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A magnificent Palace and Museum surrounded in beautiful gardens.
Karlsruhe, Germany.
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The Old Palace of John Whitgift School in Croydon. It was originally the summer residence of The Archbishop of Canterbury and parts of the building date back to the 12th century. Since 1889 it has been a girls school and is now part of The Whitgift Foundation of schools.
Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden is a large park with an eminent garden in Shinjuku and Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally a residence of the Naitō family in the Edo period. Afterwards, it became a garden under the management of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan. It is now a park under the jurisdiction of the national Ministry of the Environment.
The shogun bequeathed this land to Lord Naitō (daimyo) of Tsuruga in the Edo period who completed a garden here in 1772. After the Meiji Restoration the house and its grounds were converted into an experimental agricultural centre. It then because a botanical garden before becoming an imperial garden in 1879. The current configuration of the garden was completed in 1906. Most of the garden was destroyed by air raids in 1945, during the later stages of World War II. The garden was rebuilt after the war.
The jurisdiction over the Imperial Palace Outer Garden and the Kyoto imperial garden was transferred to the Ministry of Health and Welfare (now part of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) in 1947.
On May 21, 1949 the garden became open to the public as "National Park Shinjuku Imperial Gardens". It came under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Environment in January 2001 with the official name "Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden".
A beautiful palace, right on the River Thames. This in one of the courtyards in the Palace. It has beautiful well maintained gardens.
The Catherine Palace is a Rococo palace located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo, 30 km south of St. Petersburg, Russia. It was the summer residence of the Russian tsars.
Catalan Music Palace in Sant Pere Més Alt Street of Barcelona, in Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera neighborhood of the Old Town. The construction of Catalan Music Palace, designed by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, one of the greatest representatives of Catalan modernism together with Antoni Gaudí and Josep Puig i Cadafalch, was carried out between 1905 and 1908 combining very advanced structural solutions with others of Gothic inspiration, and with the integration of all the applied arts: sculpture, mosaic, stained glass and forging. The building was commissioned by the Orfeó Català, founded in 1891 by Lluís Millet and Amadeu Vives, to be its headquarters, and was sponsored by the same Catalan music-loving industrialists and investors who 60 years earlier had financed the construction of the great theater of opera and ballet in Barcelona, the Liceu. In 1997, UNESCO included Catalan Music Palace in the catalog of the Common World Heritage.
Baliati Palace is a less known tourist spot in Bangladesh to the outer world located at Shaturia in Manikganj. It is one of the finest specimens of 19th century monuments of the Renaissance colonial style in Bangladesh. The founder of the Baliati Zaminder was one Govinda Ram Shaha, who was a big salt merchant in the middle of the 18th century. He left four sons: Dadhi Ram, Ananda Ram, Pandit Ram, and Golap Ram. They built all these buildings in the palace complex. The famous Jagannath College in Dhaka was founded and endowed by a member of Baliati family, Babu Kishori Lal Roy Chowdhury and Roybahadur Harendra Kumar Roy Chowdhury.
The building complex consisted of seven separate blocks surrounded by a high enclosure wall pierced by three identical gateways, surmounted with a lion. The complex occupying an area of 5.88 acres of land and containing over 200 rooms of various shapes and dimensions. To the north, there is a tank with regular masonry landings. The central block of upper storey has a decorative hall called Rong Mohal, which is now used as a museum.
The palatial complex is now preserved as a protected cultural properties (antiquities). The department of archaeology protected this site on 1987.
The Buçaco Palace is a former convent that today houses a luxury hotel located in the Buçaco mountain range, in the municipality of Mealhada, in central Portugal. It is a national monument.
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Mogoșoaia Palace is situated about 10 kilometres from Bucharest, Romania. It was built between 1698-1702 by Constantin Brâncoveanu in what is called the Romanian Renaissance style or Brâncovenesc style.
