Actually an underground cistern, its roof supported by rows and rows of pillars, it was built by Justinian in the Sixth Century to supply the palace with water.

The imperial palace in Beijing's Forbidden City reached its current splendor.

The larger ship was essentially an elaborate floating palace that counted marble floors and plumbing among its amenities.

Modern versions typically retain Camelot's lack of precise location and its status as a symbol of the Arthurian world, though they typically transform the castle itself into romantically lavish visions of a High Middle Ages palace.

Cairo has been a crossroads of Arab commerce and culture for millennia, and its intellectual and Islamic institutions are at the center of the region's social and cultural landmark palace.

In the end all the palace and its people just vanish and Gylfi is left standing on empty ground.

Architects ' Journal rated the temple third on its top-ten architecture of Star Wars list behind the second Death Star and Jabba the Hutt ’ s palace on Tatooine, and ahead of Coruscant, capital city of the Old Republic.

Constructed from Norman through to Tudor times, the castle has been described by architectural historian Anthony Emery as " the finest surviving example of a semi-royal palace of the later middle ages, significant for its scale, form and quality of workmanship ".

This part of the castle is considered by historian Anthony Emery to be " the finest surviving example of a semi-royal palace of the later middle ages, significant for its scale, form and quality of workmanship ".

A hall was opened by Le Normant de Tournehem and the Marquis de Marigny for public viewing of the Tableaux du Roy on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and contained Andrea del Sarto's Charity and works by Raphael ; Titian ; Veronese ; Rembrandt ; Poussin or Van Dyck, until its closing in 1780 as a result of the gift of the palace to the comte de Provence by the king in 1778.

The Louvre has been a repository of sculpted material since its time as a palace ; however, only ancient architecture was displayed until 1824, except for Michelangelo's Dying Slave and Rebellious Slave.

Since its publishing, Little Nemo has had an influence on other artists, including Alan Moore, in Miracleman # 4, when the Miracleman family end up in a palace called " Sleepy Town ," which has imagery similar to Little Nemo's.

The Kingdom of Imerina, located in the central highlands with its capital at the royal palace of Antananarivo, emerged at around the same time under the leadership of King Andriamanelo.

On 22 March 2012, a group of junior soldiers seized control of the country's presidential palace and declared the government dissolved and its constitution suspended.

The Cathedral-and-Palace Ensemble with its fascinating palace garden ( Schlossgarten ), Merseburg House of Trades with a cultural stage and the German Museum of Chemistry, Merseburg, all bear witness to Merseburg ’ s history.

The ' Patuka ' palace can no longer be seen, except its ruins in the form of a mound.

In the Kuyunjik mound Layard rediscovered in 1849 the lost palace of Sennacherib with its 71 rooms and colossal bas-reliefs.

Because no documentary material existed of the storming of the palace, Eistenstein's re-creation of the event has become the source material for historians and filmmakers, giving it further legitimacy as the accepted historical record, which illustrates its success as a propaganda film.

The son of the man who bought the unfinished palace on the Grand Canal ( now Ca ' Rezzonico ) and finished its construction, Carlo the pontiff was notorious for his rampant nepotism.

For ceremonial purposes, the palace retains its original style and status as a royal residence.

Babylon was taken, and its palace plundered but its citizens were left unharmed.

Escalating its activities in Lima, in June 1985 it blew up electricity transmission towers in Lima, producing a blackout, and detonated car bombs near the government palace and the justice palace.

Saddam's officers looted Kuwait, stripping even the marble from its palaces to move it to Saddam's own palace.

Starting with the 5th Dalai Lama and until the 14th Dalai Lama's flight into exile during 1959, the Dalai Lamas spent winters at the Potala Palace and summers at the Norbulingka palace and park.

The palace was created by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Henry V's half-brother and the regent to Henry VI in 1447 ; enclosing the park and erecting a tower on the spot of the Royal Observatory.

Then, in the Interregnum, the palace and park were seized to become a ' mansion ' for the Lord Protector.

The area north of the palace is a park and forest.

The palace is located in the middle of the Schlosspark, a vast park ( 120 ha.

The estate given by the nation to Marlborough for the new palace was the manor of Woodstock, sometimes called the Palace of Woodstock, which had been a royal demesne, in reality little more than a deer park.

When the park was being re-landscaped as a setting for the palace the 1st Duchess wanted the historic ruins demolished, while Vanbrugh, an early conservationist, wanted them restored and made into a landscape feature.

This view of the Duke as an omnipotent being is also reflected in the interior design of the palace, and indeed its axis to certain features in the park.

Following the 1st Duke's death the Duchess concentrated most of her considerable energies on the completion of the palace itself, and the park remained relatively unchanged until the arrival of Capability Brown in 1764.

The palace, park, and gardens are open to the public on payment of an entry fee (£ 20 ).

Concerts and festivals are also staged in the palace and park.

The landscaped park from the 19th century near the bishop's palace is a horticultural monument under special protection as well as the nearby Small Park ( Mali Park ) dating from the turn of the 19th / 20th century.

The Baroque palace of Mali Kaptol, the classicist Veliki Kaptol, the brick Stari most (" Old Bridge ") over the Kupa, and the ethnological park are the most frequently visited landmarks.

Hnatyshyn thereafter made an effort to open up Rideau Hall the monarch's and governor general's residence in Ottawa to the public, establishing a visitors ' centre and initiating guided tours of the palace and the royal park in which it sits.

Durbe manor house, () rebuilt in 1820, is a classical style palace, surrounded by landscaped park.

To celebrate the completion of this project, a commemorative tower ( modern Burj al-Qa ' im ) was built at the southern inlet south of Samarra, and a palace with a " paradise " or walled hunting park was constructed at the northern inlet ( modern Nahr al-Rasasi ) near to al-Daur.

The park sees thousands of visitors each year, who marvel at the ancient Buddha figures, palace buildings and ruined temples.

A partial copy of the palace, the " New Yuan Ming Palace " ( 圓明新園 ), was built in 1997 in the southern city of Zhuhai, in Guangdong province, as an amusement park of 1. 39 km², including an 80, 000 m² lake.

Unter den Linden runs east – west from the site of the former Stadtschloss royal palace at the Lustgarten park, where the demolished Palast der Republik used to be, to Pariser Platz and Brandenburg Gate.

By the Alexandra Park and Palace ( Public Purposes ) Act 1900, a charitable trust was set up ; representatives of the purchasing local authorities became the trustees with the duty to keep both palace and park " available for the free use and recreation of the public forever ".

During the First World War the park was closed and the palace and grounds were used as an internment camp for German and Austrian civilians.

The extensive original garden is now much smaller, with large parts built over, but Archbishop's Park is a public park adjacent to the palace gardens.

The gardens and park areas surrounding the castle and its buildings are one of the main attractions for the tourists that visit the palace each year. The gardens have been established in stages since the castle was built, resulting in different styles of parks and gardens.

The 17th-century Queen ’ s House, an early classical building designed by Inigo Jones, is the keystone of the historic " park and palace " landscape of maritime Greenwich.

As part of the palace, there is a park with many different species of Mediterranean vegetation, among them a cork tree.