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 | This is from a post on Village of Joy, with link provided in the folder. The buildings are in the folder in the same order as on their website. Only one is entirely missing as it was only listed as being "in the Alps" which is a large enough search area that I'm still looking. |  | 12/05/2008 | 2,512 | 
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 | A good list (but not all inclusive) of MANY Astronomical and Radio Observatories in California, with links and webcam links to many. EXCLUDED were private and some club observatories for security reasons. Please feel free to contact me to ADD a site to the list -- will keep it updated. | | 11/21/2008 | 718 |
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 | Gala ritual palace(soviet-style wedding palace)in Tbilisi is a unique design architecture.It is a place which people get Soviet marriage. |  | 11/14/2008 | 100 |
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 | Villa d'Este and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli, Italy. Especially the first one is a real must if you start getting bored by all the stones and museums in Roma: It's just a one hour trip by train to Tivoli, and the Villa d'Este has a park easily outplaying even the park of Sansouci in Potsdam, Germany. It was elected the "nicest park in Europe" in 2006 - and it truly is! Even if you hardly find it... | | 11/14/2008 | 122 |
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 | Fort George was built on a barren spit of land jutting out into the Moray Firth, north-east of Inverness. It is the largest artillery fortification in Britain and was created after the Jacobite Uprising in 1745, when Prince Charles Edward Stuart nearly toppled the Hanoverian King George II. Determined that such a revolt should never succeed in the future, the mighty Fort George, with an elabora... | | 11/13/2008 | 1,121 |
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 | French Ambassy in Riyadh | | 10/25/2008 | 94 |
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 | US Ambassy in Riyadh | | 10/25/2008 | 98 |
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 | Linderhof Palace, another of the fantasy castles/palaces built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linderhof | | 08/08/2008 | 283 |
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 | The red one (Schoof's Mill) was errected in 1921, the green on in 1856
Both had predecessors that were either destroyed by fire or by storm.
But there have been two mills in Greetsiel for at least 300 years | | 07/31/2008 | 1,778 |
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 | The Old lighthouse of Borkum was built in 1576 and is 45 meters high.
When it burned out in 1879, the New Lighthouse was errected in a record-breaking construction time of a half year. | | 07/18/2008 | 3,603 |
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 | The New Lighthouse of Borkum was built in 1879 and is 60,3 meters high.
Its open for visitors and there are 315 stairs to climb. | | 07/18/2008 | 650 |
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 | The Castle Neideck was first mentioned in 1219
It was one of the biggest German castle complexes in that time.
On September the 14th in 1347, the lord of the castle, Konrad von Schluesselberg, was killed by an enemy and teh castle was destoyed
Today it is one of the most familiar emblems of the Frankonian Switzerland | | 07/18/2008 | 184 |
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 | This is on of the few stone buildings that Seyyid Said found in 1829, on his arrival on Zanzibar. In 1832 Seyyid Said made Zanzibar the Capital city of Oman, settling there with his family and followers. His aim was to transform Zanzibar into a major trading centre for countries around the world. This move was partly influenced by the fact that Zanzibar's coral reefs offered a natural protectio... | | 07/16/2008 | 547 |
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 | This file contains 404 castles found in the Netherlands.
If I have missed one, or have a remark, leave a comment :) | | 07/04/2008 | 895 |
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 | XVIth century castle. The powerful feudal building of the XIIIth is marked by the architectural styles of various centuries : XIVth, XVth and XVIth. Built according to a plan in quadrangle, a massive keep of the XIIIth, reshaped in XVth and bristled of machicolation, a XVth hexagonal tower of staircase and an overhanging watchtower come to strengthen a facade of the XVIth inspired by the Italia... |  | 06/23/2008 | 170 |
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 | The castle of Montfort, situated on the municipality of Vitrac overhangs the Dordogne and, as for the castle of Beynac, the sight is better of the very river where from we can appreciate the overhang on which stands this fortress. This magnificent castle which dominates Montfort bluff sits down literally on a rocky projection every nook of which it follows.
It was besieged and de... | | 06/23/2008 | 165 |
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 | XVth, XVIth, XVIIth castle. The castle is formed by several main buildings connected with round towers and a big keep, the whole is crowned with machicolation and with covered patrol ways.
On January 8th, 1358, the castle was taken by the English. Afterward, it became the headquarters of the catholic strengths steered by the "captain Puymartin", Raymond de Saint-Clar, ... | | 06/23/2008 | 142 |
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 | This XVth century castle situated on the municipality of Tursac, has been modified in XVIIIth century.
It contains towers with crenellations and machicolation, a XVIIIth century dovecote with its two attached buildings, terrace with its breast walls and the remnants of a XVIth century convent.
Outbuildings are bounding the front-yard and a neo-Gothic building is at... | | 06/23/2008 | 196 |
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 | XVIth castle, It is doubtless the most attractive castle of Renaissance style of Perigord. It possesses all the characteristics of it : clear building, large bays abundantly decorated, towers covered with slates, fireplaces finely sculptured and delicately chiselled machicolations. A three-storeyed main building separates a big circular feudal tower attached to an small octagonal turret of st... | | 06/23/2008 | 103 |
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 | The noble and ancient family of Lambertye (Lambertie) gave its name to a considerable castle located in the municipality of Miallet. The first castle was built in the XIIIth century and the actual one is from XVth and XVIth.It was the object of an important restoration in the XIXth.
Rebuilt three times, it was burned first time by the English under Charles VI (1380-1422), second... | | 06/22/2008 | 255 |
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 | XVIth and XVIIth castle. The castle was completely reconstructed in a neogothic style following the fire of 1885 which ravaged it, with the exception of the tower of the "bookstore" where the oratory, the chamber and the library of the philosopher Montaigne were.
At the first floor of the tower, a chapel reminds that Montaigne was an ardent catholic. From his chamber, s... | | 06/22/2008 | 173 |
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 | The actual castle is from XVIth century.
Mareuil was one of four baronies of Perigord, what explains the very defensive character of the fortress. There was born the troubadour Arnaud de Mareuil. Demolished during the One hundred years war, arsoned during the religious wars, this castle was restored many times.
In the XVth, Geoffroi de Mareuil modifies the castle o... | | 06/22/2008 | 149 |
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 | XVth century castle, it was built by François d' Aydie by 1550.
Having "supernaturally" escaped the religious wars, the Sling(Revolt) and the Revolution, then the restorations of modern era, this castle is one of the Renaissance houses the most authentic of Perigord. It hesitates between the austerity of the military architecture (moats, covered way, arrow slits, crenel... | | 06/22/2008 | 137 |
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 | XVth castle - XIXth. Surrounded with formal gardens, this Renaissance castle is constituted by asymmetric lodging
houses decorated with sculptured gates and windows , as well as of turrets in corbelled construction putted on by
pepperpots. We can admire decorated with mouldings machicolations, terraces decorated with richly worked
balusters , attic windows there pediment... |  | 06/21/2008 | 219 |
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 | XVth and XVIth century castle, constructed from 1497 till 1604 on the bases of a ancient noble den which had justice rights on Antonne, Sarliac and Savignac-les-Eglises.
Although having undergone at least four sieges, during the religious wars then during the Sling(Revolt), this castle is well preserved.
This beautiful building of Renaissance style consists of an i... | | 06/21/2008 | 148 |
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