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 ...

Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier, rounder ...

People and wealth moved along the pilgrimage routes of Europe, sparking the building of Romanesque churches to welcome travelers and house holy relics. The eight-sided bell tower of the Basilica of ...

During his general audience on Nov. 18, Pope Benedict XVI explained how Christian faith in the Middle Ages inspired some of the greatest works of art of all time: the cathedrals of Europe. Dear ...

The time machine drops you onto the dusty streets of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. The year is 1211. A few hundred yards ahead is a Romanesque cathedral, nearly complete after 100 ...

Why did Christians start building cathedrals reaching to the sky 1000 years ago? Was it to demonstrate earthly power, or an attempt to be close to God? The resulting architecture still fascinates us ...

The Camino de Santiago requires time, stamina, and sacrifice, but ask any pilgrim who’s finished: most of us would return to that road without hesitation. The Camino de Santiago, or Way of Saint James ...

HOVEN | The year was 1917, and an ambitious Bavarian priest by the name of Anthony Helmbrecht asked the citizens of Hoven to band together. The third and most recent church in the area had just fallen ...

In a computer lab at UCLA, the worlds of cyberspace and Medieval Europe merge. A large group of computer engineers, scholars, students and other experts at UCLA have built a virtual cathedral -- a ...

A historic Portuguese cathedral is being 'eaten' by fungi, researchers have discovered. Researchers say the 8-century-old cathedral Sé Velha de Coimbra (Old Cathedral of Coimbra), which is the only ...