Villa Pisani, today housing the National Museum, contains 18th and 19th century works of art and furniture, and on the ceiling of the ballroom Gianbattista Tiepolo’s ... read more
Villa Medici La Petraia was built for Cosimo I de Medici, who has acquired it in 1544. He gave it in 1568 to his son Cardinal Ferdinando (1549 – 1609), who changed ... read more
Villa Medici & Garden at Poggio a Caiano, were built for Lorenzo di Midici in 1485 and designed by Giuliano de Sangallo (1445-1516) an architect, sculptor and ... read more
Villa Manin was built for the Manin family in the 17th century, but has been modified several times, as has been its 19 ha garden. Today the furnished villa is a museum, ... read more
Villa Malfitano Whitaker is a 19th-century palace and a museum for the artwork, natural history and archeologic collections, of the Sicilian-English artist and ... read more
Villa Carlotta, now a museum, was built in 1745 by Marquis Clerici. The villa, beautifully decorated, contains important 19th century art works, and is surrounded by ... read more
The Trakoscan Castle Museum is a fairy tale castle with a park, a lake, and a history of over 800 years. Originally it was a defence fortress, until Count ... read more
The Rubens House is the former home and workshop of the world famous Flemish artist and diplomat Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640). He bought it in 1610, after his ... read more
The Royal Castle in Warsaw is the former seat of the rulers of Poland, which has been carefully reconstructed from 1971-1984 after its destruction during WW II. Today, ... read more
The Musée du Luxembourg is part of the Palais du Luxembourg and is today one of the leading exhibition spaces in Paris, and houses masterpieces of Botticelli, Raphaël, ... read more
Stupinigi Palace is a former hunting lodge and residence of the House of Savoy, and presently house the Museo di Arte e Ammobiliamento, a museum of the arts and ... read more
The Museum of History, part of the Slovak National Museum, is located in the historic Bratislava Castle. It features the development of the society in Slovakia from the ... read more
Skokloster Castle was built by Count Carl Gustaf Wrangel, the famous statesman and general, and is today a state museum displaying collections of paintings, furniture, ... read more
Eggenberg Palace's history is closely linked to the Princes von Eggenberg and the Counts von Herberstein, who got the palace into their hands by inheritance in the ... read more
Sanssouci was built (1745-1747) for Frederick the Great as a place to relax and enjoy a (relative) simple life, without worries, "sans soucis". The villa-like ... read more
Royal Palace of Caserta, is one of the largest royal residences in the world and is surrounded by a 120 ha baroque park, with formal vistas, fountains and cascades. The ... read more
Royal Palace museum Capodimonte, now a museum, was one of the two Royal palaces in Naples. It was a summer palace, hunting lodge and residence for the Kings of Two ... read more
The Royal Monastery of Pedralbes, today a museum showing the collections of the Museum of Barcelona, dates back to the 14th century. It was founded by Queen Elisenda de ... read more
Royal Carthusian Monastery of Valldemossa dates back to 1309 when it was built as a Royal palace. It became a monastery in 1399. Chopin stayed here in winter 1838-1839 ... read more
Rheinsberg Palace was the residence of Frederic the Great , when he was the Prussian Crown Prince. Later his younger brother, Prince Henry of Prussia, lived here and ... read more