From southern Sicily to Puglia, Italy is full of villages and small towns where Baroque art has left a spectacular mark. Here ...

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Harvard Art Historian Cécile Fromont examines a baroque tapestry and its embeddedness in Atlantic Colonialism FRANKFURT A tropical menagerie set in a lush landscape surrounds almost imperceptible ...

Continue your exploration of the vast Kraftwerk Mitte site with a matinee performance at Staatsoperette Dresden, which stages ...

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Towering above the city on a hill is the Ljubljana Castle, a remarkable medieval fortress dating back to the 12th century, ...

head of state of the Vatican and proprietor in trust of the Vatican’s great collection of art and historic architecture. The Argentina-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the 266th pope in succession ...

Sylvia Poggioli has covered several papal conclaves and the Vatican for decades. For this week's reporter's notebook, she reflects on what it's like to cover one of the most secretive institutions in ...