Rothenburg is still Germany's best-preserved walled town. In the Middle Ages, Rothenburg was Germany's second-largest city with a population of 6,000. Rolf Richardson / Alamy Twenty-five years ago, I ...

If you have been dreaming of a vacation that is so serene and feels like you are walking through the set of a historical romance, listen up. Tucked away in the Harz region of central Germany, ...

Snow can truly change the landscape of any place. Draped in white, houses, fields, and mountains can look truly magical. That atmosphere can be found in several locations across Europe. You have the ...

If you’re wondering if the Rothenburg Torture Museum, or more correctly the Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum is appropriate for kids, let me tell you about the time I became “that parent.” When we ...

Work in Germany reveals enormous foundations of a medieval monastery hidden beneath Borken, surprising archaeologists.

Texts versus images: female spirituality from an art historian's perspective -- Art, enclosure, and the pastoral care of nuns -- The visual and the visionary: the image in late medieval monastic ...

Archaeologists have discovered a medieval underground tunnel running beneath a German village, which was the likely site of cult rituals. Researchers stumbled upon the tunnel during excavations that ...