Cox & Kings’ specialist tours are designed for culture lovers who want to immerse themselves in the places they visit ...

What was uniquely unveiled by the restoration of the 12th-century Saviour Transfiguration Church in PolotskThe restoration of the ...

Surrounded by mountains in the heart of the Balkans, Sofia’s strategic location made it a focus for invasion over the centuries.

In our modern world, moving at such an ultra-fast pace, it can feel like our cities are getting stripped of their history and ...

The so-called “stateless people,” who originally migrated from northern India to Europe in the 14th century, are today ...

In 1631, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I commissioned the Taj Mahal to house the tomb of his favorite wife. With its symmetrical ...

From Orthodox iconography at the Byzantine and Christian Museum to prehistoric sculpture juxtaposed with contemporary art at the Museum of Cycladic Art and 20th-century Greek painting and folk art ...

1 To this day, the Greek Orthodox Christians venerate a wellspring of Nazareth ... in her hand is dated back to the seventh century (Milano, ivory cover). The Byzantine mosaic portraying the ...

Some prominent women of the Byzantine Empire ended up as saints, scholars, patrons of both art and religion ... offering them significant power within local communities. Within the Orthodox Christian ...

Architects seek to meld the spiritual and the practical in places of worship, which have been marvels for thousands of years—works of art in a range ... back to 1425, the Byzantine-Cycladic ...

The first building to include a fully pendentive dome, Hagia Sophia is a paragon of Byzantine architecture ... genius behind the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, a saucer-shaped modernist ...

Built high and strong to deflect cannon fire, the Fortezza still houses a series of caves, as well as the remains of a Turkish mosque and a Greek Orthodox chapel. The area around the Fortezza ...