Ahead of the UK’s first major monographic exhibition on the 17th-century painter Francisco de Zurbarán at the National Gallery, Michael Hodges visits southern Spain to discover the artist’s Baroque ma ...

A historic village that's only 30 minutes from Darlington has long charmed travellers with its "scenic beauty" and "timeless ...

The General Chapter of the Carthusian Order is meeting this month at the Grande Chartreuse in France to deliberate, among other matters, on the approval of modifications to the Carthusian Rite that ...

When I mentioned the other day that boarding fees at England’s Winchester College are “£20,000” (nearly €23,000), I should probably, as reader Angela Murray points out, have added “per term”. If you ...

When he was only 13, Thomas Verner Moore knew what he wanted to be—a hermit. The son of a Louisville insurance man, young Tom Moore had had his imagination fired by a book on the so-called Desert ...

As far as cocktail names go, “Green Hot” leaves a bit to be desired—it sounds to me like a gorilla trying to understand a serrano pepper, and while it’s certainly not the least appetizing ...

Reading a book is a solitary act. Watching a movie may be as well. But combining them, as Kathleen Norris and Gareth Higgins do in A Whole Life in Twelve Movies: A Cinematic Journey to a Deeper ...

The National Trust will take over the running of a Grade I listed former monastery. The Charterhouse in Coventry will be the trust's first site in the city, after it came to an agreement with the ...

InvestigationConcentrating on just a few major projects, the French government is unable to cope with the huge investment required to maintain thousands of sites owned by small communities and ...

Meeting the global demand for their historic herbal liqueur got to be too much for the Carthusian monks who have worked and prayed silently in the Alps north of Grenoble, France for centuries. Earlier ...

Learn how to harness the powers of these beloved herbal liqueurs. Brian Freedman is a wine, spirits, travel, and food writer; event host and speaker; and drinks educator. He regularly contributes to ...