The palazzo assumed a new range of roles, including as the French consulate’s HQ, which housed the famous ‘red line’: the Cold War telephone hotline between Moscow and Washington, designed ...

A doorway cut with great precision into the face of a rocky mountain in Peru may be one of the world's greatest mysteries. Measuring 23 feet tall and 22ft wide, Aramu Muru has puzzled ...

Swiss sculptor Urs Fischer, the subject of the Palazzo Grassi's monograph "Mostra: MADAME FISSCHER" exhibition, is a man used to flying by the seat of his pants and pushing things right up to ...

A number of stunning entries to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition have been released, including images of an Iberian lynx framed in a doorway, cheetahs swimming in a raging river ...

The doorway is carved into red sandstone, which is a softer material than granite. This enabled ancient people to carve out the structure just with simple tools at the time like stone, bone, and wood.