Imagine that you are a merchant in 17th-century Mexico. With bated breath, you stand at the harbor of Acapulco, eagerly ...

Europe's royal palaces are not only architectural wonders but play an important role in the culture and history of their ...

The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...

A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

Kingdoms are a fascinating thing to study. For most of human history, people gathered around kingdoms to provide protection ...

Past the age of silent films, Spain became a popular filming destination for capturing the backdrops of Hollywood productions and Westerns like ‘A Fistful of Dollars’ and ‘Lawrence of Arabia.’ After ...

An extraordinary testimony of civilian resistance, forcibly silenced for decades during Franco’s dictatorship, the network of 1,322 underground air-raid shelters still lives under the streets of ...

File photo: Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, holding a staff. Details of how six top Yoruba monarchs prevailed upon nonagenarian legal luminary Afe Babalola to drop his criminal defamation suit ...

The city is known for its baroque streetscapes, imperial palaces ... of the headquarters of an Austrian Hungarian Monarchy Bank, right in the heart of The Golden Quarter. Everything from The Opera to ...

Last week Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced several measures, including a 100 percent tax on the value of homes bought by foreigners, to tackle the country’s housing crisis.

Spanish Imperial Eagle, one of the world's most localised raptor species, has enjoyed a population increase across its Iberian Peninsula range. The eagle is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List ...