Three storeys of baroque and neo-Renaissance architecture rise above a forested valley in Lower Silesia. Ksiaz Castle is the third largest castle in Poland, a sprawling structure built and rebuilt over seven centuries. The Hochberg family owned it for generations, filling it with art, tapestries, and a library of forty thousand volumes. During the Second […]
Pärnu is Estonia’s “Summer Capital”, a charming Baltic seaside city with a 3-kilometre white sand beach, a beautifully preserved 19th-century spa quarter of tree-lined avenues and wooden villas, and a laid-back cultural scene that transforms the city into Estonia’s most popular holiday destination every summer. With a history as a Hanseatic trading port and a […]
Slovakia has 180 registered castles and ruins, more per capita than almost any European country, and Krásna Hôrka may be the most perfectly preserved of them all, a hilltop fortress near Roʒava that was never conquered, never destroyed, and survived intact from the 14th century until a devastating fire in 2012. The castle sits on […]