“Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, ...

If quaint towns with breathtaking scenery along with a dash of tradition is on your mind then the cuckoo clock land tucked in the renowned Black Forest region of Germany is a must visit destination ...

Yes, clock. One of the world's most interesting bird families is tied to my grandmother's mantelpiece. If German clockmakers in the early 18th century had been successful in their first desire — a ...

As the German UNESCO Commission reports on its website, while watchmaking has been on a national list since 2021, the ...

In the the world’s largest cuckoo clock, found in Triberg, Germany, the cuckoo bird alone is 14 feet long and weighs 330 pounds. The whole thing is based on a much smaller cuckoo clock that is about ...

In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to see the wooden cuckoo at Edinburgh's famous floral clock. But much to his horror, when they got ...