Sturdy Lisbon Cathedral is perhaps more imposing than your average medieval religious site. With very few windows, it resembles a fortress nearly as much as a cathedral. This 1147 building survived ...

Since the 13th century, artists have been reinventing the art form that covers churches, palaces and train stations Dena Levitz From a few steps back, the artfully painted panorama of Lisbon at the ...

Jacqueline Drayer is an architectural historian and urban planner who has worked and lived on three continents. She is the founder and principal of Mulberry History Advisors. Plan Ahead: Hop on the ...

It has been eight centuries, to the year, since Pope Honorius III issued an edict to raise money for a new cathedral in the city of Metz. And while it would be years before the first stone was laid, ...

To be listed as UNESCO World Heritage requires special care and protection of valuable cultural monuments and pieces of Art from threats such as biodeterioration caused by microcolonial black fungi.

Getting Porto, Portugal Porto is a city that is pretty easy to get to. It essentially comes down to whether Porto is one of your beginning stops, middle stops, or end stops while visiting Portugal, ...

A peculiar fungus was retrieved from an artwork in the Old Cathedral of Coimbra, Portugal during a multi-disciplinary scientific survey. The organism was found to belong to the group of microcolonial ...