To visit this spattering of 88 palm-fringed and thinly populated islands off the coast of West Africa is to enter both another world and another ... more

On Nov. 17, 20 years to the day since the start of the Velvet Revolution, a nonprofit group is organizing a re-enactment of the student ... more

Few hotels allow one to spend the night next to an architectural wonder of the ancient world. Fewer still are also architectural marvels themselves.

The dining scene has evolved to match the romantic allure of the city, with its battered cobblestones and crumbling 19th-century mansions.

Painters, dancers and the young and hip are clustering in this working-class neighborhood.

The Bucovina region in the far north wrote the scholar Silviu Sanie, is “one of those blessed realms where sacred and secular monuments have enriched ... more