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One of the finest examples of Hungarian Art Nouveau architecture, the Gresham Palace in Budapest, built in 1906, reopened last month as a Four Seasons luxury hotel. Named for Sir […]

Athens embarked on a herculean task when it successfully bid to bring the Olympic Summer Games back to home turf. The municipal projects were so numerous, and so wildly ambitious, […]

Through December, France is honoring Polish culture with concerts, plays, exhibitions, film festivals and street fairs. 'Nova Polska' exhibitions in Paris include a retrospective of religious and allegorical works by […]

The Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, where 200,000 people were imprisoned between 1936 and 1945, recently opened a visitors' center and historical museum. Sachsenhausen, 20 miles north of Berlin, […]

France and its World War II allies will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings this spring and summer. The occasion may be the last major D-Day tribute that […]

The Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche in German), a Protestant church constructed in Dresden under the rule of the Catholic Dukes of Saxony, symbolized 18th-century religious tolerance. The bell-shaped dome […]

Through July 25, an eclectic Parisian exhibition, 'Poupees,' deliberately blurs the distinction between sculpture and toys, high fashion and voodoo fetish objects. The dark, cavernous ground floor of the Halle […]

Lille, designated as one of 2004's European Cities of Culture (Genoa is the other), is living up to this honor with blockbuster exhibitions, a nonstop performance program and art installations […]

France's 'Year of China' cultural exchange brightens the Parisian winter with a continuing series of exhibitions and other events, including a Chinese New Year parade down the Champs-Elysees Jan. 24. […]

Every fall, France adopts a new theme for the winter's cultural focus. This year's Annee de la Chine, inaugurated tomorrow, promises to be the most extravagant and eclectic so far. […]

The German Historical Museum in Berlin has opened a new wing designed by I.M. Pei. The extension, which took four years to complete, will provide an additional 27,000 square feet […]

The shaded sidewalks of the Champs-Elysees in Paris are lined with 32 antique and ultramodern trains through June 15 in a free, open-air exhibition, 'Le Train Capitale.' The exhibit, organized […]

Brussels honors the memory of a favorite son, the singer and songwriter Jacques Brel on the 25th anniversary of his death at age 49, with a yearlong series of exhibitions […]

Geneva is a gateway to the Alpine ski slopes, but it is also known for other winter sports -- like extreme swimming. On Dec. 15, 600 swimmers from around the […]

Copenhagen has opened the first stage of its automated subway system. The first 11 stations of the system, the Metro, are on a line stretching 6.8 miles from Norreport, west […]

Victor Hugo was born in the Franche-Comte region of eastern France. This fall his hometown of Besancon celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth with a 19th-century-style street carnival and […]

In June 1948, Stalin cut off all ground traffic into West Berlin. From June until September 1949, the Berlin airlift ferried food and coal into the beleaguered city. This chapter […]

The world's most glamorous trade show, the 55th Festival de Cannes, takes over the Riviera resort town from May 15 to 26. Movie stars throw kisses to the crowds from […]

Expect more than tulips when the premier garden exhibition in the Netherlands, Floriade 2002, opens on Saturday on the Haarlemmermeer polder three miles west of Amsterdam's airport. This lavish horticultural […]

The wine-producing village of Rasteau, 25 miles north of Avignon, will hold its third annual 'Escapade des Gourmets' hike on May 12. All the training anyone needs for this relaxing […]

Sixty years ago, Nazi officials convened in a villa at the Wannsee in Berlin to discuss 'a final solution to the Jewish question.' The ensuing Holocaust is the subject of […]

The original casting of Auguste Rodin's monumental bronze 'The Burghers of Calais,' damaged by salt air and pollution, was removed from its pedestal in front of Calais City Hall last […]

The Four Seasons Prague, which opened last month overlooking the Charles Bridge and the Prague Castle, marries a 21st-century building and modern technology with three classic structures from the 18th […]

Train travelers heading south from Paris will notice major construction work in many stations as the ambitious TGV Mediterranee rail project nears its scheduled completion on June 10. This 12-year […]

With legal prostitution in the famed Red Light District and marijuana sold openly in the so-called coffee-shops, Amsterdam lives up to its reputation as a freewheeling pleasure capital. Amsterdam is […]

Amid its human-scale skyline, century-old cafes, pedestrian streets and lush gardens, Copenhagen still finds room for contradictions. That's to be expected from a city that nurtured both Hans Christian Andersen […]