The »Porte du Peyrou« is a triumphal arch in the southern French city of Montpellier. Completed in 1693, it was...
Cultural history
Cervantes Monument in Madrid
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
The "Tulip Mania" was the first well-documented speculative bubble in European history. The day when the collapse of...
The city of Zadar
The city of Zadar on the Croatian Adriatic coast seems almost like a monument on which the course of the centuries can...
The history of the carnation
Although it is a cruel story from the pen of the Roman poet Ovid, it shall nevertheless be told here: One day the...
Hallstatt in Austria
In the Austrian Salzkammergut lies one of the most beautiful UNESCO World Heritage Sites in our country, which even...
Chambord Castle
The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes has been inhabited since the Palaeolithic Age. After a...
Gripsholm Castle
Around 1380, the Swedish Imperial Councillor and landowner Bo Jonsson, a member of the Grip family, who had acquired a...
Penance Walk to Canossa
In 1073 the monk Hildebrand was appointed as pope Gregory VII, not by the cardinals, but by acclamation of the Roman...
All good things come in threes
In Christian symbolism the number three plays an important role, I am thinking for example of the Three Kings or the...
Self-portrait with grey felt hat
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
"The Vltava" is one of the works known to everyone. At least everyone who has heard the piece once has its powerfully...
Peter Hagendorf
Besides the most famous literary testimony of the Thirty Years' War, the "Simplicissimus" by Grimmelshausen, there is...
Before the storm
Christmas 1812: Half of Europe is occupied by French troops whose emperor is currently pull back from Russia. Prussia...
Ponte Vecchio di Dolceacqua
At the westernmost tip of Liguria, barely ten kilometres from the coast of the Ligurian Sea, in the middle of the...