| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Ravenna
Site / Event : Arcivescovile Museum
|
 |
The small museum is set on the upper floor of a former bishops' palace in the Duomo complex.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Ravenna
|
 |
The courtyard of a palace dedicated to Dante.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Ravenna
Site / Event : City Art Museum
|
 |
The City Art Museum is set in a former palace.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Rimini
District : Piazza Cavour
|
 |
The 14th century Podesta Palace.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Bologna
District : Palazzo Comunale
Site / Event : Palace Art Museum
|
 |
The Palace Art Museum has furniture from between 13th and 19th centuries.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Bologna
District : Piazza Maggioire
Site / Event : Palazzo Re Enzo
|
 |
The Palazzo Re Enzo is one of three palaces on the piazza.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Bologna
District : Piazza Maggioire
Site / Event : Palazzo Re Enzo
|
 |
View of the palace.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Bologna
District : Piazza Maggioire
Site / Event : Palazzo Re Enzo
|
 |
The palace is dominated by a square tower.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Bologna
District : Palace of Archiginnasio
|
 |
The entrance hall of the Palace of Archiginnasio.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Bologna
District : Palace of Archiginnasio
|
 |
The palace was the city's university between 1563 and 1805.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Bologna
District : Palace of Archiginnasio
|
 |
The palace is highly decorated.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Bologna
|
 |
The entrance to the Mercanzia Palace.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Bologna
|
 |
The upper storeys of the Mercanzia Palace.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Emilia-Romagna
City / Town : Bologna
Site / Event : Archeological Museum
|
 |
The museum is set in a former palace.
|
2016 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Veneto
City / Town : Venice
District : St Mark's Square
Site / Event : Doge's Palace
|
 |
The Doge's Palace is on one side of the square.
|
1994 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Veneto
City / Town : Venice
District : St Mark's Square
Site / Event : Doge's Palace
|
 |
The city was ruled from the Doge's Palace since 1340.
|
1994 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Veneto
City / Town : Venice
District : St Mark's Square
Site / Event : Doge's Palace
|
 |
Outside the palace.
|
1994 |
| Italy |
State / Province : Veneto
City / Town : Venice
District : St Mark's Square
Site / Event : Doge's Palace
|
 |
The Bridge of Sighs leads from the palace to the prison.
|
1981 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Tokyo
Site / Event : Imperial Palace
|
 |
The Imperial Palace is the residence of the Emperor.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Tokyo
Site / Event : Imperial Palace
|
 |
The palace is only open to the public on the monarch's birthday.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Tokyo
Site / Event : Imperial Palace
|
 |
Palace guard.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Tokyo
Site / Event : Imperial Palace
|
 |
Two girls in the palace grounds.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Tokyo
Site / Event : Imperial Palace
|
 |
The palace gardens.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Tokyo
Site / Event : Imperial Palace
|
 |
The palace grounds.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Tokyo
Site / Event : Imperial Palace
|
 |
People in the extensive palace grounds.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Tokyo
Site / Event : Imperial Palace
|
 |
The palace is built in traditional style.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Kyoto
Site / Event : Nijo Castle
|
 |
The palace buildings are very elegant and date from 1603.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Kyoto
Site / Event : Nijo Castle
|
 |
The palace area is very extended.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Kyoto
Site / Event : Nijo Castle
|
 |
The palace building.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Kyoto
Site / Event : Gosho Imperial Palace
|
 |
The enclosure to the Gosho Imperial Palace.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Kyoto
Site / Event : Gosho Imperial Palace
|
 |
The palace was rebuilt in 1855.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Kyoto
Site / Event : Gosho Imperial Palace
|
 |
The grounds of the palace where all Japanese emperors are crowned.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Kyoto
Site / Event : Shoren-In Temple
|
 |
The Shoren-In Temple resembles a palace.
|
1988 |
| Japan |
City / Town : Kanazawa
Site / Event : Kenrokuen Gardens
|
 |
 Kenrokuen Gardens was once part of the palace complex.
|
2024 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Amman
Site / Event : Citadel
|
 |
Ruins of an Ummayad palace.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Amman
Site / Event : Citadel Museum
|
 |
Model of the dome of the 8th century Hisham Palace in Jericho.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Amman
Site / Event : Citadel Museum
|
 |
Window from the Hisham Palace in Jericho (now in Palestine).
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Amman
Site / Event : Jordan Museum
|
 |
16th century manuscript showing activity in the Topkapi palace in Istanbul.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Petra
District : Royal Tombs
|
 |
The Palace and Corinthian Tombs.
|
2019 |
| Kazakhstan |
City / Town : Almaty
|
 |
The Palace of the Republic is a theatre.
|
2008 |
| Kuwait |
City / Town : Kuwait City
|
 |
Seif Palace is the residence of the monarch.
|
2019 |
| Laos |
City / Town : Luang Prabang
District : Royal Palace
|
 |
The former Royal Palace complex.
|
2024 |
| Laos |
City / Town : Luang Prabang
District : Royal Palace
|
 |
The Royal Palace from Wat Ho Pha Bang.
|
2024 |
| Laos |
City / Town : Vientiane
|
 |
The Presidential Palace.
|
2025 |
| Laos |
City / Town : Vientiane
|
 |
View of Lane Xang Avenue to Patuxai from the Presidential Palace.
|
2025 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Bekaa Valley
Site / Event : Aanjar
|
 |
View of the Great Palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Bekaa Valley
Site / Event : Aanjar
|
 |
The Great Palace is the largest structure at Aanjar.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Bekaa Valley
Site / Event : Aanjar
|
 |
The Great Palace was the residence of Ummayad Caliph Walid I (died 715).
