Photos of an exposed ancient monastery in Spain highlight just how critical the country’s drought has become. The Sant Salvador de la Vedella Benedictine monastery in Catalonia, Spain, was built in ...

Last month, the Spanish Supreme Court ordered the return of one of Spain’s great medieval treasures, the Sijena Murals, to their original monastery after nearly a century at the National Art Museum of ...

The region of Catalonia, in northeast Spain, is best known for its capital, Barcelona, and the rugged coastline of its Costa Brava. But Catalonia offers an entirely different world in the Pyrenees ...

The Royal Palace of Madrid is the king’s official residence and Western Europe’s largest palace with over 3,400 rooms. The palace itself dates to the 18 th century, though it occupies the land of the ...

After more than a decade of legal battles, Spain's Supreme Court has ruled that a set of 13th-century Romanesque murals-removed from the Sijena Monastery during the Spanish Civil War and housed since ...

The Monastery of Santa Maria de Sijena, in Villanueva de Sijena, Spain, in 2010. ECELAN/GNU FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENSE After 11 years of complaints, appeals and back-and-forth between various courts, ...

Rising high on a hill overlooking this small southern Indiana town, the castle-like Monastery of Immaculate Conception with its turrets and towers could well be a stop on a European tour of historic ...

At the top of a summit, next to a bend in the River Ter, or among meadows with spectacular panoramic views, you can find examples of Romanesque buildings with austere beauty and a long history. And ...