Assisi is putting the bones of St. Francis on public display for the first time, and the town is bracing for a huge crush of pilgrims. Organizers say the monthlong viewing ends March 22.

Beneath southern Poland, the Wieliczka Salt Mine has transformed from a medieval industrial powerhouse into a surreal underground world of chapels, sculptures and salt-lined tunnels visitors can taste ...

From wildlife-watching in Romania to island-hopping in Greece these holidays will put a spring in your step over the coming ...

A high-altitude city in Uzbekistan with fortifications and iron workshops may match Marsmanda, revising Silk Road history.

More than 3,000 artworks from national museums were stowed in chateaus in the Lot—about 350 miles south of Paris ...

Grodziec Castle is a striking medieval fortress located in Lower Silesia, Poland, perched atop a wooded hill overlooking vast ...

Kraków, Warsaw, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Toruń, Wieliczka, Malbork, Białowieża, Masuria, Zakopane, Lublin, and Łódź—plus pacing, ...

A 12th-century manuscript looted during World War II has been returned to Poland from Yale University’s Beinecke Library, the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage announced Thursday. “This ...

Blending historic cities with ski resorts and deceptively good beaches, the country is fast becoming one of the Continent’s ...

Archaeologists working in the northwestern Polish town of Wolin, on the Baltic island of the same name, have discovered the remains of unusually built early medieval huts, hundreds of artifacts, and ...

Archaeologists recently retrieved early medieval weapons from a lake in Poland — relics believed to be connected to the country's first rulers. The Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica announced the ...

Jasło is a town in south-eastern Poland that is located in the heartland of the Doły (Pits). It was here that builders uncovered bones in 2013, and again during renovation work last year. A team of ...