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Bekaa Valley
Site / Event : Aanjar
|
 |
The Great Palace interior.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Bekaa Valley
Site / Event : Aanjar
|
 |
The Great Palace has two storeys.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Bekaa Valley
Site / Event : Aanjar
|
 |
The Little Palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Sidon
Site / Event : Sea Castle
|
 |
The castle is on the site of a Phoenician palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Sidon
District : Souks
Site / Event : Ali Hammoud Palace
|
 |
The restored Ali Hammoud Palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
City / Town : Sidon
District : Souks
Site / Event : Ali Hammoud Palace
|
 |
The palace is now a school.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Palace
|
 |
The Fakhr ud-Din Palace is on the main square.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Palace
|
 |
Wax model of Fakhr ud-Din inside the palace entrance.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Fakhr ud-Din Palace
|
 |
The palace was built using stone from a defeated rival pasha's fort.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Younes Maan Palace
|
 |
The Younes Maan Palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Younes Maan Palace
|
 |
The palace is now a tea house and puppet museum.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Ahmad Chehab Palace
|
 |
The entrance to the Ahmad Chehab Palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Ahmad Chehab Palace
|
 |
The palace dates from 1755.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
Site / Event : Ahmad Chehab Palace
|
 |
In 1784 the palace was the base of resistance to the Ottomans by Ibrahim Pasha.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
City / Town : Deir el-Qamar
|
 |
View of the Beiteddine Palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
 |
The entrance to the Beiteddine Palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
 |
The palace was built by Emir Bashir Shihab II in the early 19th century.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
 |
The palace is the Summer residence of the President of Lebanon.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
 |
View of Deir el_Qamar from the palace grounds.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
 |
Entrance to the Dar el-Wousta, the inner palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
 |
The beautiful courtyard of the Dar el-Wousta, the inner palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
 |
The courtyard of the inner palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
 |
The palace has many passages.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
 |
View of the mosaic in the centre of the garden from the upper levels of the palace.
|
2015 |
| Lebanon |
Region : Chouf Mountains
Site / Event : Beiteddine Palace
|
 |
View of the valley from the upper levels of the palace.
|
2015 |
| Malaysia |
State / Province : Peninsular
City / Town : Kota Bharu
Site / Event : Istana Balai Besar
|
 |
View of the palace.
|
1992 |
| Malaysia |
State / Province : Peninsular
City / Town : Kota Bharu
Site / Event : Istana Balai Besar
|
 |
Istana Balai Besar is a wooden palace dating from 1844.
|
1992 |
| Malta |
City / Town : Valletta
District : Grand Master's Palace
|
 |
The Grand Master's Palace was the residence of the Grand Masters of the Knights of St John.
|
2014 |
| Malta |
City / Town : Valletta
District : Grand Master's Palace
|
 |
The entrance to the palace.
|
2014 |
| Malta |
City / Town : Mdina
Site / Event : Falson Palace
|
 |
Falson Palace is a medieval mansion with a stone courtyard.
|
2014 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Federal District
City / Town : Mexico City
District : Zocalo
Site / Event : National Palace
|
 |
The 18th century National Palace is the seat of the country's government.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Federal District
City / Town : Mexico City
District : Zocalo
Site / Event : National Palace
|
 |
The palace is famous for the murals by Diego Rivera which depict the pre-Hispanic history of Mexico.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Federal District
City / Town : Mexico City
District : Almeda Park
Site / Event : Palace of Fine Arts
|
 |
The Palace of Fine Arts dates from the early 20th century.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Federal District
City / Town : Teotihuacan
Site / Event : Palace of Quetzelcoatl
|
 |
The Palace of Quetzelcoatl.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Federal District
City / Town : Teotihuacan
Site / Event : Palace of Quetzelcoatl
|
 |
The palace is famous for its carved stonework.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Zacatecas
City / Town : Zacatecas
Site / Event : Government Palace
|
 |
The Government Palace was formerly a baron's mansion.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Puebla
City / Town : Puebla
|
 |
The Palace of Justice, one of many Spanish colonial buildings in this attractive city.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Tlaxcala
City / Town : Tlaxcala
Site / Event : Municipal Palace
|
 |
The entrance to the Municipal Palace.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Tlaxcala
City / Town : Tlaxcala
Site / Event : Municipal Palace
|
 |
The palace is ornately tiled and carved.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
City / Town : Oaxaca
Site / Event : Government Palace
|
 |
The interior courtyard of the Government Palace.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
City / Town : Oaxaca
Site / Event : Government Palace
|
 |
The palace contains murals showing the history of the Oaxaca Valley which has been inhabited since 8000 BCE.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Mitla
|
 |
The Royal Palace.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Palenque
Site / Event : The Palace
|
 |
The Palace is the site's largest building.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Palenque
Site / Event : The Palace
|
 |
The palace dates from the 7th century.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Palenque
Site / Event : The Palace
|
 |
The palace was constructed during the rule of King Pakal (615 to 683).
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Palenque
Site / Event : The Palace
|
 |
The palace is dominated by its observation tower.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Palenque
Site / Event : The Palace
|
 |
Mayan hieroglyphs cover the palace walls. The Mayans possessed a sophisticated writing system.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Palenque
Site / Event : The Palace
|
 |
The palace has underground passages.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Palenque
Site / Event : The Palace
|
 |
View from the observation tower looking down onto the palace.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Palenque
Site / Event : The Palace
|
 |
View of the palace.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Palenque
Site / Event : The Palace
|
 |
The palace is a maze of courtyards, stairways, coridors and rooms.
|
1995 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Palenque
Site / Event : The Palace
|
 |
The palace has extensive underground passages.
|
1995 |
