A thousand years of rain and frost, and the glacier that once covered the Ritten plateau melted 10,000 years ago. What it left behind is a forest of earth pillars capped by boulders that look as though a giant dropped them from a great height. The pillars cluster in a ravine above the village of […]
Ravenna was once the capital of the Western Roman Empire and its golden mosaics remain as proof of that glorious past. You step into a small unassuming church and look up to find every surface covered in glittering tiles. Emperors and saints stare down from the walls their robes made of thousands of tiny pieces […]
