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The Catherine Palace is a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), located 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of central St. Petersburg. It was the summer residence of the tsars. The palace is part of the World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments. The display of the Catherine Palace (known until 1910 as the Great Palace of Tsarskoe Selo) covers the 300-year history of this outstanding edifice and presents the work of architects involved in its construction and decoration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and also with the achievements of the restorers who returned the palace to life after the Second World War. Of the 58 halls destroyed during the war years, 32 have been recreated.
In 1717, while St Petersburg was being created on the banks of the Neva, the architect Johann Friedrich Braunstein started supervising the construction of the first masonry royal residence at Tsarskoe Selo that has gone down in history as “the stone chambers” of Catherine I. During the reign of Empress Elizabeth (the daughter of Peter the Great and Catherine I) in late 1742 or early 1743 it was decided to enlarge the building. From late 1748 until 1756 the construction of the Tsarskoe Selo residence was directed by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (1700–1771), the chief architect of the imperial court. On 10 May 1752 Empress Elizabeth signed a decree on the complete reconstruction of the old building and on 30 July 1756 Rastrelli was already presenting his new creation to his crowned mistress and foreign ambassadors.
The next stage in the decoration of the state rooms and living quarters came in the 1770s. The new mistress of the residence, Empress Catherine II, was fascinated with the art of the Ancient World and wanted to have her apartments finished in keeping with current tastes. She entrusted the task to the Scottish architect Charles Cameron (1743–1812), an expert on ancient architecture. The interiors that he created in the Zubov Wing and the North Part of the Palace are marked by refined beauty, austere decoration and especially exquisite finishing. In 1817, on the orders of Emperor Alexander I, the architect Vasily Stasov (1769–1848) created the State Study and a few adjoining rooms that are finished in a commons style – all these rooms were devoted to extolling the brilliant victories that the Russian army won against Napoleon in 1812 and afterwards. The last note in the symphony of palace state rooms was struck by the new Main Staircase created in 1860–63 by Ippolito Monighetti (1819–1878) in the "Second Rococo" style.
Situated on the Portuguese Riviera atop a hill above the town of Sintra sits a romanesque palace built in the 1800s. It's famous for its architecture, terraces, battlements, and mythical statues. In Explore, May 10, 2022.
Mysore palace was a royal residence of the Wadiyar dynasty of Kings.
It was built and constructed multiple times over a 14th century fort.
It is lit very well in the night but unfortunately I could only briefly visit it during day time.
Dream Palace is a beautiful abandoned residence, nestled in the rolling green hills of north Portugal. It has an ornate Art Nouveau style.
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Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, 19 kilometres southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames. Opened to the public, the palace is managed by Historic Royal Palaces, a charity set up to preserve several unoccupied royal properties. The palace is open to the public and a major tourist attraction. Apart from the palace itself and its gardens, other points of interest for visitors include the celebrated maze, the historic royal tennis court and a huge grape vine, the world's largest as of 2005.
The Palace of Holyroodhouse, commonly referred to as Holyrood Palace or Holyroodhouse, or Holyrood Castle, is the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland
Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament in London, England. Hosts the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons).
The palace contains around 1100 rooms, 100 staircases and 4,8 km of corridors. Although the building mainly dates from the 19th century, remaining elements of the original historic buildings include Westminster Hall, used today for major public ceremonial events such as lyings in state, and the Jewel Tower.
Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster.
The Orangerieschloss is the largest and most recent of the palaces in the Sanssouci Park at Potsdam, built for King Frederick William IV of Prussia between 1851 and 1864. With living quarters in the middle section, much of the 300 metre long building is taken up by two vast plant halls. They are still used to accommodate potted exotic trees and shrubs in the winter.
Sunset at the Wilhelmsthal Palace. One of the most beautiful rococo palaces in Germany.
