The black spider
In Vienna’s 1st district, Innere Stadt, on Coburgbastei street, stands the late-classical Palais Coburg, completed in 1845, during the renovation of which fragments of the Vienna city wall were uncovered.…
Read moreIn Vienna’s 1st district, Innere Stadt, on Coburgbastei street, stands the late-classical Palais Coburg, completed in 1845, during the renovation of which fragments of the Vienna city wall were uncovered.…
Read moreThe Middle Ages were characterized by mighty castles, brave knights with fair princesses, bloody crusades, and the darkest chapter in European history: the witch hunts. This cruel past, in which…
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Who isn’t familiar with the famous saying, “Don’t paint the devil on the wall”? This expression is said to have originated in Vienna and came about as follows. In the…
Read moreThere are still three preserved medieval city gates in Munich, and one of them is the Sendlinger Tor. This southern city gate is located in the Hackenviertel district and separates…
Read moreOff the north coast of Scotland, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, lies the Orkney archipelago, consisting of almost 70 small islands and the largest island, Mainland,…
Read moreTrier, Germany’s oldest city, idyllically situated on the Moselle River, was once the largest Roman city north of the Alps. Under the name Augusta Treverorum, it was the imperial residence…
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