There’s a certain romance to train travel in southern Germany – a gentle unfolding of landscapes where vineyard-clad hills, medieval spires and storybook towns drift past your window like scenes from a film. While I’ve explored much of this region on previous trips, my recent 8-day rail journey
Nine villages in southern Italy known as La Grecia Salentina have maintained aspects of the Greek language and culture for centuries. Image: School kids at a village of Grecia Salentina holding Greek and Italian flags. Credit: Facebook/Greek Presidency Nine villages in southern Italy collectively
Looking for the good life in southern France, my husband and I first travelled from Seattle, Washington to Gascony in May 2006 with a couple of friends, hoping to find a house we might purchase together. All of us loved the rural French countryside. We rented a two-bedroom stone cottage in a small
Southern Asia offers a complete mix of culture, nature, food, and warm hospitality. Travelers who are visiting the region for the first time will discover lively markets, old temples, wide coasts, plus a pace that feels unlike anything elsewhere for most visitors. The region surprises visitors with
Masks were central to theater performances in ancient Greece. Credit: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0 Archaeologists in southern Turkey have uncovered five new Roman-era theatrical masks, adding fresh insight into cultural life in the ancient Greek city of Hieropolis (also known as Castabala). The
This summer, the Italian archaeologist Tiziana D’Angelo had a lot on her plate. As the director of the Parchi archeologici di Paestum e Velia, the dual archaeological sites that lie south of Italy’s Amalfi Coast, D’Angelo had begun overseeing the long-planned excavation of a recently discovered
