During the 1960s, he contributed as a collaborator of Cardinal Lercaro but since his presence was not welcome by some sectors of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, he chose to retire in silence.

* The Bishop's Palace ( 1055 ).

To the north and south of the rock of the Doms, partly on the site of the Bishop's Palace, which had been enlarged by John XXII, was built the Palace of the Popes, in the form of an imposing fortress consisting of towers, linked to each other, and named as follows: De la Campane, de Trouillas, de la Glacière, de Saint-Jean, des Saints-Anges ( Benedict XII ), de la Gâche, de la Garde-Robe ( Clement VI ), de Saint-Laurent ( Innocent VI ).

The Bishop's Palace next to the Cathedral was built in 1204 and continually used to the present day.

Many places usually closed to the public are opened during this week, such as the Bishop's Palace at the Cathedral.

The Bishop's Palace

The Bishop's Palace, also known as Gresham's Castle, is an ornate Victorian house located on Broadway and 14th Street in the East End Historic District of Galveston, Texas.

The American Institute of Architects listed Bishop's Palace as one of the 100 most significant buildings in the United States, and the Library of Congress has classified it as one of the fourteen most representative Victorian structures in the nation.

The name Wells derives from the three wells dedicated to Saint Andrew, one in the market place and two within the grounds of the Bishop's Palace and cathedral.

The Bishop's Palace has been the home of the bishops of the Diocese of Bath and Wells for 800 years.

The Bishop's Palace gatehouse and drawbridge

Anne and James were formally married at the Old Bishop's Palace in Oslo on 23 November 1589, " with all the splendour possible at that time and place.

Other noteworthy buildings in the square shared by the Cathedral ( Plaza Cardenal Belluga ) are the colorful Bishop's Palace ( 18th century ) and a controversial extension to the town hall by Rafael Moneo ( built in 1999 ).

* Museum of the Bishop's Palace

Salisbury Cathedral Choir auditions boys and girls aged 8 – 9 years old annually for scholarships to Salisbury Cathedral School, housed in the old Bishop's Palace.

This instrument was removed first to the Bishop's Palace at Wells in 1836, then to St Mary's Church, Yatton, where it was subsequently rebuilt and extensively modified.

* Bishop's Palace ( 18th century )

Madonna under the fir tree ( 1510 ), Bishop's Palace, Wrocław.

The Bishop's Palace as it appears today

Damage was done to the church in 1400 during the rebellion of Owain Glyndŵr ; his forces also destroyed the Bishop's Palace at Llandaff.

However, he returned to Norwich in 1824, hoping to improve his financial position, and moved into a large house in St Martin's Plain, opposite the Bishop's Palace, where he built up a collection of prints, books and armour, and had a many models of ships to help him with his compositions.

Next to the Cathedral are the ruins of the former Bishop's Palace and Earl's Palace.

Next to the cathedral, the 14th century Bishop's Palace is a ruin maintained by Cadw and open to visitors.

Pugin were commissioned to transform the ruined chapel of the old Bishop's Palace into a medieval-style banqueting hall, with a huge perpendicular stained-glass window, choir-stalls and Gothic stenciling on the walls and roof timbers.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

* The Old Palace, Bekesbourne, built c. 1552 for Archbishop Cranmer

The emperor Valens built the Palace of Hebdomon on the shore of the Propontis near the Golden Gate, probably for use when reviewing troops.

Theodosius I founded the Church of John the Baptist to house the skull of the saint ( today preserved at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey ), put up a memorial pillar to himself in the Forum of Taurus, and turned the ruined temple of Aphrodite into a coach house for the Praetorian Prefect ; Arcadius built a new forum named after himself on the Mese, near the walls of Constantine.

The city itself grew around the heavily fortified Diocletian's Palace the Emperor had built in anticipation of his retirement.

Branagh set the film with late 19th-century costuming and furnishings ; and Blenheim Palace, built in the early 18th century, became Elsinore Castle in the external scenes.

Cultural sites include: the National Museum of Afghanistan, notably displaying an impressive statue of Surya excavated at Khair Khana, the ruined Darul Aman Palace, the tomb of Mughal Emperor Babur at Bagh-e Babur, and Chehlstoon Park, the Minar-i-Istiqlal ( Column of Independence ) built in 1919 after the Third Afghan War, the mausoleum of Timur Shah Durrani, and the imposing Id Gah Mosque ( founded 1893 ).

The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace ( Palais du Louvre ) which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century under Philip II.

A major 19th-century engineering achievement was The Crystal Palace, the huge cast-iron and plate glass exhibition hall built for The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London.

Samuel Morse received his first ever patent for the telegraph in 1847, at the old Beylerbeyi Palace ( the present Beylerbeyi Palace was built in 1861 – 1865 on the same location ) in Istanbul, which was issued by Sultan Abdülmecid who personally tested the new invention.

* The Ducal Palace, built from 1561 for Duke Ottavio Farnese on a design by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola.

In Rome Gregory XIII built the magnificent Gregorian chapel in the Basilica of St. Peter, and extended the Quirinal Palace in 1580.

Not a great lover of Berlin, he later built a new palace, the Sanssouci, at Potsdam in 1744-7, followed by the New Palace in 1763-9, so the road now had to be made fit for a King, plus all his courtiers and staff.

In Rome he built for summer use the Belvedere of the Vatican, on an unarticulated slope above the Vatican Palace, which his successor would turn into the Cortile del Belvedere.

Samuel Morse received a patent for the telegraph in 1847, at the old Beylerbeyi Palace ( the present Beylerbeyi Palace was built in 1861 – 1865 on the same location ) in Istanbul, which was issued by Sultan Abdülmecid who personally tested the new invention.

The Palace of Charles V, built by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in 1527, was inserted in the Alhambra within the Nasrid fortifications.

Charles Barry's architecture for the new Palace of Westminster, which had been badly damaged in an 1834 fire, was built in the medieval style of Westminster Hall, the surviving part of the building.

Despite his nominal retirement, Jardine was still very much active in business and politics and built a townhouse in 6 Upper Belgrave Street, then a new upscale residential district in London near Buckingham Palace.

* The Palace of Versailles is first built by Louis XIII, as a hunting lodge.

July 30: In Russia, Empress Elizabeth at the porch of the newly built Catherine Palace, painting ( 1905 ) by Eugene Lanceray ( in Tretyakov Gallery ).

* July 30 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

* The Palace of Aljafería is built in Zaragoza, Spain, during the Al-Andalus period.

* November 30 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire ( it had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition ).