Jonsson, a member of the Grip family, who had acquired a...
In 1073 the monk Hildebrand was appointed as pope Gregory VII, not by the cardinals, but by acclamation of the Roman...
In Christian symbolism the number three plays an important role, I am thinking for example of the Three Kings or the...
Vincent van Gogh was one of those geniuses to whom talent was not layn in the cradle. On the contrary, it was a long...
"The Vltava" is one of the works known to everyone. At least everyone who has heard the piece once has its powerfully...
Besides the most famous literary testimony of the Thirty Years' War, the "Simplicissimus" by Grimmelshausen, there is...
Christmas 1812: Half of Europe is occupied by French troops whose emperor is currently pull back from Russia. Prussia...
At the westernmost tip of Liguria, barely ten kilometres from the coast of the Ligurian Sea, in the middle of the...