Byzantine, Renaissance and Mexican architectural styles and complete in 1797, this active Roman Catholic Church is a National Historic Landmark. The exterior features white stucco, while the ...

In “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” time paradoxically stands still and rushes forward.

During the next century, Christians perished in China completely. With the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, China once again ...

From Istanbul's Blue Mosque to Paris’s Notre Dame, religious monuments have awed and amazed the masses for thousands of ...

Aegean beaches, ancient Greek and Roman cities, hot air ballooning over ... a 1,500-year-old Byzantine citadel. And if you believe the ancient legends, the cliffs and offshore rocks near Riva ...

Together with his Florentine rival Giotto, Duccio is the artist who finally put the golden flatness of late Byzantine portraiture ... decapitated by order of the Roman emperor Diocletian—is ...

Its architecture is a mesmerizing blend of ancient Byzantine, Ottoman ... Inside, visitors can admire stunning frescoes and climb to the top of the dome for breathtaking views of #Florence.

This area holds a significant place in history, as it was once the city of Constantinople, the center of the Roman ... a Byzantine Greek orthodox church filled with mosaics and frescoes.

The Monastery of Latomos is characterized as one of the most important religious monuments in Thessaloniki; the unique early Christian mosaic decoration and the Byzantine frescoes adorning ... she ...

Serdica Roman ruins (1-6th C.) in downtown Sofia ... the Cyrillic alphabet was created here during the First Bulgarian Empire ...