Author Archives: Castles of the Realm
TRAVEL GUIDE: Glenapp Castle – Sunday Life – Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
You know you’re somewhere special when there’s a helicopter service on offer, and when your room has a name all of its own — not to mention a croquet lawn outside. Oh, and if you happen to say over dinner that there’s a particular movie you might like to see some time, chances are it … Continue reading
BBC News – Poland’s medieval love affair for knights
7 August 2011 Last updated at 02:32 ET By Adam Easton BBC News, Malbork Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Close-Up: Poland’s knight obsession There is something about summer that makes some Poles clamour to slip into chain mail or flowing dresses and pretend to be medieval knights and damsels. During the … Continue reading
Bulgarian Ministers Celebrate Wedding, Birthdays in Ex King Summer Residence: Bulgarian Ministers Celebrate Wedding, Birthdays in Ex King Summer Residence – Novinite.com – Sofia News Agency
Bulgaria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, is going to wed his girlfriend Gergana on August 20th at the Evsinograd State Residence. The Bulgarian Standart (Standard) daily further informs the couple has invited Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, to become their best man, and he had accepted going as far as saying he might wear his tailcoat … Continue reading
Marion Davies’ Beverly Hills Mansion Sold For $9.3 Million
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Sale of Bond’s former mansion sets record – The West Australian
The $39 million sale of Alan Bond’s former Dalkeith mansion has trumped sales records for the suburb and become WA’s second most expensive house sale. Mack Hall, of Mack Hall Real Estate, confirmed the riverfront Watkins Road mansion set across six titles totalling about 6400sqm was bought by mining entrepreneur Steve Wyatt and his wife … Continue reading
Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion hosting photo contest – Canandaigua, NY – MPNnow
Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park is hosting a photo contest from now through Oct. 14.The contest began in July and each month, a jury will select the top photographs each to be displayed in a changing display at the entrance of the Carriage House. Final jury judging results for the season will take … Continue reading
Carnegie Hill Holds On to the High Ground – WSJ.com
BY JOSEPH DE AVILA Andrew Carnegie described the sprawling mansion he had built on East 91st Street as “the most modest, plainest and most roomy home in New York.” The Carnegie Mansion, now home to the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, set off a housing boom in the neighborhood when it was built at the turn … Continue reading
New Civil War museum for Knoxville » Knoxville News Sentinel
The Bethel Cemetery is the resting place of more than 1,600 Confederate soldiers, a 40-foot Confederate monument erected in 1892, and the caretaker’s cottage from 1886, but few Knoxville residents are aware of its existence. With the help of the historical Mabry-Hazen House, 1711 Dandridge Avenue, and the Hazen Historical Museum Foundation, the caretaker’s cottage … Continue reading
Schwarzenberg property portfolio – Telegraph
Topping the list is Cesky Krumlov castle, which sits of a rocky hill overlooking the town. Now a state-owned museum and part of UNESCO world heritage site, the castle, at 2,624ft long, is one of the biggest buildings in the Czech Republic and attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year. Another prime piece of … Continue reading
North Carolina History Center at Tryon Palace – NYTimes.com
Travis Dove for The New York Times Tryon Palace is a reconstruction of an 18th-century governor’s mansion in New Bern, N.C. The complex includes the more contemporary North Carolina History Center. NEW BERN, N.C. — There are many ways to make history, but there can be few places where you can watch it being remade … Continue reading