Putizza, a traditional dessert from Friuli Venezia Giulia, is a symbol of the holidays, with a soft dough and a rich filling ...

It was also where Habsburg women prayed for their descendants after childbirth. Maria Theresa of Austria even placed the weight of her youngest son Maximilian Francis in gold on the altar there. Until ...

The Renaissance came later to Prague than to Venice, Flanders, or Rome. But it was no less transformative when it did. In the 16th century Prague became a place where empires converged and cultures ...

A Habsburg, in his teens in 1516 he inherited Spain, which had been united by his grandparents Ferdinand and Isabella. In 1519 he succeded his paternal grandfather Maximilian I as Holy Roman Emperor.