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08:22 EST, 6 June 2016
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Updated:
08:43 EST, 6 June 2016
These are the haunting images of an Italian castle that still stands in pristine condition, despite being left abandoned for more than 20 years.
The Castello di Sammezzano in Tuscany, Italy, was built in the early 17th century by Spanish nobles and was even visited by Emperor Charlemagne, before it was turned into a hotel-restaurant.
It has been empty since the 1990s when the hotel business c… (View original article)
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18:25 EST, 5 June 2016
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Updated:
08:59 EST, 6 June 2016
The owner of a notorious $100,000-a-month Hollywood Hills party mansion has hit out at the Saudi Prince he is suing for allegedly trashing it during a wild drug and stripper-fueled graduation bash.
Prince Aziz al Saud, 29, was renting the 16,000sq ft property from Danny Fitzgerald in August last year when the alleged raucous party took place.
Fitzgerald claims in a lawsuit that the prince in… (View original article)
Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London, will get a revamp. Photo: AFP
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Windsor Castle, a home of Queen Elizabeth II and one of Britain’s most popular tourist attractions, is to get an extensive facelift to improve facilities for visitors. Tourist areas at the medieval castle west … (View original article)
Glensheen wants to hear your mansion stories for its new tour
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A new tour of Glensheen mansion won’t focus on the Congdon family – it’s dedicated to the people who helped run the Lake Superior estate.
It’s called the Servants Tour, and it will describe the lives of everyone from those who built the mansion from 1905-1909, to the chefs, servants and coachmen who kept the home running on a day-to-day basis, an email news release says.
The tour will also … (View original article)
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10:08 EST, 5 June 2016
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Updated:
12:23 EST, 5 June 2016
Comedian Rowan Atkinson has been forced to slash the price of his Oxfordshire mansion by £250,000 after it has failed to sell despite being on the market for a year.
The five-bedroom house in the village of Waterperry, Oxfordshire, is now up for sale for £2.65million, down from £2.9million 12 months ago.
The 61-year-old, known for his roles in Mr Bean and Blackadder, is selling the former fam… (View original article)
Archaeologist Vitaliy Koziuba gestures as he speaks about the remnants
of Prince Volodymyr palace found in early May on the corner of modern
Volodymyrska Street and Andriyivsky Uzviz Street in Kyiv on June 3.
Photo by Anastasia Vlasova
A spectacular
archaeological find in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv could be at risk due to the
inaction of city officials, a top Ukrainian archaeologist has warned.
The foundations and
part… (View original article)
Published:
16:00 EST, 4 June 2016
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Updated:
23:53 EST, 4 June 2016
It is a heartwarming sight beneath the cold, slate grey skies of County Durham: stirring, patriotic – and quite wonderfully bonkers.
Queen Elizabeth I is waving from a barge, her ruby curls cascading beneath her crown. Behind her, a squadron of First World War Tommies in muddy puttees laughs with five fierce-looking Vikings. To one side, two Roman centurions share a fag.
A jumble of history?… (View original article)
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03:19 EST, 5 June 2016
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Updated:
06:57 EST, 5 June 2016
The eight-bedroom mansion in Denham, Buckinghamshire, belonging to the late singer Cilla Black has been put up for sale by her three sons
Cilla Black’s sons are selling their mother’s eight-bedroom Buckinghamshire mansion after putting it on the market for £4.3million.
The singer and TV presenter, who died aged 72 last year, bought the huge property in 1970 with her husband Bobby Wi… (View original article)
French Chateau For Sale
Living the dream of owning a large, spectacular and historic building in many countries can often be somewhat difficult to realise. Not so, France. Almost every department has its share of imposing tower-topped chateaux dominating the landscape, if no longer the people. From long-forgotten manorial houses to the very largest monastic and secular palaces, French chateaux offer a vision of mystique and romance that perhaps the more solidly defensive English castles… (View original article)
Published:
16:01 EST, 3 June 2016
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Updated:
19:12 EST, 3 June 2016
Just a few months ago it was one of the most impressive houses in its particular corner of Surrey.
Now, after a bitter nine-year planning battle, this is all that remains of Robert Fidler’s dream home.
The mock Tudor ‘castle’ thought to have been worth in the region of £1million is just a pile of rubble after Mr Fidler obeyed a court order to demolish it rather than face jail.
Rubble… (View original article)