Usually when your fort is overrun by the enemy, it is all over within a few minutes. Not at Fort

This is St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany. It was here that Johann Sebastian Bach was kapellmeister here for most

The city of Tabor was founded as a Christian community by the Hussites in Bohemia - modern day Czech Republic.

This is the house of Marco Polo -almost certainly the most celebrated resident of Venice. He traveled to China and

Although we may know Venice as a beautiful Italian city where travel is by gondolas, at one time Venice controlled

This is the Forum, the beating heart of Ancient Rome. It was an open square used for public meetings and

Lake Trasimene, where Hannibal hid his entire army in the hills, then surprised and slaughtered the Romans who were marching

Along the shores of the Trebbia River, the Carthaginian invaders under Hannibal, including African cavalry and 40 elephants, defeated the

Today we visited the site of the Battle of Trebbia - the first major conflict Hannibal and his men had

Monumento Sibaud - a tribute in the Bobbio Valley to the Waldenses' GLorious Return. The Waldenses were exiled from their

The Waldenses suffered much persecution and faced opposition from all sides. They had to be well prepared to defend themselves.