Madrid in five places

To the casual observer, the Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul looks rather like the work of Antoni Gaudí, the great Catalan architect best known for his Sagrada Família basilica, still under c

As we are ramshackle ramblers, Dieppe distracts us from our art tour of southwest France’s Languedoc-Roussillon. As if that’s not enough, we then border-hop between Catalonia and France, before detour

Alice Loxton EleanorA 200-mile walk in search of England’slost queen352pp. Pan Macmillan. £22. Many are commemorated in stone, but few so grandly as Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290). Following her unexpec

The history of Mexico is epic. There are the Maya and the Aztecs; the meeting of two continents, with Moctezuma and Cortés; a cry for independence led by a priest-turned-general; the loss of more than

The historian, author and former director of planning and development at English Heritage tells Anne Cuthbertson about his life and work in the capital

Interior designers, Brett and Anthony Calvert-Harrison love nothing more than wandering around castles and stately homes, soaking up the history and admiring the interior architecture. When they made