For the best way to see medieval Europe, travel on the continent’s newest waterway. Completing a project of Charlemagne, King of the Franks, from 768-814 AD, the 326-mile-long Main river was linked to ...
A CONSTANTLY navigable waterway through the heart of Europe, from the North Sea to the Black Sea, is now being constructed. Twice before it has been attempted. More than a thousand years ago ...
Father to Reichsführer Adolf Hitler’s thoughts of Drang nach Osten was Charlemagne, who late in the 8th Century had his eye on the throne of the Byzantine Empire. Charlemagne planned an arterial ...