The 300-year-old Baroque townhouse on Chelsea's famed Cheyne Walk has a garden that incorporates a section of wall from Henry ...

Why we love it: Travel through the home and you'll take a trip around ... a lower level heavily influenced by Asian architecture, and a Baroque-inspired basement with hand-carved woodwork.

In the north of Portugal, there lies a town founded by the ancient Romans over 2,000 years ago, the oldest city in Portugal: ...

The 17th century saw a wealth of Polish Baroque developments, most prominently in architecture. With family and religion ... which subsequently became a home for new Oriental fabrics and tapestries, ...

Never before or later in Polish architecture did the wealth of forms and details take on such a spectacular scale as in the Baroque era, when temples and palaces were designed with exceptional panache ...

This lesser known Italian city is often dubbed the "Florence of the South" for its stunning baroque architecture but remains free from the crowds of tourists.

Baroque architecture is closely entwined with the Counter-Reformation, an effort by the Catholic Church to respond to the rising challenge of Protestantism across Europe. Church leaders used ...