
Like most European cities and towns, Lisbon, Portugal has narrow, cobbled streets. But unique from, say Amsterdam or Paris, Lisbon’s narrow, Lisbon’s topography includes hills on par with San Francisco’s. The Bairro Alto neighborhood expanded from the original city center in the second half of the 15th century in response to the social and economic growth […]

After visiting the Milan Cathedral, we wandered through the busy, graffitied streets of Milan, Italy and stumbled upon the remains of a Romanesque church built in the 5th Century. All but this partial portion of a wall was demolished in 1949 in order to accommodate a growing city and additional roads. On Today’s Date in […]