A woman who bought an "abandoned" bank built more than a century ago has uncovered an original marble floor, which had been ... "They look like they were laid by hand in individual marble squares ...

For anyone who has performed the Umrah or Hajj pilgrimages, they will have probably noticed the coolness under foot when they stepped onto the marble floors of the Grand Mosque and around the Holy ...

Siena, the famous Tuscan rival of Florence, is justly famous for Il Palio, a legendary horse race with roots that go back to the Middle Ages ... inlaid marble mosaic floor. The immense mosaic ...