Around 800 years ago, a wealthy woman strolled through the streets of Kraków, Poland, an ornate gold ring glinting on her finger. Somehow, the ring eventually ended up buried in the basement of a ...

The Bavarian sculptor Veit Stoss created the vast altarpiece depicting the Dormition and Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary between 1477 and 1489. The Gothic altarpiece at St. Mary’s Basilica in ...

A remarkable centuries-old ring was unearthed recently beneath rubble at a historic castle in Eastern Europe. The impressive brass ring was found at Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow, Poland. The castle’s ...

KRAKOW, Poland -- Watching a fashionable young couple embrace by a towering Gothic church across the way, the English cafe patron sighed and, gently setting down her cup of cappuccino, turned to her ...

For anyone seeking culture, scenic streets, and lots of history, Krakow is worth exploring. This beautiful city in Poland is ...

Krakow, Poland is one of our favorite cities in Europe. Hauntingly beautiful with a solemn history and an incredible ...

Krakow’s historic center has survived a succession of wars and occupying powers with its architectural beauty intact. Today the old city’s cobblestone streets, majestic cathedrals, and imposing castle ...

An extremely rare medieval artifact has been discovered in the bowels of a castle in Poland. The artifact in question is a beautifully decorated gold ring, which researcher Jerzy Trzebiński found ...

KRAKÓW, POLAND—Notes from Poland reports that a gold ring thought to date to the eleventh or twelfth century has been discovered in the basement of one of the four residential towers at Wawel Royal ...

A new exhibition at Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków, southern Poland, brings together portraits by two masters of the Northern Renaissance - Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein the Younger. The exhibition ...

KRAKÓW, POLAND—Science in Poland reports that excavations at the site of a sixteenth-century wooden castle in a wetland in east-central Poland have uncovered the clay base of a masonry stove and tiles ...