My first stop was at La Scala opera house, located at the end of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Scala Square. You’ll know you’re there by the large monument that was erected to honor Leonardo da Vinci. La Scala was built in 1778 by architect Giuseppe Piermanni on the former site of the church Santa Maria [...]

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When I first visited Krakow, I didn’t know what to expect. I knew that the city is one of the few Polish cities not destroyed during WWII and that the beautiful architecture of its buildings is some of the oldest in Poland. I also knew that Krakow has the largest medieval town square in all [...]

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In Greece, classical civilization threads all aspects of daily life. Broken Ionic columns lie in everyone’s backyard, and the bus maps are written in the language of the philosophers. But Crete, the largest island in Greece, has more than just a Platonic heritage. Crete was once the heart of the Minoan civilization, a Bronze Age matriarchy that ruled [...]

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There’s no better place in Turkey to light up the nargile (water pipe) and wile the hours away in an Ottoman than the cosy, coastal, hippy hamlet of Cirali (aka Olympos).
Perched in secluded mountain valleys fifty miles Southwest of Antalya, networks of makeshift, wooden tree shacks are the drawcard novelty of Olympos, providing a rustic and [...]

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When traveling around Franconia (Northern Bavaria), be sure to visit the impressive Schloss Seehof, located just five kilometers from Bamberg in Memmelsdorf. The Baroque structure was constructed in the late 17th Century as the summer residence and hunting lodge of the prince-bishop Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg. Four domed corner towers mark the symmetrical building. [...]

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