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Elegant photography and enthralling background lore make this survey of more than fifty palaces on five continents a fascinating treat for lovers of architecture, world travel, and history alike.In his newest addition to Prestel's popular Changed the World series, colorful, doublepage spreads focus on the world' s most intriguing palaces to offer important architectural detail, historical background, photographs, maps, and absorbing anecdotes about the people and events that enrich theses palaces and assure their place in history. From Versailles, Windsor Castle, and the Chateaux of the Loire to Hearst's San Simeon, the Palace of the Winds in India and the Acheillion in Greece, to other glorious palaces in Egypt, Cuba and Japan, readers can learn what life was like inside these imposing walls, as well as the incidents of undaunted courage, villainous treachery, pivotal alliances, and glittering celebrations that changed the world outside those walls forever.Featured Palaces include:Imperial Palace, Peking, China Nymphenburg, Munich, Germany Sanssouci, Potsdam, Germany Chateau Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France Chambord, Loire, France Louvre, Paris, France Royal Palace, Versailles, France Achilleion, Corfu, Greece Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland Buckingham Palace, London, England Hampton Court Palace, London, England Kensington Palace, London, England Windsor Castle, Windsor, England Palace of the Winds, Jaipur, India Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy Vatican, Rome, Italy Doges Palace, Venice, Italy Coronation Palace, Kyoto, Japan Presidential Palace, Havana, Cuba Royal Palace, Fez, Morocco Royal Palace, The Hague, Holland Hellbrunn Palace, Salzburg, Austria Belvedere Palace, Vienna, Austria Kremlin, Moscow, Russia Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia Drottningholm, Stockholm, Sweden Alhambra, Granada, Spain Alcazar, Toledo, Spain Sultans Palace, Zanzibar, Tanzania Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet Hradcin, Prague, Czech Republic Eszterhaza, Fertod, Hungary Hearst Castle, San Simeon, USA
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