Last month, the Spanish Supreme Court ordered the return of one of Spain’s great medieval treasures, the Sijena Murals, to their original monastery after nearly a century at the National Art Museum of ...

Of the hundreds of thousands of worshipers and sightseers who have entered the Cathedral of St.-Lazare in Autun, on a hill 150 miles southeast of Paris, probably only a handful have seen or pondered ...

PARIS — Coming upon a remote Romanesque church from almost 1,000 years ago is one of the pleasures of traveling through the countryside of Europe. But these structures, put up when the tribes that had ...

One of the most spectacular surviving masterpieces of Romanesque art, the Sijena murals have long been a prominent emblem of Spanish heritage. Now, however, a long-running battle over their ...

Severely damaged during the Second World War and closed to the public for more than 70 years, the Romanesque Hall at the heart of Budapest’s Szepmuveszeti Muzeum (Museum of Fine Arts) will be a ...

AFTER the Moslem surge exploded out of Arabia in the 7th century and swept westward until it had engulfed Spain, one of the first areas to be liberated (by Charlemagne in 788) was Catalonia. There, in ...

In the province of Palencia, you can find one of the largest concentrations of Romanesque monuments in Europe. So, more than just a route, it is a great network of routes that seem to have no end due ...

The Monastery of Santa Maria de Sijena, in Villanueva de Sijena, Spain, in 2010. ECELAN/GNU FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENSE After 11 years of complaints, appeals and back-and-forth between various courts, ...