#photography morocco #palace
By Slawek Jankowski
Le Palais du Roi à Meknès, au Maroc, est un exemple étonnant de l’architecture et de l’histoire marocaines. Également connu sous le nom de Dar el Makhzen, ce palais royal a été construit par le puissant sultan Moulay Ismail au 17ème siècle. Le palais est un complexe massif qui comprend de nombreuses cours, jardins et bâtiments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJEn1DW4oQ
Buk in hamm Palace #PeterTosh
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#Anti-monarchy group Republic sneak into #Buckingham #Palace to stage protest right under the nose of the royals
Activists against the monarchy and King Charles have staged the first-ever protest inside Buckingham Palace.
The group of local campaigners from different parts of the UK visited the famous landmark just after midday as tourists.
They then stood, before standing in the Grand Hall wearing t-shirts that spelled out ‘Not My King’.
Footage of the stunt was posted online and showed them taking off their jackets.
A female member of staff can then be hear shouting: ‘Hey guys? What is this? What are we doing?’.
Speaking for Republic, Graham Smith said today: ‘This is a first, an anti-monarchy protest inside Buckingham Palace. A fantastic statement of intent, citizens standing up in the home of the monarchy to declare their opposition to hereditary power.
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#Kashi #Vishwanath #Temple: A Journey to the #Spiritual #Heart of India
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Kashi Vishwanath Temple is one of the holiest 12 #Jyotirlingas in India. The main #God of Kashi Vishwanath Temple is Lord #Shiva, also known as #Vishwanatha or #Vishweshwarar meaning’ the ruler of the universe’. The megacity of #Varanasi, the artistic capital of India, is therefore known as the megacity of Lord Shiva. The #palace of the temple is #plated with #800 kg of #gold. The temple also has several other smaller Mandir like #Kalabhairava, #Vishnu, #Virupaksha Gauri, #Vinayaka, and #Avimukteshwara. The Best Time to Visit Kashi Vishwanath Temple is from October to March Month.
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The #Majestic #Punakha #Dzong
Punakha Dzong in Punakha, dubbed ‘The #Palace #of #Great #Happiness,’ served as the country’s capital until the early twentieth century. It is #Bhutan’s second oldest and largest dzong, with exquisite interior and intricate embellishments like murals, carved woodwork, and paintings.
#Punakha is Bhutan’s winter capital, thanks to the region’s pleasant temperature. This dzong is where Bhutan’s chief of clergy and his entourage of monks spend the winter. The dzong is surrounded by jacaranda trees, which blossom with mauve flowers in the spring. Punakha is also home to Bhutan’s longest suspension bridge (Punakha Suspension Bridge), as well as Chimi Lhakhang, the Divine Madman’s fertility temple.
https://norbubhutan.com/10-famous-monasteries-in-bhutan-to-treat-your-mind-and-soul/
By the mid 1720's, the legendary prince had moved into the newly completed "Upper Belvedere", palace,, higher up on the hill looking down at the first Palace he'd built a decade earlier, the "Lower Belvedere" (so called once there was an upper). While the reflecting pond regretfully refused to reflect for me - be it time of day/angle of sun, clouds, or water level (given European drought) elsewhere) - whatever. The reflection gods seem to have remained back at Freud's house.
So Prince Eugene got to enjoy some 13 years here with his garden view, before passing on, and - heirless - passing on his palaces back to his beloved Austria, where he devoted himself after initially being raised as nobility in France's court of King Louis XiV.
Not by design, but I paired a post yesterday (Lower Belvedere) with "Lucky Man", a little bit relevant (nobleman off fighting for country) but without a sudden tragic ending. In real life the Prince was fragile in his final years, but died at home in his sleep. And this palace is stunningly beautiful - and I should add that the two palaces now comprise museums with some of the world's finest art, including the biggest/best collection of Klimt. Nothing broke-down about this palace, though it lost its creator, reborn as an art treasure.
Here's a song totally un-related (at least obviously) to this gorgeous palace, which has been but is not now broke down. Well... life,
simply a twist of #fate, or i-Ching.... thinking of "Palace" songs this sprang to mind. A powerful song about passings, actually, a beautiful song with which the Grateful Dead sometimes ended sets , and which many have chosen as a funeral tribute since.
(Check out the tear-jerker comments on YT if you go there; it is truly a great song, and for some very powerful, hopefully better now.
There are many castle songs which are great ("Castles Made of Sand" comes to mind, guess JH had a thins: "Spanish Castle Magic")
Anyway, I really spent years without hearing/thinking (Grateful) Dead, and now they're popping up. Fate. #Castles
So yeah, long live the Prince (in legacy), long live the King (of England now)... plus the Kings/Queens of Music.
And 'they don't make Palaces like they used to!' ;)
#myphoto #Belvedere #Wien #Vienna #fenfotos #music #musica #musique #GratefulDead #Palace
Why I like travel... (learning/history)
This Prince had many enviable palaces and bought this bit of princely property on the hill, envisioning fa proper Venetian summer palace after buying some prime land in the early 1700's. The construction of this here began in 1712. By 5 years later, the Prince had paid dearly to buy out a would-be neighbor in his gardens, and he nevertheless persevered and also built his masterpiece.
And then, fast forward to the Roaring (17)20's, and the original (Lower) Belvedere palace became the little twin brother of that awesome castle of castles, the Upper Belvedere.
Sadly, weather & time, etc., didn't give me that classic water pond reflection in front of the Upper Belvedere. But I did get one or two okay shots of that palace, which indeed is King of the Hill now. To be honest I was imagining, given the heat there in Summer '22, I might find a dried up pond, after hearing of entire rivers being dehydrated in nearby Germany. So, maybe a lower level? But it's there!
So Prince Eugene died without any heirs nor any will, and long story short, Welcome to Wien. Some great builders and artists & ... royalty. (not to mention landscape nee property)
#MyPhoto #Vienna #Wien #BelvederePalace #music #ELP #LuckyMan #musique #musica #palace #palacio #fenfotos
#horrors #of the #evil ones
https://www.bitchute.com/video/b6OqBEM8CoM5/
THE MOST HORRIFING VIDEO YOU WILL EVER WATCH ABOUT WHAT REALLY GOES ON IN #BUCKINGHAM #PALACE
A small #tree native to Southwest #China. Regarded as #symbol of #purity, they were planted around #emperor's s #palace during #Tang-Dynasty
The #delicate #scented #flowers #bloom in the #spring and the #flower #buds look exactly like #birds.
#Amiriya #Mosque #Madrasa #Palace #Tahirid #Dynasty #Islamic #Architecture #Culture #History #Radaa #Yemen #World
Out of the sand
It was built in 1504, but abandoned 13 years later and left to crumble. Now, after a huge restoration project, Yemen's Amiriya Palace is considered the world's most beautiful mosque
The Amiriya is dated 1504 and was part mosque, part religious school and part private residence of Sultan Amir ibn Abd al-Wahhab, one of the last Yemeni rulers from the Tahirid Dynasty and an enormously wealthy man who had made his fortune trading with India out of Aden. His palace, with its domes and archways, echoes the architecture of Mughal Delhi and may even have been built with Indian designers. In 1517, not long after his palace was built, Sultan Amir was killed fighting an invading Egyptian army allied to his Yemeni rivals. The Amiriya was abandoned, left by Yemen's new rulers to collapse into the sand.
The monument was in poor condition until 1978 when Iraqi-born archaeologist Selma Al-Radi saw it and enlisted financial help from foreign missions to restore it in a more than twenty-year effort which she led. The restoration took place between 1982 until 2004.
Rada'a, Yemen
