Framed by wild moorland, the West Yorkshire town mixes bracing walks with welcoming pubs in an elegant Victorian setting ...

From the Sistine Chapel to St Peter's Square, locations in the Vatican where the new pope's election will play out in the ...

In centuries past, the cardinals slept in corridors and rooms of the Apostolic Palace itself during the conclave ...

An excellent way to link these sights is by bicycle; rent a CitiBike and follow the curvy, paved promenade from leafy Lummus Park, up Ocean Drive, past the hot-pink lifeguard huts, to the best beach ...

Wells might fly under the radar compared with neighbouring Bath, but this magnificent little ... In Wells, the White Hart is a central 15th-century inn with doubles from £65 and one accessible ...

Built in the 15th century, the palazzo opened ... walls and remnants of what is believed to be a Roman tower. Traces of an early 16th-century fresco adorn the courtyard as does a funerary stele ...

Terrazzo, with origins dating back to the 15th ... in Roman and Byzantine architecture, where copper and lead sheets were used for durability and weather resistance. During the 19th century ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a Roman mosaic and an almost intact cistern in the ancient Greek city of Syedra.