Palace in Radziejowice as it looks in the Spring. This part of the palace is called "small castle" :)
The Palace in Radziejowice is a complex of Classical residences surrounded by a park, located in the village of Radziejowice, Poland. The location of the palace was already the site of a residence for the Radziejowski family in the 15th century. During the 17th century, the palace, after various expansions and modernisations, took on the Gothic architectural style, as did the other buildings in the complex. During the complex's greatest time of magnificence, the palace was a residence to various Kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Zygmund III Waza, Władysław IV and Jan III Sobieski. The current look of the complex comes from the turning point of the 18th and 19th centuries, after Kazimierz Krasiński's reconstruction of the complex, designed and by Jakub Kubicki. The expansion of the complex was later continued by Józef Wawrzyniec Krasiński, who had built the surrounding landscape park and the small Neo-Gothic castle. The castle and complex were devastated during World War II, but the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has thoroughly restored the site to its former beauty. Since 1965 the complex has performed the function of a cultural centre, including fine arts. Today the palace houses a museum and an exhibition space.
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Pałac w Radziejowicach w wiosennej scenerii. Widoczna na zdjęciu część pałacu nazywana jest "zameczkiem" :)
Zespół pałacowo-parkowy w Radziejowicach – pałac w stylu klasycystycznym wraz z otaczającym go parkiem, położone we wsi Radziejowice w powiecie żyrardowskim. W XV wieku, obok istniejącego obecnie pałacu klasycystycznego z XIX wieku, wznosiła się wieża mieszkalna, będąca siedzibą rodu Radziejowskich. Nieopodal wieży, na początku XVII wieku wojewoda łęczycki Stanisław Radziejowski, polecił zbudować wczesnobarokowy pałac z umieszczoną w elewacji długą arkadową galerią z widokiem na ogród. W czasie największej świetności Radziejowic, gdy zarządzał nimi Stanisław Radziejowski bywał tu król Zygmunt III Waza, a od 22 do 25 listopada 1632 roku przebywał król Władysław IV Waza oraz później także Jan III Sobieski. Obecną postać pałac otrzymał na przełomie XVIII i XIX wieku. W czasie II wojny światowej pałac został zajęty przez Niemców na szpital dla żołnierzy, a następnie zdewastowany przez żołnierzy Armii Czerwonej. W 1956 roku pozostałości radziejowickiego majątku stały się własnością Warszawskiego Stowarzyszenia Historyków Sztuki i postanowiono wówczas utworzyć w pałacu Dom Pracy Twórczej. Obecnie często bywają tam pisarze, publicyści, aktorzy, filmowcy, muzycy i plastycy. Pałac mieści także sale muzealne i galerię wystaw czasowych.
Dream Palace is a beautiful abandoned residence, nestled in the rolling green hills of north Portugal. It has an ornate Art Nouveau style.
Read more: www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/residential/dream-palace...
The Winter Palace was the official residence of the Russian Emperors from 1732 to 1917. Today, the palace and its precincts form the Hermitage Museum. Situated between Palace Embankment and Palace Square, in Saint Petersburg, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it was severely damaged by fire and immediately rebuilt. The storming of the palace in 1917, as depicted in Soviet propaganda art and Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 film October, became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution.
As completed, the overriding exterior form of the Winter Palace's architecture, with its decoration in the form of statuary and opulent stucco work on the pediments above façades and windows, is Baroque. The exterior has remained as finished during the reign of Empress Elizabeth. The principal façades, those facing the Palace Square and the Neva river, have always been accessible and visible to the public. Only the lateral façades are hidden behind granite walls, concealing a garden created during the reign of Nicholas II. The building was conceived as a town palace, rather than a private palace within a park, such as that of the French kings at Versailles.
