Detail InformationEdit Asociación Bet-El is a sephardic orthodox synagogue in the city of Caracas that is affiliated to the Israelite Association of Venezuela. The synagogue was built between 1969 and 1973, with donations from Brazilian banker Edmond Safra, and is located in the Caracas neighborhood of San Bernardino. Currently, the community is made up mostly […]

Stockholm is the capital, financial centre and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia.Stockholm is located on Sweden’s south-central east coast, where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea. The central parts of the city consist of fourteen islands that are continuous with the Stockholm archipelago. Stockholm is the […]

The village of Beattock is located in the southern lowlands of Scotland, and lies within the administrative area of Dumfries and Galloway. It is surrounded by the parish of Kirkpatrick Juxta. It was an important stabling point for horses in the olden days with a coach house at one end of the village. It also […]

Detail InformationEdit San Gaetano, also known as Santi Michele e Gaetano is a Baroque church in Florence, Italy, located on the Piazza Antinori. The church was built for the Theatine order, who obtained funding from the noble families in Florence, including the Medicis. Cardinal Carlo de’ Medici was particularly concerned with the work, and his […]

Detail InformationEdit Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens in Rome, Italy, formerly belonging to the Torlonia family. It is entered from via Nomentana. It was designed by the neo-Classic architect Giuseppe Valadier. Construction began in 1806 for the banker Giovanni Torlonia (1756–1829) and was finished by his son Alessandro (1800–1880). Disused for a […]

Detail InformationEdit Palazzo Marino is a 16th century Palace located in Piazza della Scala, in the centre of Milan, Italy. It has been Milan’s city hall since 9 September 1861. It borders on Piazza San Fedele, Piazza della Scala, Via Case Rotte and Via Tommaso Marino. The palace was built for, and is named after, […]

Detail InformationEdit The Villa Farnesina is a Renaissance suburban villa in the Via della Lungara, in the district of Trastevere in Rome, central Italy. The villa was built for Agostino Chigi, a rich Sienese banker and the treasurer of Pope Julius II. Between 1506–1510, the Sienese artist and pupil of Bramante, Baldassarre Peruzzi, aided by […]

Detail InformationEdit Palazzo Spini Ferroni is a building in Piazza Santa Trinita, Florence, Italy, the grandest private medieval house-Palace in the city. The palace was built from 1289 for the rich cloth merchant and banker Geri Spini, on the lands he had bought from the monks of Santa Trinita after the 1288 flood of the […]

Detail InformationEdit Villa Carlotta is a villa in Northern Italy on Lake Como. It was built for the Milanese marquis Giorgio Clerici in 1690 and extends over a 70,000 m sq (17 acres) area in Tremezzo, facing the Bellagio peninsula. An Italian Garden, with steps, fountains and sculptures was laid out at the same time. […]

Detail InformationEdit Palazzo Panciatichi or Palazzo del Balì is a medieval building in Pistoia, Tuscany, central Italy. It was begun in 1320 by Vinciguerra Panciatichi, a rich Ghibelline (later Guelph) banker, as a fortified private residence. It has a stone facade with three floors (the lower with arches) ending with a large Renaissance gutter. Of […]