The village clings to a limestone cliff 250 metres above the Coulon Valley. The houses are honey-coloured stone, stacked so tightly that one rooftop serves as the terrace for the house above. Gordes has been a Provence postcard since the 1950s, when artists and writers, including Marc Chagall and Victor Vasarely, settled here. The village […]
Frankenstein Castle perches on a wooded hilltop above Darmstadt in southern Germany, a crumbling medieval fortress that inspired Mary Shelley legendary novel. Built in the thirteenth century, the castle belonged to the Lords of Frankenstein, an actual noble family who owned these lands for centuries. Local legends speak of alchemists and experiments conducted within the […]