The same could have been said, though, about Sir Christopher Wren, whose 51 churches, and landmarks like Kensington Palace and Greenwich Naval Hospital, dominated the city after the Great Fire of London.
For years this was considered the poorest part of Florence, worth visiting only for attractions like the Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens.
"Like a huge palace or building or a huge temple, it would have had many rooms in there, multilayered rooms so you have rooms for people living, and you would also had several tombs in there of the people who lived in this area here, " Morris told 7NewsBelize.
But they also contain scores of swanky shops selling saris and other Indian-made merchandise as well as trendy restaurants like the vegetarian thali palace Rajdahni.
And not just his home: Puig i Cadafalch's Casaramona textile plant - now the CaixaForum museum of contemporary art - looks more like some extravagant fortified palace.
Known for its friendly service and immaculately maintained surroundings, Mayan Palace Acapulco is like a good book you can't put down.
With many of the city's finest table, like Man Wah and Summer Palace, housed in five-star hotels, Chinese chefs regularly rub shoulders with top toques from Europe and America.
Like the Forth Bridge, the Palace of Westminster, with its cast iron Victorian roofs, its Neolithic heating systems and endless need for maintenance and repair will be crawling with builders and craftsmen rather than politicians - the institution it houses, though, is in unexpectedly good order.
Duchess Kate herself is being branded (and is branding herself) like no one before her at Buckingham Palace.
The ornate plaster ceiling of a room, designed to look like the interior of an imperial Chinese palace, was covered by multiple coats of paint, forming a deposit more than a centimeter thick.
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Indeed, just hours after his would-be assassin had been wrestled to the ground, the French head of state was hosting a garden party for the public, on a packed Elysee Palace lawn, grabbing the microphone like a seasoned compere.
Far from a movie palace, the Teaneck Theatre was more like a movie cottage, but it's where I learned to love movies, and now it is no more.
The Nine embarked upon a programme of urban renewal, adorning their new cathedral, building the city's civic palace, the vast piazza that spreads like a scallop shell before it, and the palatial hospital that still functioned in recent times.
With her black hair lying against her pale white face, she looked like a queen who dwelled within a secluded, innermost palace, behind layer upon layer of thick curtains.
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And so they chanted slogans like Turkey is secular, it will remain secular, and they said things like no Mullahs, meaning Muslim religious leaders in the presidential palace.
The festival's theme this year is "under the sea, " and the organizers planned nautical touches to the palace, such as an octopus ice sculpture and a throne shaped like a scallop shell.
By the time Bridge arrived at the Frick mansion, a modern-day palace that its owner had vowed would make Carnegie's place look like a hovel, Bridge would have been beside himself, not only wondering as to the contents of the message he carried, but fearing the response of the man to whom it was addressed.
Barth and Mustique (particularly when there are homes like Shogun -- set alone on a cloistered estate and reminiscent of a Japanese imperial palace, koi pond included)?
As St Paul's - and the wider church - had in recent days appeared like a rudderless ship battered by storms beyond its control - there was silence from Lambeth Palace.
If you grow tired of French fare, the plush, popular Shang Palace at the new Shangri-La hotel offers a high-end take on Cantonese favourites like sweet pork buns or Peking duck, and recently earned a Michelin star.
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