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 ...