Rome rewards the prepared traveller. The Eternal City draws millions of visitors each year, and like any great global capital, it demands a measure of awareness. Pickpockets work the crowded metro and the queues outside the Colosseum. Selfie sticks and backpacks can become weapons in packed piazzas where space is at a premium. The sun […]
Categories: Cities, Italy, Rome, Sights, Travelling Tips
Levoča is one of Slovakia’s most precious heritage towns, a remarkably preserved medieval trading city in the Spiš region whose Church of St. James houses the tallest wooden altar in the world (18.62 metres), a masterpiece of late Gothic carving by the legendary Master Paul of Levoča that is, astonishingly, 500 years old and still […]
