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In the small village of Much Marcle, an ancient tree stands beside St. Bartholomew’s Church. Though the church dates back to the 13th century, the tree is even older—it has a few centuries on the building. The yew’s hollow trunk is vast enough to accommodate several people standing inside it. The yew’s longevity and grandeur […]
St John’s Church in Alresford is home to the final resting place of five Napoleonic prisoners of war. The French gravestones commemorate Lieutenant Pierre Garnier, marine Joseph Hypolite, Officer C Lavau, Lieutenant Jean de Thiulle, and Marie Louise V Fournier, the wife of a captain in Napoleon’s army, who passed away in Arlesford between 1810 […]
The Mdina Dungeons Museum has taken a much campier approach to teaching history than some of Malta’s more serious museums. It is located within the historic walled city of Mdina underneath the Magisterial Palace (also known as the Vilhena Palace). The construction of this building was commissioned in the 1720s by Grand Master Antonio Manoel […]
Just West of Chicago, there is a little spot of spooky in the charming downtown of St. Charles, Illinois. Ghoulish Mortals is made up of equal parts immersive haunted house-style vignettes, macabre art gallery, and pop culture collector gift shop. Haunting organ music leads you down the quaint downtown sidewalks and into the dark mysterious […]
The Yamadera area of Yamagata is best known for the eponymous temple complex, but east of it lies another sanctuary visited by far less tourists. Deeper into the woods at the back of Senju-in temple, the Mine-no-ura or “Other Yamadera” area was once a sacred place where Buddhist saint Ennin practiced his asceticism in the […]
Go for the energy of the mascots, marching bands and touchdown cheers, but don’t miss the museums, art, nightlife and more that make these places special. Source link
Flight crews see the world in 24- to 48-hour bites between international flights. On this trip, the stop is the crowded city on India’s west coast. Source link
When Poland joined the European Union 20 years ago, our world changed. I was a student in Warsaw, and spent my savings on a train ticket to Berlin – not for migrant work, but to see the 200 masterpieces at the Neue Nationalgalerie on loan from the New York Museum of Modern Art. In 2017, […]
Hanamaki City in Iwate Prefecture is notable for its associations with Kenji Miyazawa, a poet and author of children’s literature best known for his fantasy novel Night on the Galactic Railroad, written circa 1927 and posthumously published in 1934. The story follows the adventures of a lonely boy named Giovanni and his friend Campanella as they […]
When the Knights of St. John controlled the islands of Malta, they oversaw the construction of many public works buildings that would benefit the general populace. One of their projects was the construction of windmills for providing flour, and these buildings became central parts of the villages in which they were located. These Maltese windmills […]