Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier ...

Amiens Cathedral, in the heart of Picardy, is one of the largest 'classic' Gothic churches of the 13th century. It is notable for the coherence of its plan, the beauty of its three-tier interior ...

The Gothic aesthetic gained literary prominence in the 18th century with the emergence of Gothic fiction. Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764) is credited as the genre’s foundation ...

Gothic novels have been scaring us for 250 years. The mid-18th Century - an era of dark, satanic mills at home and nightmarish social upheaval abroad - saw public taste shift from traditional ...

A team of archaeologists has made a significant discovery in the municipality of Lesichovo, in the Pazardzhik region of ...