Twenty minutes from the Colosseum lies a Roman city frozen in its final day. Ostia Antica was the harbour of ancient Rome, a bustling port where grain from Egypt and wine from Gaul entered the empire. Today you can walk its streets and step inside taverns, apartments, baths, and temples that still stand with their […]
Gold covers nearly every surface inside Monreale Cathedral. Six thousand four hundred square metres of Byzantine mosaics tell stories from the Old and New Testaments. The figures stare down from the walls with enormous eyes, their robes shimmering in the dim light. King William II built this cathedral in the twelfth century to outshine the […]
Categories: Islands, Italy, Nature, Religious Monuments, Sicily, Sights, Sights, Virtual Travel
Castillo de Coca is one of the most beautiful medieval fortresses in Spain, a fairy-tale 15th-century Mudéjar castle in the province of Segovia, Castile and León, whose walls and towers are built not of grey stone but of warm red brick decorated with intricate geometric patterns, blind arches, and glazed tiles in the Mudéjar style, […]
Categories: Castles, Sights, Sights, Spain, Virtual Travel, Wellness, Relax & Sports
