India /Uttarakhand /Chamoli /Badrinath Sight Address : Badrinath Temple, Badrinath Edit Detail InformationEdit Brahma Kapal can also be combined with other tourist attractions across the city. A flat platform on the bank of river Alaknanda. Hindus perform proppitiating rites for their deceased ancestors. Legends has it that when Shiva chopped of the fifth head of Brahma, […]
Detail InformationEdit The Peterhof Palace is actually a series of palaces and gardens located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, laid out on the orders of Peter the Great. These Palaces and gardens are sometimes referred as the “Russian Versailles”. The palace-ensemble along with the city centre is recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. HistoryEdit N.A. […]
Detail InformationEdit The Catherine Palace was the Rococo summer residence of the Russian tsars, located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), 25 km south-east of St. Petersburg, Russia. The residence originated in 1717, when Catherine I of Russia engaged the German architect Johann-Friedrich Braunstein to construct a summer palace for her pleasure. In 1733, […]
Detail InformationEdit The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the Russian monarchs. Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great’s original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the […]
India /Uttarakhand /Nainital /Nainital Nainital, Uttarakhand, India. Edit Detail InformationEdit The Durga Shah Municipal Public Library was established in the year 1933 by Mohan Lal Shah. It was the first public library in the Nainital region. The library is named after the father of Mohan Lal shah. The library was made by the donation given by […]
Detail InformationEdit The CEC Palace in Bucharest, Romania, built in 1900 and situated on Calea Victoriei opposite the History Museum, is the headquarters of the national savings house C.E.C., nowadays called CEC Bank. The palace was built as a new headquarters for the public savings institution Casa de Depuneri, Consemnaiuni i Economie, later known as […]
Detail InformationEdit The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania is a multi-purpose building containing both chambers of the Romanian Parliament. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Palace is the world’s largest civilian administrative building, most expensive administrative building, and heaviest building. The Palace was designed and nearly completed by the Ceauescu […]
Detail InformationEdit The Sintra National Palace (Portuguese: Palácio Nacional de Sintra), also called Town Palace (Palácio da Vila Vila=Town) is located in the town of Sintra, in Portugal near Lisbon. It is the best preserved medieval Royal Palace in Portugal, having been inhabited more or less continuously at least from the early 15th up to […]
Leça da Palmeira is a Portuguese parish (freguesia) in the municipality of Matosinhos and part of the city with the same name. It has 5.97 km² and had 17.215 inhabitants in the 2001 census. It has a rich cultural heritage, namely Forte de Nossa Senhora Da Conceição, Piscinas das Marés (Sea Pools developed by the […]
Detail InformationEdit The Queluz National Palace is a Portuguese 18th-century palace located at Queluz, a freguesia of the modern-day Sintra Municipality, in the Lisbon District. One of the last great Rococo buildings to be designed in Europe, the palace was conceived as a summer retreat for Dom Pedro of Braganza, later to become husband and […]