ATHENS Athens (pop 3.8 million) Athens (Ancient Greek: Athênai) is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest…
Greece – Epirus - March 31-April 1 2019. This part of Greece stretches across the entire north of the country.…
Officially the Republic of Malta consists of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea 80 km south of Sicily, 284 km east of Tunisia and 333 km north of Libya. With a population…
FORTIFICATIONS of MALTA. Consist of a number of walled cities, citadels, forts, towers, batteries, redoubts, entrenchments and pillboxes. The fortifications were built over thousands of years, from around 1450…
L’œuvre architecturale d’Henry van de Velde (08/04/2008) Henry Clemens Van de Velde (1863–1957) was a Belgian (born in Antwerp) painter,…
Arguably Scotland’s most beautiful and enigmatic church, Rosslyn Chapel only reached fame with Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and…
UNESCO has added 17 projects by 20th-century French architect Le Corbusier to its list of internationally significant architecture sites, including the Unité d'Habitation housing…
THE PO PLAIN. Completely flat it extends from Bergamo in the north to Mantua in the southeast. MANTUA (pop 49,000). Actually in…
SAN MARINO. Of the world’s 196 independent countries, San Marino is the fifth smallest, and the most curious. A sole…
ABRUZZO & MOLISE PROVINCES Bisected by the rugged Apennines mountains, these two provinces are rarely on the tourist radar. A…