San Pietro in Vincoli – home of Michelangelo’s statue of Moses | Rome, Italy Updated: November 15, 2020 | By Claire | More San Pietro in Vincoli (Saint Peter in Chains) is a three-aisled basilica located in Rome, Italy. It is supported by twenty ancient columns and was founded in 442. Over the centuries has […]
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The Stone Bridge in Písek is the oldest surviving bridge in Central Europe — a magnificent 13th-century Gothic structure spanning the Otava River in southern Bohemia, predating Prague’s famous Charles Bridge by nearly a century. Built around 1270 under King Ottokar II of Bohemia, this 111-metre bridge of seven arches has survived floods, wars, and […]
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The Torre de Hércules (Tower of Hercules) is the oldest active lighthouse in the world — a 55-metre Roman lighthouse built in the late 1st century AD on a rocky headland in A Coruña, Galicia, northwestern Spain, that has been guiding ships into the harbour continuously for over 1,900 years. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage […]
Bunratty Castle and Folk Park is one of the best heritage attractions in Ireland — a superbly restored 15th-century tower house near Shannon Airport in County Clare that, together with its reconstructed 19th-century Irish village (complete with traditional cottages, a school, a pub, and costumed interpreters), offers the most immersive journey into Irish medieval and […]
