Web Directory

» Archbishop's Palace, Kromeriz, Czech Republic
   Early-Baroque palace designed by Italian architects Filiberto Lucchese and Giovanni Pietro Tencalla. Official site with photograph, history and visitor information.
   http://www.azz.cz/

» Beijing Service: Summer Palace
   Offers an illustrated history and description this former imperial retreat in China, now a huge public park. Features a selection of its more than 3,000 buildings.
   http://www.beijingservice.com/summerpalace.htm

» Beijing Trip: Summer Palace
   A history, description and bird's eye map of the second largest imperial garden in China. The complex includes halls, temple and pagoda built around a lake.
   http://www.beijingtrip.com/attractions/summer/

» Esterhazy Palace
   This magnificent palace in Fertod, Hungary, was begun in 1720 by Prince József Esterházy. The official site gives a history of the palace, details of exhibitions and concerts, and visitor information.
   http://www.schloss-esterhazy.at/

» Imperial Palaces of Petersburg
   Bob Atchison provides a virtual tour of the Alexander Palace, Pavlovsk, Yelagin, Gatchina, Catherine Palace, Winter Palace and Peterhof. Part of Russian History Websites.
   http://www.alexanderpalace.org/petepalaces/palaces.html

» Iolani Palace
   The residence of King Kalakaua and Queen Lili`uokalani, the last monarchs of Hawai`i, built 1879-82 in an "American Florentine" style. Includes history, photographs and visitor information.
   http://www.iolanipalace.org/

» Neuschwanstein Castle
   The official site of this 19th-century fantasy castle built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria includes an illustrated building history, tour and biography of Ludwig.
   http://www.neuschwanstein.de/

» Northwest Palace of Ashur-nasir-pal II at Nimrud
   History of this Assyrian palace from Learning Sites, with a VRML model and bibliography.
   http://www.learningsites.com/NWPalace/NWPalhome.html

» Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
   Description of the ensemble of palaces and parks created by the 18th and 19th-century Prussian kings and German emperors - a World Heritage site. From Cartographic Information System on European Affairs.
   http://www.geog.fu-berlin.de/eurocis/whl/c532potsdam.shtml

» Schloss Laxenburg, Austria
   Brief history and tour of the 18th-century former imperial palace, now the headquarters of International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
   http://www.iiasa.ac.at/docs/IIASA_Tour.html

» Schönbrunn Palace, Austria
   The official site provides photographs and brief history of the magnificent Baroque imperial palace, with visitor information. The archive of plans, images and papers will be open to the public in future.
   http://www.schoenbrunn.at/

» The Grand Palace in Bangkok
   Ann Church provides a guide to this ornate palace complex. Aerial view. Tour via sensitive bird's-eye map. Illustrated history of the royal family and information on Buddhism.
   http://www.smcm.edu/art/Thailand/

» The Hilltop Palace in the Fort of Daulatabad, India
   Carl Lindquist provides an illustrated description of the Mughal pavilion on the citadel of the Fort of Daulatabad, Maharashtra, India. Includes photographs, historical chronology, and information about the fort.
   http://sites.google.com/site/carllindquist/daulatabadfort

» The Palace of Rameses III
   Mohammed Motlib uses computer-reconstruction to show how the Window of Appearance could have been used. Part of The Virtual Study Tour, from the New Zealand School of Architecture.
   http://archpropplan.auckland.ac.nz/virtualtour/rameses/

» The Royal Palace of Norway
   The official site for the Norwegian monarchy provides an illustrated history and virtual guided tour of the palace in Oslo designed by Danish-born Hans Linstow (1787-1851).
   http://www.kongehuset.no/

» The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
   The official site provides a virtual tour and history of the museum buildings: the Baroque Winter Palace (1754-1762) designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli and the Neo-Classical Small Hermitage and Large Hermitage.
   http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/

» The Topkapi Palace Museum
   Bilkent University Department of History provides a history of this grandiose Ottoman palace and guide to its architectural development. Includes a bibliography.
   http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/topkapi.html

» Virtual Tour of Potala Palace, Tibet
   This tour takes in both the massive exterior and the ornate interior of the former palace of the Dalai Lama, spiritual and political head of Tibet.
   http://www.100gogo.com/tibet/pa1.htm

» Wikipedia: Potala Palace
   An illustrated history and description of this impressive structure in Lhasa, Tibet, formerly the chief residence of the Dalai Lama.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potala_Palace

» Wikipedia: Umaid Bhawan Palace
   An illustrated description and history from the collaborative encyclopedia of India's last palace. Begun in 1929, it was designed by H. V. Lanchester in an Indo-Art-Deco style.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umaid_Bhawan_Palace

» Wonders of Az-Zahra and Other Andalusian Palaces
   Essay by Dr. A. Zahoor on the extravagant pleasure palaces built in the 10th century by Islamic potentates in Spain.
   http://cyberistan.org/islamic/zahra.html