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Palaces < Link Review >
Great Buildings Online gives images, information, commentary and bibliography on a selection of palaces around the world from Minoan to modern.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/palace.html |
Archbishop's Palace, Kromeriz, Czech Republic < Link Review >
Early-Baroque palace designed by Italian architects Filiberto Lucchese and Giovanni Pietro Tencalla. Official site with photograph, history and visitor information.
http://www.azz.cz/ |
Beijing Service: Summer Palace < Link Review >
Offers an illustrated history and description this former imperial retreat in China, now a huge public park. Features a selection of its more than 3,000 buildings.
http://www.beijingservice.com/summerpalace.htm |
Beijing Trip: Summer Palace < Link Review >
A history, description and bird's eye map of the second largest imperial garden in China. The complex includes halls, temple and pagoda built around a lake.
http://www.beijingtrip.com/attractions/summer/ |
Esterhazy Palace < Link Review >
This magnificent palace in Fertod, Hungary, was begun in 1720 by Prince J?zsef Esterh?zy. The official site gives a history of the palace, details of exhibitions and concerts, and visitor information.
http://www.schloss-esterhazy.at/ |
The Grand Palace in Bangkok < Link Review >
Ann Church provides a guide to this ornate palace complex. Aerial view. Tour via sensitive bird's-eye map. Illustrated history of the royal family and information on Buddhism.
http://www.smcm.edu/art/Thailand/ |
The Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand < Link Review >
Photographs by Nattawud Daoruang of this huge palace enclosure built in 1783, containing government offices and the Chapel Royal of the Emerald Buddha besides the royal residences.
http://www.thaistudents.com/guidebook/palace1.html |
Imperial Palaces of Petersburg < Link Review >
Bob Atchison provides a virtual tour of the Alexander Palace, Pavlovsk, Yelagin, Gatchina, Catherine Palace, Winter Palace and Peterhof. Part of Russian History Websites.
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/petepalaces/palaces.html |
The Louvre < Link Review >
Publisher's description of this history by Alexandra Bonfante-Warren of the palace in Paris now one of the world's great museums, with excerpts.
http://www.hlla.com/catalog/louvre.html |
Northwest Palace of Ashur-nasir-pal II at Nimrud < Link Review >
History of this Assyrian palace from Learning Sites, with a VRML model and bibliography.
http://www.learningsites.com/NWPalace/NWPalhome.html |
The Palace of Diocletian at Split < Link Review >
An illustrated essay with bibliography by Michael Greenhalgh of the Australian National University on the Late Roman palace at Split (Spalato) whose ruins survived to influence Neo-Classical architects.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/split/split1.html |
The Palace of Rameses III < Link Review >
Mohammed Motlib uses computer-reconstruction to show how the Window of Appearance could have been used. Part of The Virtual Study Tour, from the New Zealand School of Architecture.
http://archpropplan.auckland.ac.nz/virtualtour/rameses/ |
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin < Link Review >
Description of the ensemble of palaces and parks created by the 18th and 19th-century Prussian kings and German emperors - a World Heritage site. From Cartographic Information System on European Affairs.
http://www.geog.fu-berlin.de/eurocis/whl/c532potsdam.shtml |
Palazzi Veneziani < Link Review >
Jan-Christoph R??ler provides images, information and bibliography on Venetian palaces. [German, English, Italian]
http://www.jc-r.net/venezia/palazzi/ |
The Royal Palace of Norway < Link Review >
The official site for the Norwegian monarchy provides an illustrated history and virtual guided tour of the palace in Oslo designed by Danish-born Hans Linstow (1787-1851).
http://www.kongehuset.no/ |
Schloss Laxenburg, Austria < Link Review >
Brief history and tour of the 18th-century former imperial palace, now the headquarters of International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/docs/IIASA_Tour.html |
Sch?nbrunn Palace, Austria < Link Review >
The official site provides photographs and brief history of the magnificent Baroque imperial palace, with visitor information. The archive of plans, images and papers will be open to the public in future.
http://www.schoenbrunn.at/ |
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia < Link Review >
The official site provides a virtual tour and history of the museum buildings: the Baroque Winter Palace (1754-1762) designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli and the Neo-Classical Small Hermitage and Large Hermitage.
http://www.hermitage.ru/ |
The Topkapi Palace Museum < Link Review >
Bilkent University Department of History provides a history of this grandiose Ottoman palace and guide to its architectural development. Includes a bibliography.
http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/topkapi.html |
Virtual Tour of Potala Palace, Tibet < Link Review >
This tour takes in both the massive exterior and the ornate interior of the former palace of the Dalai Lama, spiritual and political head of Tibet.
http://www.100gogo.com/tibet/pa1.htm |
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