Straddling the River Main not long before it converges with the Rhine, FRANKFURT AM MAIN is the capital city Germany has never actually had, having been cheated on more than one occasion of the role to which its history and central...
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A classic example of an eighteenth-century planned town, INVERARAY was built on the site of a ruined fishing village in 1745 by the third Duke of Argyll, head of the powerful Campbell clan, in order to distance his newly rebuilt castle from...
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COGOLIN , the town just south of Grimaud, is remarkable for its combination of tourism with traditional craft manufacturing - of reeds for wind instruments, pipes for smoking, wrought-iron furniture, silk yarn and knotted wool carpets. These are all...
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