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 | Built in the the 13th century by the Escoussans, the Langoiran Castle hold an important strategic position during the Hundred Years War.
It was successively the home of the Albret and the Montferrand families until the 16th century. Residing place of Tuillaume d'Affis, President of the Parlement of Bordeaux at the beginning of the 17th century, it was dismantled during the Fronde. Classi... |  | 01/30/2006 | 149 | 
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 | Château de Malle is a classified historic monument and is an exquisite residence surrounded by magnificent Italian style gardens. Built at the beginning of the 17th Century by Jacques de Malle, descendant of an old Preignac family and President of the Parliament of Bordeaux, the Château has remained in the same family without ever changing hands. The estate enjoys, amongst other things, a privi... | | 01/30/2006 | 156 |
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 | Fiera Milano is a group of companies that not only manages fitted spaces of one of the biggest exhibition centers in the world, but even organizes shows and congresses and provides the full range of fair-related services for companies. | | 01/30/2006 | 144 |
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 | University (UCL) hospital in Brussels | | 01/30/2006 | 125 |
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 | The Fundació Mies van der Rohe
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe was set up in 1983 by the Barcelona City Hall with the initial purpose of reconstructing the German Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition. | | 01/29/2006 | 201 |
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 | Royal Library of Belgium, called "Albertine" and located near the centrum of Brussels. |  | 01/29/2006 | 112 |
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 | The biggest concert hall of Belgium. | | 01/28/2006 | 141 |
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 | Royal Opera of Belgium | | 01/28/2006 | 118 |
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 | This is Rungis, south of Paris, it is the biggest food market in the world, le "ventre de Paris" (Paris's belly) |  | 01/28/2006 | 148 |
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 | Strawberry Field was a children's home run by the Salvation Army at the time John Lennon played there as a child. He made it famous with the Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever". It is now a Salvation Army retreat called "The Boiler Room". | | 01/24/2006 | 358 |
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 | Opera situated in the centre of the city near the "old market", and Place Charles de Gaulle |  | 01/24/2006 | 141 |
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 | The Empress State Building is a West London landmark. It was constructed in the 1960s, and at 100 meters tall it ranks among the 20 tallest buildings in Britain. |  | 01/21/2006 | 189 |
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 | Radio-TV Serbia (RTS) buildings bombed by NATO on April 23, 1999 in action against Slobodan Milosevic's government. | | 01/16/2006 | 268 |
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 | First opened as “The People’s Palace” in 1873, the first public television transmissions were made from here in 1936 by the BBC. Alexandra Palace once had its own railway line and race course. | | 01/16/2006 | 174 |
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 | Built in 1625 by architect Villedo for Chrétien de Lamoignon ; The west end of the same style was built around 1675 as well as the outbuildings for his son Chrétien-François de Lamoignon. | | 01/16/2006 | 135 |
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 | The Seigniory of Sceaux appears for the first time in the historical documents at the XVth century. The Potier family of Gesvres build a castle in 1597. Jean-Baptiste Colbert buys the field in 1670 and increases it considerably. Then, with the major artists of the time, André Ours, the Claude brothers and Charles Perrault, Antoine Lepautre, Charles Le Brun, François Girardon and Antoine Coysevo... | | 01/16/2006 | 163 |
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 | Fontenay castle built in XVIIth century was pulled down and rebuilt in 1854. It was bought in 1937 by the RATP joint production committee under the leadership of the CGT trade union. | | 01/16/2006 | 162 |
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 | Breteuil Castle has remained the property of the same family since it was built between 1604 and 1610. Previously, the same site was occupied by Gallo-Roman villas and later by a medieval fortress, of which only the dovecote tour remains. The Breteuil family closely served the kings of France throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. The ground floor, used at the present time for receptions, is ... | | 01/16/2006 | 174 |
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 | Situated about fifteen kilometres west of Paris, the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye was originally a royal residence. Louis VI the Fat built the first castle there in 1124, Saint Louis had a chapel built in the thirteenth century and Louis XIV was born there. In 1862, Napoleon III decided to restore the castle and use it for the national archaeological collections. Renovated by Malraux, it no... |  | 01/16/2006 | 169 |
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 | This castle was owned by Maurice Hermann, Comte de Saxe and Maréchal de France in 1748. Numerous memories of this great man remains in the galleries and specially battle and games scenes by Chevalier from designs by La Touche.
It was finally owned by Baron Gourgaud after Napoleon's death.
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 | Built in 1597 by Henri IV's Financial superintendant Nicolas de harlay, THis castle was owned afterwards under the reign of Louis XIII by Charles de Valois Which finalized the actual design.
After the french revolution it was owned by Barras, one the the Directoire's leaders and at last by Maréchal Berthier who gave the castle his napoleonian touch.
It's now a great equestrian cen... | | 01/16/2006 | 152 |
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 | Alexandre Dumas' House
Thanks to the success of the Three Musketeers (les Trois Mousquetaires), Alexandre Dumas builds his small romantic castle (a "folie" as usually said for this kind of building) in the close countryside which borders Paris in 1847. It will be known as the Castle of Monte-Cristo and is located at Port-Marly. This eccentric residence was built in a ... | | 01/16/2006 | 187 |
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 | The fortress of Gisors is primarily famous for its bonds with the history of Templiers. Entrusted to the guard of the latter by the king of France Louis VII of 1158 to 1160, it became also the prison of the last main head of the Order, Jacques de Molay, in 1314. What to form a legend! | | 01/16/2006 | 124 |
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 | Built in 1646, Maisons-Laffitte castle is the work of the distinguished architect François Mansart. A perfect example of the French classical style of architecture with characteristic decor and main staircase, it comprises the King's apartments, the 17th century mirroded room, the Comte d'Artois' dining room designed by Bélanger, and the bed chambers of Marechal Lannes and Jacques Laffitte.
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 | Built in XVIIth century, The old castle was pulled down in 1764 and a new one was erected and doubled in size at the same place in 1782.
This new castle was pulled down again at the end of XIXth century and the place was forgotten for a while.
It then revived when a 3rd castle was built just nearby in 1849 for duke of Uzés by architects Froelicher and Clément Parent. This new plac... | | 01/15/2006 | 172 |
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