From tapas and sangria to late night flamenco shows and countless historical sites, Spain is bursting with unique experi ...

For history lovers, its ancient ruins and museums lined with artifacts should entice—but if your idea of a getaway is one ...

Salzburg, Austria may be a beautiful, historic city, but that doesn’t mean it caters strictly to adult travelers. There ...

This gargantuan building with its vast plaza was the centrepiece for the 1929 Expo. Designed to display Sevillano construction and design skills ... (ceramic tiles) for Catholic rulers.

And Elizabeth persecuted Catholic priests and nobles ... showed off their expanding riches by building new styles of houses. They moved away from the design of earlier Tudor homes, in which ...

His legacy is a body of work — both sacred and secular — unique in the 20th and early 21st centuries. It’s truly a gift to ...

Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

The Nicaraguan dictatorship has forced the Poor Clare nuns to leave their monasteries in Managua and ... attacks by the dictatorship against the Catholic Church in the Central American country ...

Some of these residences, like the Meteora Monasteries in Greece and Popa Taung Kalat in Myanmar, were built at the summits of massive monoliths that dominate the entire landscape. Others ...

But it is perhaps best-known for its oval shape. Set on the island of Visovac lies a Catholic monastery of the same name, which stands as a living example of centuries of devotion. Its roots ...

The Charterhouse was established as a monastery in the ... would secure the future of the building The Charterhouse was once one of nine Carthusian Houses, a Catholic religious order, and grew ...