A few nights ago, on the first really cold night in Virginia, I walked past a woman on the streets of Alexandria who was ...

One such place is Bled, a picturesque village around a stunning lake in Slovenia where everything is picture-postcard-pretty.

And yet it was in the wake of this terrible slaughter that the young priest, Fr Joseph Mohr, wrote his poem Silent Night, which was to become a world-famous carol. Out of the darkness of those grim ...

Krampus is a complex figure associated with Christmas myth and folklore. He’s simultaneously a punishing enforcer of good ...

It includes St. Peter's Church, Friedhof St. Peter (a cemetery), the oldest library in Austria and the oldest ... If you have the Salzburg Card, admission to the catacombs is free.

Discover some of the oldest restaurants in the world, from revolutionary meeting places in the USA to Austria's first coffee ...

Since 2010, Trinity Community Choir has created a tradition of two concerts each year in Point Roberts—one at Christmas and ...

Christmas has become the dominant festival in the Western cultural calendar, but echoes of the pre-Christian past can still ...

Tyrone Schenk, who formed the group, said Krampus is a holdover from Germanic pagan beliefs and was paired with St. Nicholas ...

Joseph Mohr, a young Catholic priest at St Nicholas Church, Oberndorf bei Salzburg in Austria, was in despair: the organ at his church had been incapacitated by mice, and the chances of fixing the ...

Off the beaten track from some of the bigger resorts, it’s an ideal spot to get away from it all and enjoy a truly Alpine ...