This German destination may be a heavily trafficked medieval tourist trap, but Rick Steves still loves to visit despite the ...

There are tens of thousands of castles in Germany. Here are ten of our favorites that you can visit—or maybe even book as ...

Germany isn’t just the land of fairy tales, it’s where they were born. Between misty forests and rolling hills, real castles ...

Sailing solo through Germany’s storybook towns felt like stepping into a living fairytale—no rental car, no repacking—just castles, cathedrals and cobbled streets unfolding beyond my cabin window. The ...

As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany's Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls ...

Texts versus images: female spirituality from an art historian's perspective -- Art, enclosure, and the pastoral care of nuns -- The visual and the visionary: the image in late medieval monastic ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...