The surviving Portuguese buildings include the cistern and the Church of the Assumption, built in the Manueline style of late Gothic architecture. The Portuguese City of Mazagan - one of the early ...

On the sidelines of a global news forum, journalists explored the sights in Istanbul, a land both locked in time and buoyed ...

Deep beneath a quiet suburb north of Tokyo lies a massive concrete structure few people know exists. With its towering ...

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If you’re trying to get to the other side of the world, it’s hard to avoid long flights. But there are some other options.

Here’s how it works. When Luc Tuymans was invited to temporarily replace two paintings by Renaissance master Jacopo Tintoretto at Venice’s San Giorgio Maggiore Basilica, the Belgian artist agreed on ...

A diocesan shrine in Marikina City is the first minor basilica declared in the Philippines under the papacy of Pope Leo XIV, according to the Vatican on Tuesday. In a CBCP News report, the elevation ...

Often compared to Istanbul’s ancient Basilica Cistern, the facility has reportedly prevented more than USD 1 billion in flood-related damage ever since it became operational, according to Japan ...

A narrow trail hugging the hillside leads me to an opening in the slope, where I enter an enormous cistern now part of a route to the summit, more than 300 feet above the surrounding countryside.

Officially known as the Metropolitan Outer Area Underground Discharge Channel, the facility is visually reminiscent of Istanbul’s ancient underground Basilica Cistern water reservoir.

The facility north of Tokyo in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, is visually reminiscent of Istanbul's ancient underground Basilica Cistern water reservoir. Its unique atmosphere has made it a popular ...

We tick off many of the city’s big-ticket attractions, including the arresting six-minareted Blue Mosque, the subterranean Basilica Cistern (a spectacular Roman reservoir that’s now an ...