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The Palace of the Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich was built in 1667-1672 by the order of the Tsar as a gala summer residence at the Tsar's Courtyard in Kolomenskoye. The palace served for the rest of the Tsar's family in the country, court ceremonies and reception of overseas ambassadors. The division of the palace into men's and women's half reflected the patterns of life of the Tsar's family in the XVII century. The men's half comprised the Tsar's and the Tsareviches' (the Tsar's sons") towers, while the women's half consisted of the Tsarina's (the Tsar's wife's) and the Tsarevnas' (the Tsar's daughters') towers. The courtier poet Simeon Polotsky referred to the palace as "the Eight Wonder of the World".
The palace building served its purpose for a hundred years, but eventually fell into disrepair and was dismantled in 1767 by the order of Empress Catherine II. Plans, descriptions and images of the palace have survived to our days.
In 2007 - 2010, the palace was reconstructed. The opening ceremony took place on 5th September 2010, on Moscow Day.
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The Palace of Holyroodhouse commonly referred to as Holyrood Palace or Holyroodhouse, is the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland. Located at the bottom of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, at the opposite end to Edinburgh Castle, Holyroodhouse has served as the principal royal residence in Scotland since the 16th century, and is a setting for state occasions and official entertaining.
The late Queen, Elizabeth II, spent one week in residence at Holyroodhouse at the beginning of each summer, where she carried out a range of official engagements and ceremonies. The 16th-century historic apartments of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the State Apartments, used for official and state entertaining, are open to the public throughout the year, except when members of the Royal Family are in residence. The Queen's Gallery was built at the western entrance to the Palace of Holyroodhouse and opened in 2002 to exhibit works of art from the Royal Collection. The gardens of the palace are set within Holyrood Park.
The Grand Kremlin Palace, also translated Great Kremlin Palace, was built from 1837 to 1849 in Moscow, Russia on the site of the estate of the Grand Princes, which had been established in the 14th century on Borovitsky Hill.
The Hofburg is the official residence and workplace of the President of Austria and was formerly the principal imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty. Located in the center of Vienna, it was built in the 13th century and expanded several times afterwards. It also served as the imperial winter residence, as Schönbrunn Palace was the summer residence.
Located at the bottom of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, at the opposite end to Edinburgh Castle, Holyroodhouse has served as the principal royal residence in Scotland since the 16th century.
The Bishops Palace has been described as the work of a series of 'builder bishops', with work carried out in the late 13th and 14th centuries. In 1284, King Edward I visited St Davids on a pilgrimage and this visit may have inspired some earlier work because Bishop Thomas Bek, who served from 1280 to 1293, was among his former statesmen. Bishop Bek was responsible for construction of the chapel in the south-west corner, the hall, the private apartments and the gate.
Palácio de Cristal - Crystal Palace
Petrópolis city, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The metal and glass components of the Palace were manufactured in 1879 in Saint-Saveur-les-Arras, France; that kind of building was opular in Europe after the Industrial Revolution.
In 1888, four years after opening, Princess Isabel held a spectacular party here; at that historical event, she granted freedom to several slaes, and that was a prelude to her signing, a few months later, the law which abolished slavery in Brazil.
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The Doge's Palace is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice in northern Italy. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice, the supreme authority of the former Republic of Venice, opening as a museum in 1923. Today, it is one of the 11 museums run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.*
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge%27s_Palace
During the reign of Maria Theresa, as an imperial summer residence, Schönbrunn Palace became the glittering focus of court life. From this time on, it played host to the leading statesmen of Europe.
The beautiful Peterhof Palace is a must-see St Petersburg attraction. This series of palaces and gardens just outside of town, majestic and covered in gold, is often referred to as the “Russian Versailles”.
The elaborate Subway, designed by Charles Barry Jr, first opened in 1865 and provided a direct link for rail passengers coming from the High Level Station under Crystal Palace Parade and into the Palace.
Only open on selected dates : www.crystalpalaceparktrust.org/pages/how-to-visit-the-cry...
The famous Ottoman palace, shot on a wet and blustery day, from the Galata Tower (Galata Kulesi), in Istanbul, Turkey.
Taken with my Nikon D40, fitted with a Tamron 70-300mm F4/5.6 DI LD (Nikon AFS) lens and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.