Instead he parked up at nearby Wellington Barracks, a short distance from the palace.
Salehi was released later that day, after Karzai sent a car from the palace to pick him up.
That was, rightly, interpreted then as an expression of disquiet from the Palace at prevailing circumstances in Scotland.
The Mall leads from the palace to Trafalgar Square , where the towering Nelson's Column is flanked by huge bronze lions.
It is a replica of a statue from the palace of the Sumerian king Sargon that is now housed at the Louvre.
WSJ: The Ur-Metropolis | Uruk | Pergamon Museum | By A.J. Goldmann
She stays in Hanumant colony, a residential area barely half a kilometre away from the palace, where Ms Hurley and her new husband will get married Indian-style on Friday evening.
BBC: NEWS | South Asia | Opulent weddings and grinding poverty
Users keen on the Tudors can nip from the palace at Hampton Court to a 1560 map of Civitas Londinium, and learn about Thomas Cromwell against the music of madrigals.
Across town, just below the magnificent Mehrangarh Fort, the maharaja's cousins Nikhilendra and Dhananajaya Singh opened a hotel at the end of 2009 that couldn't be more different from the palace.
On Wednesday, Lady Thatcher's coffin will travel by hearse from the Palace of Westminster to the Church of St Clement Danes - the Central Church of the RAF - on the Strand.
To get there, cycle from the palace down the Avenue de Trianon until hitting Avenue Petit Trianon to enter near the Petit Trianon, a small chateau also frequently used by the queen.
The market gradually migrated from the royal palace to the bourgeois parlor, and the center of production moved from Switzerland to France.
The report was met with silence from the Elysee Palace, the French president's office, which did not respond to requests for comment.
Thonburi, west of the Chao Praya River and directly across from the Grand Palace, was the first area of Bangkok to be settled.
Earlier this year several hundred homeless temporary workers set up a tent village in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo, across from the labour ministry and a few blocks from the Imperial Palace.
Across the Champ de Mars from the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince is -or was - a tall statue to the maroons, the runaway slaves who are the symbol of Haiti's fight for independence at the end of the 18th century.
Traditionally, social provision in Brazil has been by means of grand schemes run (badly) from the presidential palace.
ECONOMIST: Defeats and victories in Brazil’s war on poverty | The
One day at the sprawling camp across from the National Palace, a neatly dressed man with piercing hazel eyes grabbed my hand.
WSJ: Ben Fountain on Haiti After the Earthquake | Traveler's Tale
The home had been a former silent film studio, and Mr. Duquette had installed a throne from the Chapultepec Palace in Mexico City.
In 1986, after being airlifted from the presidential palace the previous day, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and an entourage of about 90 fled the country to Guam.
"French military forces have brought their support to the Malian forces this afternoon to fight against these terrorist elements, " said Hollande, speaking from the Elysee Palace in Paris.
French President Francois Hollande offered his condolences to the families of the victims and expressed France's "complete solidarity with the American authorities and people", in a statement from the Elysee Palace.
Four Seasons is also opening a new hotel later this year, two doors down from the Ciragan Palace Kempinski on the Bosporus--a boat is planned to connect the locations so guests can split visits.
It was during that visit that the world saw how frail Benedict had become in the three weeks since his emotional departure from the Apostolic Palace: Always a man with a purposeful walk, he shuffled tentatively that day, using his cane.
Beatrix's reign began in difficult economic times and there were riots in Amsterdam at her inauguration, as thousands of demonstrators protesting the city's housing shortages fought pitched battles with police just a few hundred meters (yards) from the downtown palace where she was crowned.
So it was that when a handful of bankers from Lehman Brothers met executives of Marubeni, one of Japan's largest trading houses, at Marubeni's headquarters across from the Imperial Palace last autumn, they never suspected that they were actually being drawn into a massive fraud.
The only perp walk we've seen in Britain has been the giving of evidence to the Treasury select committee (Barclays' Bob Diamond's likely to be taking it the week after next) or the letter from Buckingham Palace to the banker formerly known as Sir Fred Goodwin.
The winger, on loan from Southampton, rifled in the opener from just inside the area after Palace failed to clear Josh McQuoid's header.
Officials say they are expecting thousands of people to line the streets from the airport to the royal palace when his coffin arrives in the capital, Phnom Penh, on Wednesday.
The day kicks off with the splendour of the sovereign's procession from Buckingham Palace to the Lords which delights tourists, but which pitches the capital's traffic system into chaos for the rest of the day.
This was the portal through which Chinese emperors emerged from their palace, the Forbidden City, to meet the people.
应用推荐