Orto Botanico di Roma "La Sapiensa" was created in 1883, but a part of the present 12 ha garden used to be the private garden of Palazzo Corsini, from ... read more
Rosendal Palace, located at the Djurgården hunting park, was built in the 1820s for King Karl Johan, the first Bernadotte. The palace stands today largely as it did in ... read more
The Royal Observatory Greenwich is the historic site of British astronomy, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and the world-famous Meridian Line. Managed as part of the National ... read more
Royal Palace museum Capodimonte, now a museum, was one of the two Royal palaces in Naples. It was a summer palace, hunting lodge and residence for the Kings of Two ... read more
Royal Palace of Caserta, is one of the largest royal residences in the world and is surrounded by a 120 ha baroque park, with formal vistas, fountains and cascades. The ... read more
Sanssouci was built (1745-1747) for Frederick the Great as a place to relax and enjoy a (relative) simple life, without worries, "sans soucis". The villa-like ... read more
Schloss Eremitage Waghaeusel is a baroque castle and former hunting lodge for the prince-bishops of Speyer, built 1724 -1729 by Michael Ludwig Rohrer. Today, castle and ... read more
The Tiergarten Schönbrunn, or "Vienna Zoo", was founded in 1752 as an imperial menagerie, and is the oldest operating zoo in the world. It is located on the ... read more
Stupinigi Palace is a former hunting lodge and residence of the House of Savoy, and presently house the Museo di Arte e Ammobiliamento, a museum of the arts and ... read more
Tiefurt House (41 ha)were transformed from a simple house into a small stately home, surrounded by an English landscape park, by Prince Friedrich Ferdinand Constantin ... read more
