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Latest exploration stories about Europe
A simple drinking fountain reveals how water shaped Rome—from ancient aqueducts to a modern ritual hidden in plain sight.
After architecture lost its soul to the rigid lines of 20th-century modernism, an artist named Friedensreich Hundertwasser fought to reclaim it, using the flowing geometries of nature.
A series of rock-cut chambers, carved into the cliffs of the Mönchsberg above St. Peter’s Abbey, tell dark stories of martyrdom.
