Dreaming of an escapade to Venice but the surging crowds and crazy prices keep putting you off? Well, maybe you slept through it in school, but did you know Venice was, at one point in time, one of the most powerful countries in the Mediterranean? Including not only the city of Venice itself, located in …

From an overlooked cultural gem to a world-famous summer destination in only a small number of years, Dubrovnik is the city that best represents Croatia internationally right now: It’s become synonymous with ‘King’s Landing’ among Game of Thrones fans, and it seems to be on every Europe-bound traveler’s bucket list lately… result? The biggest crowds …

Very few countries have had such a successful trajectory in recent decades as Croatia has. Previously a part of Yugoslavia, a communist-leaning federation that also comprised Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a number of other South Slavic states in Southeastern Europe, it re-emerged from this dark era a more open, incredibly Westernized state. Year …