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The city also contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Pitti Palace, amongst others, and still exerts an influence in the fields of art, culture and politics.
The remains of the Old Palace ( with the exception of the detached Jewel Tower ) were incorporated in its much larger replacement, which contains over 1, 100 rooms organised symmetrically around two series of courtyards.
In the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett, the Patrician's Palace contains the Rats Chamber, an anagrammatical equivalent to the actual Star Chamber.
The National Museum of Contemporary Art ( MNAC ), situated in a wing of the Palace of the Parliament, was opened in 2004 and contains a widespread collection of Romanian and international contemporary art, in a number of expressive forms.
The city contains several notable hotels including Sofitel Malabo President Palace, Hotel Ureka, Hotel Bahia and Hotel Impala.
The Archbishop's Palace contains a Byzantine museum containing the largest collection of religious icons on the island.
Thimphu contains most of the important political buildings in Bhutan, including the National Assembly of the newly formed parliamentary democracy and Dechencholing Palace, the official residence of the King, located to the north of the city.
Once the capital of Scotland, Stirling contains the Great Hall ( restored 1999 ) and the Renaissance Palace ( restoration completed 2011 ) within the Castle that rivalled any building in Europe at the time.
The " principal apartment ", or State bedroom suite, contains fine furniture and paintings as does the drawing room with its huge Venetian window ; the dining room, with its gigantic apse, has a ceiling that Adam based on the Palace of Augustus in the Farnese Gardens.
Paradise contains McCarran International Airport, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and most of the Las Vegas Strip, including well-known hotels such as Caesars Palace, the Bellagio, and the MGM Grand.
Major Parks in the Richmond include Lincoln Park and Golf Course in the Outer Richmond which also contains the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
The Study contains a collection of Roman architectural fragments and the two external courtyards, the Monument Court and Monk's Yard contain an array of architectural fragments, Classical in the Monument Court with its central column or ' pasticcio ' representing Architecture and Gothic in the Monk's Yard, filled with medieval stonework from the Palace of Westminster.
This will open the way to the Great Palace, which contains the Triforce of Courage.
* Kensington Palace Gardens contains some of the grandest and most expensive houses in the world
According to John Ruskin, the Doge's Palace in Venice contains " three elements in exactly equal proportions — the Roman, the Lombard, and Arab.
Further, the Helikon Library at the Palace contains many works that were brought to Keszthely by the Lady Mary from her father and brother's collections at Hamilton Palace.
The Palace grounds, on the shores of Lake Balaton, contains a Mausoleum to the Festetics and is the final resting place of the Lady Mary and her husband.
The main Mile End campus contains the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Engineering, the Queens ' Building / People's Palace / Octagon, the main college library, the student union, Draper's bar and club, several restaurants, a number of halls of residences and a gym.
The historic Vittoriosa Waterfront contains the former Palace of the General of the Galleys and the Order of St John's treasury.
Victory Palace contains statues of Pokémon who have beaten the Elite Four in Gym Leader Castle or completed the highest round of a tournament in the Stadium.
The church contains a number of marble carvings designed by Sir Christopher Wren for the private chapel in the Palace of Westminster.
It contains the Al-Sakhir Palace, built in 1870.
The three parks are owned by Palace Entertainment but each contains different attractions.
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In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.
Some notable buildings of Gamla Stan are the large German Church ( Tyska kyrkan ) and several mansions and palaces: the Riddarhuset ( the House of Nobles ), the Bonde Palace, the Tessin Palace and the Oxenstierna Palace.
Many visiting dignitaries toured the Palace, and it also hosted performances by notable international artists, such as a 1967 concert by the Rolling Stones, the first by a major western rock group behind the Iron Curtain.
Two notable buildings from this time are the Crețulescu Palace, currently housing cultural institutions including UNESCO's European Centre for Higher Education, and the Cotroceni Palace, the current residence of the Romanian President.
Also notable are the Venetian-Roman style City Hall, the Old and New castles, the recently restored Palace of Sts.
Another notable collection is the collaboration with the National Palace Museum of Taiwan, a collection of various kitchenware products with Asian themes.
One of the boroughs, the City of Westminster, is the seat of government as home to the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and other notable government, judicial and religious buildings.
Following his U. S. premiere Benigni performed his last presentation in 16 June 2009, in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he was awarded as Honorary Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires in a ceremony held at the Legislative Palace of the City in homage to the notable Italian diaspora and culture in Argentina.
