Twice each summer, Siena’s Piazza del Campo transforms into a medieval battlefield. The Palio is not a costume party. It is a bare-knuckle horse race between seventeen contrade, the city’s historic neighbourhoods, and the competition is fierce. Jockeys ride bareback around a dirt track laid over the cobblestones, whipping each other as often as they […]
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Turku is Finland’s oldest city and former capital, a lively cultural hub on the southwest coast at the mouth of the Aura River where a magnificent medieval castle, a striking 13th-century cathedral, and a vibrant food and festival scene combine to create Finland’s most historically rich and arguably most charming urban destination. Founded in the […]
Toruń is one of Poland’s most beautiful and historically significant cities, a UNESCO World heritage Gothic masterpiece on the banks of the Vistula River whose perfectly preserved medieval Old Town of red-brick churches, merchant houses, and defensive walls is one of the finest ensembles of Gothic architecture in Europe. Birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus in 1473, […]
