The rolling green hills of Tivoli had been a popular summertime escape since Roman times when Ippolito d’Este decided to erect his villa there in 1550. D’Este had recently suffered his first of five ...
River flooding forced the temporary closure of the famous grotto at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France. The shrine complex remained open to visitors. A morning Mass, however, was ...
Their boats would moor at the bottom of his Thames-side garden, and then, dressed in wide-skirted gowns made of Indian calico, the fashionable ladies of early 18th-century London would come calling on ...