San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 49 Km from Madrid by road, is one of the former royal residences which was built in there by King Felipe II.
Magnificently decorated Chehel Sotun Palace (1590) is located in a beautiful park. Eighteen columns of the terrace of the palace hold the wooden richly ornamented ceiling
The Conciergerie, a splendid Gothic palace, is a former royal palace and prison in Paris. Hundreds of prisoners during the Reign of Terror were taken from La Conciergerie to be executed on the Guillotine
The Palace of Versailles is famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy - it was the centre of political power in France from 1682 until the beginning of French Revolution
Today Palais-Royal is closed for visitors - it houses the Constitutional Council and the Ministry of Culture, but tourists can admire the garden with unusual sculptures
Sultans Palace on the European side of the Bosphorus. Values: presented by Queen Victoria five-ton chandelier of Bohemian glass and the collection of paintings by Aivazovsky
This Padishah palace like a piece of the world from 1001-nights fairy tales. From here the Ottoman sultans ruled for centuries
The Gatchina Palace was built by architect Antonio Rinaldi (1766-1781). It is the only one of country side palaces of St. Petersburg built in chateau-castle style
Hellbrunn Palace was built in the early XVII century as a summer residence of the Archbishop Markus Sittikus. Halls of the palace are richly decorated and furnished
Kichkine palace was built in 1908-1911th and on the whole seaside nothing could be compared with this Eastern fairy-tale
Excursion to the Livadiya Palace introduces two moments of history: life of the royal family in the beginning of XX cent. and the course of the Crimean Conference of 1945
Manor of princes Gagarins (Ukraine)
Manor of princes Gagarins (1907) is a nice little palace with narrow windows, fortified towers at the corners and a peaked red roof – a pseudo-Gothic castle
Holydays in Yalta will not be complete without a visit to one of the finest architectural monuments of the Crimea - Massandra palace, built in a secluded area of the Upper Massandra for the Emperor Alexander III
Palace "Dulber" is a masterpiece of "oriental crimean" style. The building has more than one hundred rooms
The Vorontsov Palace was built in 16th century's English architectural, so-called Tudor style, enriched with elements of Moresque architecture
Yusupov Palace in Koreiz (Ukraine)
The Yusupov Palace in Koreiz was built by the architect Krasnov in neoromantic style with elements of Italian Renascence for one of the most famous aristocratic dynasties of Russia – the Yusupovs
Linderhof Palace (1870-1878) was built by architect George Dolman in harsh mountain landscape environment. Decoration of the palace will surprise any traveler
Municipal house (Czech Republic)
The building of the Municipal House (1912) is a brilliant example of Art Nouveau style in architecture of Prague
Winter Palace of Bogd Khaan (Mongolia)
The Winter Palace of Bogd Khaan is the most interesting and visited museum of Ulaanbaatar. It was built in 1903 and belonged to the last Mongolian monarch Bogd Khaan VIII
