South of Hamburg's city center is the Harbour neighborhood (or Historic Hamburg), a district that rests on the northern banks of the River Elbe and greets sailors aboard the thousands of ships ...

Wajsbrot demands the full attention of her reader as she plays with form, ideas and writing in this novel about an unnamed protagonist arriving in Dresden to translate Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lightho ...

Rare medieval documents, historical maps, and even gold and pearls retrieved from the river. The Vltava’s historical and cultural importance is unparalleled. Flowing 430 kilometers from its source in ...

Lili Elbe – born Einar Wegener – was a Danish landscape painter of the early 20th century and the first known transgender woman in arts. The Danish landscape artist Lili Elvenes (1882-1931), born ...

The bridge had partially collapsed into the Elbe river last September. Part of downtown Dresden in eastern Germany was evacuated on Thursday morning as bomb disposal units prepared to remove a ...

The bomb was discovered under the bridge in the Elbe river on Wednesday morning, a police spokesman said. The next steps will be decided by the ordnance experts, he said, adding that if the bomb ...

St. Pauli Elbe Tunnel) is a pedestrian, bike and motorist tunnel (though cars are not permitted), which travels underneath the River Elbe. It connects central Hamburg to the southern side of the ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

Best known for its amenity-packed mega-ships, Celebrity Cruises plans to launch 10 river vessels, with the first operating in ...

From VIP after-hours tours to personal butlers trained at Buckingham Palace standards, here are the best Danube river cruises for 2025. Founded in 1997, Viking River Cruises was designed for ...