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Fretensberg Castle - Copenhagen - Denmark
Royal castle dating from the 16th and early 17th centuries. Coronation Chapel for Danish Kings, Audience Chamber and Knights' Hall. Museum of Danish history and portrait collection illustrating the past 500 years of history. Modern Collection: Portrait gallery for 20th century.
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Friendship Culture Palace - Hanoi - Vietnam
Friendship Culture PalaceThe construction of the palace started on November 5, 1978 and was completed on September 1, 1985. The Friendship Cultural Palace, also called Huu Nghi Cultural Palace, was a present from the USSR Central Trade Union Council to the Vietnam Trade Union. The Friendship Cultural Palace covers 3.2 ha, and has three major buildings: a performance house, a study house, and a science and technology house comprising 120 rooms. The Friendship Cultural Palace is the biggest cultural center in the capital of Hanoi. The front building is the performance house, equipped with a rotary stage, and two halls (the big hall has a seating capacity of 1256, the small one 375). Behind this block is the study house with a library and rooms for clubs to hold workshops and conferences. The science and technology house connects the two buildings together. The Friendship Cultural Palace is where cultural activities, art performances, fashion shows, beauty contests, conferences, workshops, exhibitions, and sports events are usually held.
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Heldenplate With Palace Gates - Vienna - Austria
The Heldenplatz in Vienna is a great open sauare between the Ringstrasse I and the Hofburg, the former imperial palace. On the Heldenplatz on March 15, 1938, a few days after German troops marched into Austria, Hitler announced ""the completion of the most important act of my life, the entry of my homeland into the Great German Reich,"" and was hailed by an ecstatic crowd of three hundred thousand.
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Hillsborough - County Down
Hillsborough. The Georgian village of Hillsborough is rich in history. Hillsborough Fort with its eight-foot high earth ramparts, dates back to around 1650 and was used as a Royal Fortress by King Charles II. Other buildings of note include the market house, the parish church of St Malachy, built in 1636 and the Castle, seat of the former Governors of Northern Ireland.
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Hillsborough - County Down
Hillsborough. The Georgian village of Hillsborough is rich in history. Hillsborough Fort with its eight-foot high earth ramparts, dates back to around 1650 and was used as a Royal Fortress by King Charles II. Other buildings of note include the market house, the parish church of St Malachy, built in 1636 and the Castle, seat of the former Governors of Northern Ireland.
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Hillsborough - County Down
Hillsborough. The Georgian village of Hillsborough is rich in history. Hillsborough Fort with its eight-foot high earth ramparts, dates back to around 1650 and was used as a Royal Fortress by King Charles II. Other buildings of note include the market house, the parish church of St Malachy, built in 1636 and the Castle, seat of the former Governors of Northern Ireland.
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Hillsborough. The Georgian village of Hillsborough is rich in history. Hillsborough Fort with its eight-foot high earth ramparts, dates back to around 1650 and was used as a Royal Fortress by King Charles II. Other buildings of note include the market house, the parish church of St Malachy, built in 1636 and the Castle, seat of the former Governors of Northern Ireland.
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Ho Chi Minh House On Stilts - Hanoi - Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh House on StiltsLocated in a large garden at the back of the Presidential Palace is a nice road covered with pebbles and bordered with mango trees that lead to a stilt house, Uncle Ho's residence and office from May 1958 until his death. The perfume of jasmine flowers and roses is omnipresent. At the back is a garden of fruit trees, where the luxuriant milk fruit tree donated to Uncle Ho by his southern compatriots in 1954 stands between two lines of Hai Hung orange trees. Other valuable trees belonging to more than 30 species supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Forestry, and several provinces represent the wide variety of trees growing in Vietnam. There are also trees imported from foreign countries, such as Ngan Hoa trees, miniature rose bushes, areca trees from the Caribbean, Buddhist bamboo trees, etc. Dozens of varieties of orchid beautifully hang from the trees which blossom all year round.
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Ho Chi Minh House On Stilts - Hanoi - Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh House on StiltsLocated in a large garden at the back of the Presidential Palace is a nice road covered with pebbles and bordered with mango trees that lead to a stilt house, Uncle Ho's residence and office from May 1958 until his death. The perfume of jasmine flowers and roses is omnipresent. At the back is a garden of fruit trees, where the luxuriant milk fruit tree donated to Uncle Ho by his southern compatriots in 1954 stands between two lines of Hai Hung orange trees. Other valuable trees belonging to more than 30 species supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Forestry, and several provinces represent the wide variety of trees growing in Vietnam. There are also trees imported from foreign countries, such as Ngan Hoa trees, miniature rose bushes, areca trees from the Caribbean, Buddhist bamboo trees, etc. Dozens of varieties of orchid beautifully hang from the trees which blossom all year round.
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