The palace was constructed on a monumental scale that was intended to reflect the might and power of Imperial Russia. From the palace, the Tsar ruled over 22,400,000 square kilometers (8,600,000 sq mi) (almost 1/6 of the Earth's landmass) and over 125 million subjects by the end of the 19th century. It was designed by many architects, most notably Bartolomeo Rastrelli, in what came to be known as the Elizabethan Baroque style. The green-and-white palace has the shape of an elongated rectangle, and its principal façade is 215 metres (705 ft) long and 30 m (98 ft) high. The Winter Palace has been calculated to contain 1,886 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms and 117 staircases. Following a serious fire, the palace's rebuilding of 1837 left the exterior unchanged, but large parts of the interior were redesigned in a variety of tastes and styles, leading the palace to be described as a "19th-century palace inspired by a model in Rococo style".
The Palace of Fine Arts was built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which was held in San Francisco. None of the buildings were meant to be permanent. However, the Palace of Fine Arts was so beautiful that it was not torn down after the fair. Miraculously, the palace survived the 1989 earthquake with little damage. The Beaux-Arts style structure features and dome and Roman-style curved colonnades. Surrounding the palace is a park with a duck pond. Adjacent to the palace is the San Francisco Exploratorium, which is a discovery museum with hands-on exhibits on science, art and human perception.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PALACE OF FINE ARTS:
"The Palace was not designed as 'a Valentine for San Francisco.' Maybeck visualized its colonnade streaming with people, finding a reward within the great doors."
The task of creating a Palace of Fine Arts for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition fell to the architect Bernard R. Maybeck, then fifty years old and known for his innovative ideas. Setting to work on this new project, he chose as his theme a Roman ruin, mutilated and overgrown, in the mood of a Piranesi engraving. But this ruin was not to exist solely for itself to show "the mortality of grandeur and the vanity of human wishes .... " Although it was meant to give delight by its exterior beauty, its purpose was also to offer all visitors a stimulating experience within doors.
In playing host to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, The Fair, which opened on February 20, 1915, San Francisco was honoring the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the completion of the Panama Canal; it was also celebrating its own resurrection after the shattering earthquake and fire of 1906.
The problems of choosing the exact site in the city had finally been overcome and groundwork had been going on for some time. Last of the buildings to be erected, on the lagoon and close by a group of Monterey cypresses, was Maybeck's Palace of Fine Arts. With its exhibition hall to house the work of living artists (dominated by the Impressionists), its colonnade, and its rotunda -- plans for all of which had dazzled the Commissioners when the huge brown-paper sketch was put before them -- it fulfilled the architect's dream: it was as beautiful reflected in the water as it was against the sky. And when the Palace was completed (Roman in style although a freely-interpreted, purely romantic conception, and Greek in decorative treatment) its exceptional harmony gave it instant appeal to the public.
There are fountains and statues galore at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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The Vorontsov Palace was constructed from 1830–1848, to be used as a summer residence of the governor-general of the Novorossiysky Krai, Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov.
From February 11–14, 1945, the Yalta Conference took place in the neighbouring Livadia Palace between the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. During the time, the Vorontsov Palace served as the residence of Winston Churchill and the British delegation to the conference
The Palace of Holyroodhouse, Her Majesty The Queen's official residence in Scotland, stands at the end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile against the spectacular backdrop of Arthur's Seat.
www.royalcollection.org.uk/visit/palace-of-holyroodhouse
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The medieval Buckden Palace, which lies alongside the old Great North Road in between Huntingdon and St Neots in Cambridgeshire, was once one of several palaces used by the Bishops of Lincoln. It dates from the 12th century with some buildings dating from the 15th century. Now known as Buckden Towers, the Grade I-listed building, together with associated later buildings, was latterly a Catholic seminary and is now a retreat and conference centre. The adjacent Parish Church of St Mary, on the right, dates from the 13th century though the tower was built in the early 15th century. It is also Grade I-listed.
I visitied the Nymphenburg Palace (German: Schloss Nymphenburg) in Munich on a cold night this week. It quite does not look as impressive as it is when your out there. The whole area is huge. In front of the palace there is a huge circle with big houses built in a symmetry star. I could not get into the backyard, but this is even larger.
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