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Elegant photography and enthralling background lore make this survey of more than fifty palaces on five continents a fascinating treat for lovers of architecture, world travel, and history alike.
In his newest addition to Prestel's popular Changed the World series, colorful, double-page spreads focus on the world' s most intriguing palaces to offer important architectural detail, historical background, photographs, maps, and absorbing anecdotes about the people and events that enrich theses palaces and assure their place in history. From Versailles, Windsor Castle, and the Chateaux of the Loire to Hearst's San Simeon, the Palace of the Winds in India and the Acheillion in Greece, to other glorious palaces in Egypt, Cuba and Japan, readers can learn what life was like inside these imposing walls, as well as the incidents of undaunted courage, villainous treachery, pivotal alliances, and glittering celebrations that changed the world outside those walls forever.
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Imperial Palace, Peking, China - Nymphenburg, Munich, Germany - Sanssouci, Potsdam, Germany - Chateau Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France - Chambord, Loire, France - Louvre, Paris, France - Royal Palace, Versailles, France - Achilleion, Corfu, Greece - Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland - Buckingham Palace, London, England - Hampton Court Palace, London, England - Kensington Palace, London, England - Windsor Castle, Windsor, England - Palace of the Winds, Jaipur, India - Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy -Vatican, Rome, Italy - Doges Palace, Venice, Italy - Coronation Palace, Kyoto, Japan - Presidential Palace, Havana, Cuba - Royal Palace, Fez, Morocco - Royal Palace, The Hague, Holland - Hellbrunn Palace, Salzburg, Austria - Belvedere Palace, Vienna, Austria - Kremlin, Moscow, Russia - Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia - Drottningholm, Stockholm, Sweden - Alhambra, Granada, Spain - Alcazar, Toledo, Spain - Sultans Palace, Zanzibar, Tanzania - Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet - Hradcin, Prague, Czech Republic - Eszterhaza, Fertod, Hungary - Hearst Castle, San Simeon, USA
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- PublisherPrestel
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 3791329146
- ISBN 13 9783791329147
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages128
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