When people discuss the fall of Rome, they often mention the Visigoths or Vandals. Yet the Burgundians played a strategic and political role that is frequently overlooked. They crossed the Rhine, ...

After the fall of the Visigoths, the Umayyads swept through Iberia. But in the Asturian hills, Pelayo made a stand that lit the first fire of resistance.

These ruins of a church were once part of the huge palatine complex in Reccopolis, a rare urban settlement founded by the Visigoths in Spain. One consequence of this turmoil was that, across most of ...

Travel guru Simon Calder named Cascais, near Lisbon in Portugal, as one of his favourite holiday destinations. This ...

The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C. at the end of the Spanish Campaign and was the capital of Lusitania. The well-preserved remains of ...

Born in Thagaste, a city under Roman rule in modern-day Algeria, Augustine of Hippo (354–430) was the son of a pagan father ...

Within ancient history, tales of kings and rulers often contain unexpected twists and turns. Enter Wamba, the 7th century King of the Visigoths, whose reign is shrouded in a peculiar legend regarding ...

Al-Andalus is the name given to the Iberian Peninsula when it was under Muslim rule. Islam arrived in that region with the arrival of the Moors during the 8 th century AD, and succeeded in conquering ...

The Visigoth Command Group introduces a neat Champion or Bodyguard into the mix alongside two Musicians. One of them is armoured and the other unarmoured, so they match the existing range by 1898 ...