Category Archives: Military

Vasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

The Vasa Museum is a Swedish state museum at Galärvarvet on Södra Djurgården in Stockholm. Since 15 June 1990, the museum has housed the royal ship Vaasa, is part of the State’s Maritime and Transport History Museums, and is located within the Royal National City Park. The Vasa Museum is…

Vasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Travel Guide of Mantua, Lombardy, Italy

Mantua is a world heritage listed city in Lombardy, Italy. Because of the power and influence of the Gonzaga family, which used to own the city for over 400 years, Mantua was considered one of the most important cultural cities in the Renaissance and it still maintains a lot of…

Travel Guide of Mantua, Lombardy, Italy

Travel Guide of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

Friuli Venezia Giulia is one of the 20 regions of Italy, occupies the north-east corner of Italy, just to the east of Venice-Veneto and bordering Slovenia and Austria with the Adriatic Sea along the southern coast. A natural opening to the sea for many Central European countries, the region is…

Travel Guide of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

Besalú, Garrotxa, Catalonia, Spain

Besalú is a town and municipality in the county of La Garrotxa, in the counties of Girona. Built on top of the hill where the remains of the canonry of Santa Maria are, there was the count’s castle. The monumental importance of Besalú is given fundamentally by its great value…

Besalú, Garrotxa, Catalonia, Spain

Gran Bosco di Salbertrand Natural Park, Metropolitan city of Turin, Piedmont, Italy

The Gran Bosco di Salbertrand natural park is a protected natural area in Piedmont that extends to the right of the Val di Susa. It extends on the right of the Val di Susa (Northern Cozie Alps), from 1000 meters above sea level to 2600 meters of the watershed. It…

Gran Bosco di Salbertrand Natural Park, Metropolitan city of Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Pinerolo, Metropolitan city of Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Pinerolo is an Italian town in the metropolitan city of Turin, in Piedmont. It was the capital of the district of the same name. The majestic setting of the Alps, the luxuriant nature of the Pinerolese Valleys, the fascinating history of its past, the food and wine goodness of its…

Pinerolo, Metropolitan city of Turin, Piedmont, Italy

The Napoleon Route, From Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur to Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

The Route Napoléon is the route taken by Napoléon in 1815 on his return from Elba. It is now concurrent with sections of routes N85, D1085, D4085, and D6085. The route begins at Golfe-Juan, where Napoleon disembarked 1 March 1815, beginning the Hundred Days that ended at Waterloo. The road…

The Napoleon Route, From Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur to Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Ripaille Castle, Thonon-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

The castle of Ripaille is a former mansion of the late xiii th century or the beginning of the xiv th century that stands in the town of Thonon-les-Bains a French commune in the department of Haute-Savoie in the region Auvergne- Rhône-Alpes. By its grandeur, its charm, its memories, Chateau…

Ripaille Castle, Thonon-les-Bains, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France

The Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM) is an art museum located in the village of Mougins, in the Alpes-Maritimes region of France. It is 30 minutes from Nice airport and 15 minutes from the centre of Cannes. The museum has won several international awards and has loaned dozens of…

Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France

Fort Saint-Jean, Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean

Fort Saint-Jean is a fortification in Marseille, built in 1660 by Louis XIV at the entrance to the Old Port. Since 2013 it has been linked by two foot-bridges to the historical district Le Panier and to the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations; the latter being the first French…

Fort Saint-Jean, Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean

Coastline and Port in Toulon, French Riviera

Toulon is an important centre for naval construction, fishing, wine making, and the manufacture of aeronautical equipment, armaments, maps, paper, tobacco, printing, shoes, and electronic equipment. The military port of Toulon is the major naval centre on France’s Mediterranean coast, home of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and…

Coastline and Port in Toulon, French Riviera

Luigi Marzoli Museum of Weapons, Brescia, Italy

The Luigi Marzoli Arms Museum, located in the Mastonte Visconteo of Brescia Castle, displays collections of ancient European weapons. The keep – one of the oldest portions of the castle, built by the Visconti in the fourteenth century, and an imposing part of Cidneo Hill’s surviving fortifications – houses the…

Luigi Marzoli Museum of Weapons, Brescia, Italy

Brescia Castle, Italy

The castle of Brescia is a medieval fortress perched on Cidneo, near the historic city of Brescia. The castle stands on Cidneo Hill, which constitutes an important park area within the city. It is one of the most interesting fortified complexes in Italy, in which signs of the various periods…

Brescia Castle, Italy

Orsini-Odescalchi Castle, Bracciano, Italy

Castello Orsini-Odescalchi is a castle in Bracciano, in the Province of Rome, Lazio, Italy. It is located on the southern shore of Lake Bracciano. It was built in the 15th century, and combines the functions of a military defence structure and a civilian residence of the feudal lords of the…

Orsini-Odescalchi Castle, Bracciano, Italy

Carlo Magno goes to War, Madama Palace

The exhibition Charlemagne goes to war, set up in the Medieval Court of Palazzo Madama, presents for the first time in Italy the extremely rare cycle of medieval paintings of the Castle of Cruet (Val d’Isère, France), a unique testimony of 14th century painting in Savoy. The cycle represents episodes…

Carlo Magno goes to War, Madama Palace

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