From Dracula's castle and wild bears to pretty villages and UNESCO-listed heritage, why Brasov should be your next European ...

The Benedictine Monastery at Kylemore Abbey by Axo Architects has been revealed as the winner of the prestigious 2025 Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI) Public Choice Award.

Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ministers of both countries said late on Wednesday, after an Egyptian court ...

A court ruling in Egypt about St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai has sparked grave concern within the Greek Orthodox Church about religious freedom.

Egypt and Greece sought to ease tensions over the historic St Catherine’s monastery in the Sinai peninsula on Friday after a controversial court ruling said it sat on state-owned land.

India, with its rich spiritual heritage, is home to some of the world’s most ancient monasteries which are steeped in history. These monasteries are set in remote mountains, desert valleys, and ...

Dragomirna monastery features, at its centre, one of Romania’s narrowest and tallest churches — the last of the area’s painted churches to be built in a hundred year spree, during the 15th and 16th ...

Having been blackmailed into attending an in-law’s wedding, I was late to the adventure and caught up with my group, on day three (of five), outside a 16th-century painted monastery in Vatra ...

I visited Romania this fall on a Road Scholar tour that started in Romania’s capital, Bucharest. My group traveled north to Braslov and then Bucovina’s famous painted monasteries before ending in Cluj ...

Romania surprises with its Romance language roots. The central-eastern European country is surrounded by Slavic languages in Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine and Moldova, plus Hungary’s Uralic language ...

Here's a list of 11 beautiful yet underrated European cathedrals scattered across the continent, and the fascinating stories behind their origins.

A good season for a long walk in the European countryside. Especially if your walk starts with a day wattling and daubing ...