But even if they do get into the palaces, they may not find anything.
Explore the palaces and monasteries of the Sacred City of Polonnaruwa, and wander the mural-filled cave monastery of Dambulla.
Mr. Maliki's aides have given conflicting signals over whether any of the palaces on the compound would be used by the prime minister.
Add on another week if you plan on visiting the Golden Ring towns, the palaces around St Petersburg, and Novgorod, where it's best to stay at least one night.
He said the palaces at what later became Camp Victory were initially conceived as the nucleus for a new administrative capital for the regime, but later morphed into guest houses for visiting dignitaries.
There is magnificent Mehrangarh looming large over sea-blue Jodhpur, the golden sandcastle at Jaisalmer, the palaces of Udaipur, Pushkar's reverent yet carnival charm, the storybook whimsy of Bundi and the painted havelis (ornately decorated residences) sprinkled through Shekhawati.
The richly coloured damask-covered walls do evoke the palaces for which many of the pictures were intended, but those palace rooms would have been furnished with mirrors and gilded console tables and the pictures hung in tiers.
Set on a 32-acre estate, the palace was designed in 1894 by a British architect, William Ward Marret, who employed an idiosyncratic combination of Renaissance and baroque styles to create an immense structure that was clearly intended to rival the palaces of European royalty.
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Its social elite commissioned Paris' finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited.
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The 3D animations based on the simulation will eventually be made available to tourists to prepare them for their visit to the Colosseum, the Forum, or the imperial palaces on the Palatine.
For the third installment in our annual series on the priciest palaces for sale in the United States, we turned our attentions to the middle of the country. (We've already ranked the ten priciest in the country and the most expensive in the Northeast and the South.) Our findings?
In the Nasrid Palaces, a palace complex within the palace complex, the combination of building materials (wood, stone, ceramics and plaster) with traditional Islamic forms (intricate calligraphy, stuccoed ceilings and interwoven geometric patterns) reaches a point close to perfection.
Successful measures have been taken to remove the threat to the brilliant palaces, mosques and gardens of Lahore, according to the World Heritage Committee which inscribed this outstanding testimony of Mughal civilization on the World Heritage List in 1981.
When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, the German invaders occupied the aristocratic palaces in Kracow and confiscated thousands of priceless paintings.
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But a spokeswoman for the Historic Royal Palaces, which is responsible for the Tower's conservation, said it was not related to the collapse on 14 February.
In other cases, like that of Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski-Borbon, a descendant of Polish royalty now living in London, Nazi German occupation meant the loss of their former palaces and the works of art inside them.
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Once you have finished exploring the forts and palaces, take some time to relax at the exquisite Kaya Kalp, a 99, 000sqft spa located in the ITC Mughal hotel, which takes guests on a sensorial journey back to an era of excess and conquest.
The Sultan of Brunei stays in palaces all the time and has many that would put Lim's to shame.
"Putting all of the London airports together in one monopoly leads to high charges and the construction of marble palaces, " he told the newspaper.
Ms Weir opens vividly with descriptions of the splendours of royal palaces and ceremonies, sumptuously illustrated from the Household Ordinances and accounts, records of tournaments and the dispatches of ambassadors.
The likes of Cartier and indeed McDonald's have glitter, but the once gorgeous palaces are shabby.
It seeks to introduce visitors to ancient Han ideas about immortality and to explain what life was like at the Han courts, which the tomb-palaces mirror.
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The ultimate is Hampi, once the capital of the rich, powerful Vijayanagar empire and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site: 16 miles of ruined temples and palaces from the 14th century.
Next, I went to the Trustee's Theater, one of those restored movie palaces, for the sold-out performance of the energetic octogenarian jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal.
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The last parking lot for floating palaces that got approval to be built, the Gold Coast Marina, opened in 1993, and now the city's eight marinas are filled to capacity.
The properties range from 1, 000-year-old fortress ruins to elegant palaces built around the turn of the last century, which were typically occupied by German nobility who oversaw small kingdoms or territories.
The company envisages a future where vast, flying palaces or cruise ships in the skies offer free flights, funded by casinos or restaurant earnings onboard.
Soon, King was off the sidewalk playing inside the clubs, blues palaces like Club Ebony.
Real's Santiago Bernabeu stadium was one of the first grand soccer palaces when it opened in 1947.
Many other Hussein-era palaces around the country once occupied by the U.S. military have already been handed to the Iraqi side.
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