Created around 1300, it is the largest surviving map from the Middle Ages and offers a glimpse into the mindset of the ancient Christian world. Located near the Welsh border on the River Wye ...

With its soaring, rocky peaks and mountain pastures, Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia is home to one of the most stunning sections of the Pyrenees. The area is bursting with year-round ...

The world's far ... more mountains like the Pyrenees. The 11,000-foot peaks separating France from Spain are laced with hundreds of miles of paved roads winding past medieval villages and ...

Completed in 1459, the Mappa Mundi is the compendium of all the geographical knowledge of the time and is arguably the greatest medieval map of the world. Almost twice as large as the famous ...

Pyrénées region in the south of France, between Toulouse and Carcassonne, lies a proud custodian of ancestral know-how and heritage. The community of Revel was conceived as a bastide, a denomination ...

A map of the Mediterranean world that was created in 1500 by a Jewish ... is the only example in America of the school of medieval Jewish map-makers which reached its peak on the Balearic Island ...