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 | Caversham Park, Reading, Berskshire.
A bit of its history here:
http://www.southernlife.org.uk/berks/caversham_park.htm |  | 01/22/2006 | 98 | 
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 | Driving test place in seoul. |  | 01/21/2006 | 102 |
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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 | 134 |
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 | BBC Pebble Mill was opened in 1971 and contained both TV and radio studios. It was home for many years of the long-running radio soap "The Archers". Pebble Mill was closed and demolished in 2004 and is expected to be converted into a business park. | | 01/20/2006 | 148 |
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 | Castell Coch (Red Castle in Welsh) was designed by William Burges for the 3rd Marquis of Bute.
It was built upon the remains of a genuine 13th century castle, overlooking the River Taff . It is visible from the M4 motorway and it often illuminated at night.
Completed in 1891.
It has an authentic medieval look to the exterior with a working portcull... |  | 01/20/2006 | 191 |
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 | The National Palace of Culture - the most prominent building and most famous sight in Sofia, Bulgaria. NPC, located in Sofia, Bulgaria, is one of the largest multifunctional congress centres in Southeastern Europe. It was opened in 1981 and its main hall has 5,000 seats. | | 01/16/2006 | 145 |
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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 | 190 |
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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 | 119 |
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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 | 98 |
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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 | 115 |
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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 | 119 |
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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 | 132 |
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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 | 121 |
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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 | 103 |
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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 | 133 |
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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 | 88 |
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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 | 130 |
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 | This is the famous column called "le Monument aux Girondins", located in Bordeaux, France. One of the most famous touristic places of this south-west French city, capital of wine. | | 01/15/2006 | 118 |
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 | The Italian renaissance-style Château de Ferrières was built between 1855 and 1859 under the aegis of Baron James de Rothschild, in order to exhibit invaluable collections of works of art and to serve as the setting for sumptuous feasts.
It is surrounded by 125-hectare grounds regarded as one of France's finest English-style gardens, where rare species of plant, lawns and water features... | | 01/15/2006 | 123 |
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 | The castle was built in 1883, for M. Bragas, a Parisian banker, in the so-called Néo-Renaissance style, where there was in the past a medieval building.
The castle, owned by the Breteuil family at the end of the 19th century, was rented from 1946 by a dutch association in order to create a permanent education center. The initial aim of the center was to train dutch farmers who wished to ... | | 01/15/2006 | 90 |
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 | Situated 35 km South-West of Paris, between Versailles and Rambouillet, Dampierre Castle is certainly one of the main jewels in the listed Vallée de Chevreuse.
Set deep in the valley ,the present château takes on the exact shape of the landscape. As in Versailles, the transition is adjusted between Nature and Man's work.
This classical chateau was built by Jules Hardouin Mansart f... | | 01/15/2006 | 110 |
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 | The Marais site used to belong to Sully, Henri IV's great counsellor, who lived in the somptuous Hurault mansion castle (only staves and dunjeon still exist nowadays).
The duchess of Talleyrand bought the Marais Chateau in 1899 from the duchess of Noailles. After the German occupation, she has begun to restore the Marais chateau.
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 | About thirty kilometers southern Paris, nested in a magnificent park, stays the castle of Courson-Monteloup.
The castle is perfectly integrated in the park landscape, designed at the origin between the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries by the famous landscape gardener Louis-Martin Berthault, then restyled by the brothers Denys et Eugêne Bühler and finally by Ernest de Caraman during the XXth c... | | 01/15/2006 | 106 |
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