It’s no longer the largest church in Christendom, but St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is still the most fabulous.

Rome. The Eternal City’s blend of ancient monuments, decadent food and charming neighborhoods recently became easier to reach ...

The underground cemeteries, nearly 2,000 years old, hold some of the earliest evidence of Christian faith, belief in the ...

built on the presumed location of St Peter's tomb, is one of the most important monuments in Christendom. With construction ...

A local historian went to Rome for the first time during the conclave. But he wasn’t expecting ‘that’ kind of history.

I have walked the rooms and gone up and down the staircases many times, gasping at their beauty, always experiencing the ...

Castles, parks, historical architecture, ancient artefacts: what to see in the regional centres of BelarusYou can spend the summer months ...

Just fifty yards from Rotherhithe Station is a narrow door through which you can descend into the 1825 shaft via a makeshift staircase. You find yourself inside a huge round cavern, smoke-blackened as ...

Affectionate, loyal and incapable of indiscretion, it’s easy to see why dogs have been the Royal Family’s faithful friends ...

975: Death of Edgar, King of England. 1497: Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama departs on his first voyage, becoming the first European to reach India by sea. 1538: Spanish conquistador of Chile and ...

Jesus looked intently at Peter for a moment and then said, "You are Simon, John's son - but you shall be called Peter, the rock!" John 1:42 Some Christians deny that the Pope, as successor of St ...