We recently spent a few weeks in Otranto, the easternmost city of Italy’s mainland whose geographical situation—close to the Balkan peninsula—has shaped much of...
Bari has a wonderful, recently renovated museum devoted to ancient archeological finds on the Salentine peninsula (the heel of Italy’s ‘boot’). While it’s much...
Tunisia is a sweet place to visit, not least because of the evocative Roman ruins overlaying tantalizing traces of the even more ancient Carthaginian...
"By the 1860s, only Niagara Falls was drawing more visitors annually than Green-Wood. Twenty years before Central Park, the cemetery was effectively New York's...