Other notable buildings by Wren include the Royal Naval College in Greenwich and the south front of Hampton Court Palace.
Monza Park and the gardens of the Royal Palace are of notable interest.
Among the most notable are Amba Vilas, popularly known as Mysore Palace ; Jaganmohana Palace, which also serves as an art gallery ; Rajendra Vilas, also known as the summer palace ; Lalitha Mahal, which has been converted into a hotel ; and Jayalakshmi Vilas.
The most notable exceptions are St Margaret's Chapel, the oldest surviving building in Edinburgh, which dates from the early 12th century, the Royal Palace, and the early-16th-century Great Hall.
Other notable residents of Clapham Common were Palace of Westminster architect Sir Charles Barry, Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and 20th century novelist Graham Greene.
In 1837 he won the competition to design the Reform Club, Pall Mall, London, this is one of his finest Italianate public buildings, notable for its double height central saloon with glazed roof, his favourite building in Rome, the Farnese Palace influenced the design.
Particularly notable was the influx of old masters from the Catherine Palace, the Alexander Palace, the Stroganov Palace and the Yusupov Palace as well as from other palaces of Saint Petersburg and suburbs.
The most notable building here is the Baroque Government Palace, dating from 1664 and constructed out of red volcanic stone, it is known for its hundred arches.
Other notable descendants were Ballymoss, Shergar, Arkle, Never Say Die, Mr. Prospector, Nasrullah, Nijinsky II ( winner of the UK Triple Crown ), Royal Palace, Better Loosen Up, Sir Ivor, and Invasor.
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Another museum in Khartoum is the Palace Museum, located adjacent to the historical Presidential Palace on Blue Nile Street.
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.
The Louvre Palace ( Palais du Louvre ) which houses the museum was begun as a fortress by Philip II in the 12th century, with remnants of this building still visible in the crypt.
* September 5 – In Paris, the Louvre Palace is opened to the public as a museum.
During 2007, the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo in Sevilla www. caac. es, organized an exhibition at the Palace of Charles V in la Alhambra-Granada-in which Viola's work dialogues with the Fine Arts Collection of the museum.
The Roman villa excavated by Cunliffe's team was so large that it became known as Fishbourne Roman Palace, and a museum was erected to protect and preserve some of the remains in situ.
The Pink Palace Museum serves as the Mid-South's major science and historical museum, and features exhibits ranging from archeology to chemistry.
* King Toffa's Palace ( also known as the Musée Honmé and the Royal Palace ), now a museum, shows what life was like for African royalty.
The National Palace Museum is an art gallery and museum built around a permanent collection centered on ancient Chinese artifacts.
The National Palace Museum ( Guólì Gùgōng Bówùyuàn ) is an art museum in Taipei City.
The Winter Palace of the Bogd Khan ( Bogd khaanii nogoon süm or Bogd khaanii öwliin ordon ) remains as a museum of the last monarch.
* Schöena Palace and museum
* Palace of Kraków Bishops ( 1637 – 1641 ): summer residence of Bishops of Kraków, built in early baroque style by Giovanni Battista Trevano and Tomasz Poncino ; houses a museum with an important gallery of Polish paintings
The Crown Jewels used at the coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie are kept at the museum in the National Palace ( formerly the Jubilee Palace ) in Addis Ababa.
This crown ( termed " the massive gold state crown ") and many other royal artifacts were saved when the Rova ( the royal palace and royal tomb complex ) in Antananarivo burned on November 6, 1995 and are now kept in the Andafivaratra Palace museum nearby.
The Royal Palace at Nyanza, a domed construction made with traditional materials, has been restored to its 19th-century state and is now maintained as a museum.
Sweden's Crown Jewels are kept deep in the vaults of the Royal Treasury, underneath the Royal Palace in Stockholm, in a museum which is open to the public.
There is a special museum in the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso, and others are displayed in various historic buildings.
The Palais des ducs de Bourgogne ( Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy ) now houses city hall and a museum of medieval art.
After undergoing thorough and careful restoration works, they are now exhibited, on their original columns, in these 6 rooms of the museum, which are traversed by an ancient wall in great blocks of stone, a remnant of an earlier version of the Palace.
The critic Paul Goldberger later wrote that, before Wright's modernist building, " there were only two common models for museum design: Beaux-arts Palace ... and the International Style Pavilion.
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