Perugia sits high on a hill in Umbria, a city of Etruscan foundations and medieval towers where chocolate hangs in the air as surely as history does. This is the home of Perugina, the company behind Baci chocolates, and the annual Eurochocolate festival draws sweet-toothed travellers from across Europe. But Perugia is more than confectionery. […]
Maastricht is one of the Netherlands’ most distinctive cities, a vibrant university town whose medieval heart of cobbled streets, Roman ruins, and Gothic churches has more in common with Flanders or Wallonia than with the canal-ringed cities of Holland. Sitting at the southernmost tip of the Netherlands, wedged between Belgium and Germany, Maastricht’s cosmopolitan, Burgundian […]
Categories: Netherlands, Sights
