Baroque castles, incredible porcelain artistry, and magnificent symphonies star in this stunning tour through eastern Germany ...

Archaeologists digging up the filled-in moat of Sparrenburg Castle uncovered a forgotten staircase, possibly leading to an unknown cellar. Screengrab from YouTube video shared by BielefeldJETZT ...

Often perched on a high hill or near the shore of some scenic waterway, castles have been given a magical allure throughout ...

A small cache of medieval game pieces has been discovered in the ruins of a recently discovered castle in southern Germany. The finds provide a window into leisure time, possibly among actual knights, ...

As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls ...

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Situated on a forested hilltop in northern Germany, Sparrenburg Castle has towered overthe surrounding city for over 700 years. But, as archaeologists were recently reminded, even such a prominent ...

(CNN) — In our travel roundup this week: the Japanese city firebombed by the US just hours before the end of World War II, the mysterious origins of the world’s only non-rectangular national flag, ...