along the North Sea. Ostend started as a small fishing village in the Middle Ages but grew into an important harbor town by the 17th century. Ostend has been conquered and destroyed numerous times, throughout the ages, basically due to its strategic location, from rebel forces to foreign armi...
including Prince William and Kate Middleton, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Grace of Monaco, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan, as well as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, who met here in 1943 and 1944 for two wartime conferences.
Visitors to the impressive palace of the Prince-Bishops, in the city of Wurzburg, can see the world's largest ceiling painting. This palace and the Court Gardens are listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The Old Town at Bamberg on the Main is another World Heritage Site, with more...