The bustling Orchha Fort complex, home to several palaces and monuments, was established by King Rudrapratap Singh in 1501.
All this provides them is free entry to historic palaces and city parks, discount care at veterans' hospitals and money for funeral costs.
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.
It's not likely to happen (we don't have enough palaces to meet the demand for them at that kind of price) but it makes the point.
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.
The activities of these practitioners also extend to the maintenance, repair and reconstruction of historic buildings, ranging from traditional Korean houses to monumental wooden palaces and temples.
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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The Civil List, which dates from 1760, and the grants paid for travel and upkeep of palaces are to be replaced by a single Sovereign Grant from 2013.
Not long ago, these multibillion-dollar computing palaces were built to the same spec for decades.
More than 6, 000 mentally unstable people have persistently visited royal palaces or written to the Royal Family over the past six years, according to a police report.
Bombastic mini-palaces here stand adjacent to darkly Gothic vaults.
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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.
Mountains, parks and 16th century palaces are in stark contrast to the neon and noise of the city's shopping and entertainment areas.
For centuries, silver-bearded turbaned craftsmen from Fez and Meknes had been coming to work in the ancient mosques and palaces of Marrakech, instructing sloe-eyed youths in their arts.
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.
It is the gateway to a state of amber forts and lake palaces that attracts about 10% of India's foreign tourists.
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"Putting all of the London airports together in one monopoly leads to high charges and the construction of marble palaces, " he told the newspaper.
All designs are custom, but there are deep archives of patterns used by Italian nobility that have served as inspiration for A-list designers doing homes from London to Los Angeles, as well as royal palaces in Sweden and Denmark and the Kremlin.
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The real estate development was to include 100 villas, 75 mansions, 22 palaces, a 360, 000-square-foot hotel, a golf academy and luxury shops.
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Certainly it takes a few visits, or one very long one, to make your way through the ornate forts and palaces of Northern Rajasthan, luxuriously tented Ranthambore tiger safaris and colonial splendor of urban Mumbai.
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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.
Al Alousi went on to create public sculptures and some that were placed in presidential palaces.
There was much fanciful speculation that he had been raised by wolves - or perhaps bears - and this was why he ate with his hands, disliked wearing clothes and could not be taught to speak, says Lucy Worsley, curator of Historic Royal Palaces.
He developed close ties to the royal family, winning the contracts to build some of Saudi Arabia's most prized mosques and palaces.
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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Visitors to the hallways of the company's purple and yellow California palaces are greeted with confused employees and empty cubicles depopulated by an endless series of reorganization efforts.
Until the French Revolution, there were few opportunities to see old-master paintings outside sale-rooms, churches, palaces and private houses.
Dera Nawab Sahib is now a dead city, with its grandiose palaces and impressive fortresses, now lying vacant, decaying due to neglect.
In Rome, some 170 private palaces, academies, homes and other buildings will open their doors to visitors.
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