The house is built around the kitchen of Holdenby Palace, built in 1583, the largest private house of its time, to impress Elizabeth I. In 1647 it was the prison of Charles I for 5 months prior to his removal for execution.
Fisher Island, home of the rich and famous. For example Boris Becker, Paul Newman, Demi Moore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jack Nicholson and others have appartments or villas here. FI can only be arrived with ferry, yacht or Helicopter.
The Palacio Real de Aranjuez is a residence of the King of Spain. It was commissioned by Philip II and designed by Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera, who also designed El Escorial.
Zoom out a bit and see the huge gardens surrounding the Palace.
In 1749 Johann W. von Goethe was born in this small building in the city of Frankfurt. Goethe was one of the paramount figures of German literature and European Neo-Classicism.
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Goethe, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
(28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German novelist, dramatist, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and for ten years chief minister of state at ...
Villa Principe Leopoldo, perched atop the fabled "Golden Hill" which dominates the city of Lugano, is named after Prince Frederic Leopold of Prussia, a distinguished cavalry general and member of the German Hohenzollern Dynasty, which ascended the throne of Prussia with Frederic William in 1701 and then became first rulers of the new German empire on its creation on 1871.
In 1989 Erik and Lyle Menendez shot their parents at this address. The heartbroken kids eased their suffering by buying among other things a resturant, new Porsche and Carribean cruise. Finally arrested they said they had been abused as kiddies by their parents, this didn't wash with the jury and both are doing life with no parole.
Former President (South African) De Klerk's wife lived in this block of beachfront apartments after they divorced. It's where she was murdered by a security guard.
I once had a sugar-daddy who lived in this same block... but that's a whole other story!
Futuristic house built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1924. Used by Hollywood as the setting for movies like Blade Runner, House on Haunted Hill and Black Rain.
NOTE: Andrea_s sent the correct placemark 16th Nov 2005
Million-dollar homes are nothing unusual in the SF Bay Area, but this set of ten- and twenty-million dollar spreads, replete with pools, tennis courts, guest houses, you-name-it, seems to stand out. Enjoy the view, but don't look for too long, you'll probably get arrested for loitering....
