According to the World Population Review, France has the highest number of castles in 2025, 45,000. Second is Italy with less ...

Knowledge is power—and no knowledge was more assiduously coveted by European nations in the early 16th century ... Italy. Historical accounts differ as to how Cantino acquired the map.

An enduring myth, based on the writings of the 13th-century explorer Marco Polo, that pasta was brought to Italy from China, rose from a misinterpretation of a famous passage in Polo’s Travels.