I came upon him unexpectedly. He was not alone. To be fair, my mind was mulling over the previous room, which explained…
A Roman retreat Eighteen Roman emperors came from Serbia – more than anywhere else outside Italy. One of them was Gaius Galerius…
Off the beaten track in Iraqi Kurdistan For millennia, empires have clashed in the breathtaking landscape of Mesopotamia, leaving in their wake…
Mistra, the Byzantine capital of the Peloponnese, is the most exquisitely beautiful of places, an unforgettable combination of peerless art and important…
Tom St John Gray goes in search of the Great Wall of China and the Forbidden City. With limited Chinese, I boarded…
In the land of the minotaur Early summer, before the start of the school holidays, is the ideal time to visit Knossos:…
Modern Italy has its problems, but it also has truly exceptional assets. Its new high-speed trains rate pretty highly on any list…
Just outside the fortified walls of Mdina, once the capital of Malta, are the remains of a fine example of a Roman…
Rome is empty of tourists in late January; Umbria is even emptier, yet on most days there is sunshine for nine hours.…
Forty minutes north of Budapest, on a bend in the Danube, occupying a strategic point on its western side, lies Visegrád. In…
Exploring a Gallo-Roman grand design The idyllic setting and picturesque ruins of the Gallo-Roman villa at Montmaurin certainly would have appealed to…
How the mighty have fallen High on a mountain top in a remote part of south-eastern Turkey, the gods congregate at a…
The World’s Longest Living Town Today, you will only get a view of Erbil Citadel ‘some four miles away’ from the window…