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 | Zeeland district enclosure (to be added to Netherlands enclosures file) |  | 01/30/2006 | 210 | 
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 | Zeeland district enclosure (to be added to Netherlands enclosures file) |  | 01/30/2006 | 189 |
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 | Zeeland district enclosure (to be added to Netherlands enclosures file) | | 01/30/2006 | 134 |
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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 | 147 |
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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 | 154 |
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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 | 143 |
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 | University (UCL) hospital in Brussels | | 01/30/2006 | 124 |
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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 | 200 |
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 | Royal Library of Belgium, called "Albertine" and located near the centrum of Brussels. |  | 01/29/2006 | 109 |
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 | The biggest concert hall of Belgium. | | 01/28/2006 | 140 |
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 | Royal Opera of Belgium | | 01/28/2006 | 117 |
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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 | 146 |
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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 | 352 |
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 | Opera situated in the centre of the city near the "old market", and Place Charles de Gaulle |  | 01/24/2006 | 139 |
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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 | 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 | 188 |
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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 | 218 |
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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 | 228 |
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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 | 266 |
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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 | 171 |
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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 | 134 |
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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 | 161 |
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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 | 159 |
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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 | 173 |
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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 | 168 |
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