Daily Medieval

One of the famous sites in Florence, Italy, is the Ponte Vecchio, the bridge over the River Arno. Ponte Vecchio means "old bridge,"...

Tornadoes usually form when masses of warm, moist air and higher altitude cooler air meet. The cooler air descends, the warm air ascends, an...

Aleppo in Syria ranks with some of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. There is evidence that people lived in that loca...

According to legend, a rich widow named Berta di Bernardo left 60 coins in her will for the construction of a campanile , a bell tower, for ...