heady days when the city served as the capital of the then Holy Roman Empire. The influx of tourism since the fall of communism in 1989 lent a much needed jolt of electricity, helping to create ...

Italy is auctioning off a vast 16th-century castle built for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ... a key thoroughfare since the Roman Empire, and of two city gates – one leading north to Rome ...

In his new book The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency, which forms the basis of this event, Oliver Volckart analyses why the vast majority of the approximate 300 members of ...

In the centuries that followed, the Roman Empire split in two, the Eternal City was decimated by disease and a series of invasions, which propelled a shift toward western European ancestry. Later, the ...