Palace Introduction - Royal Castle of Laken, Palais Schaumburg, Palazzo Delle Assicurazioni Generali, Deeg Palace, Sapieha Palace, Warsaw (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 139. Not illustrated. Chapters: Royal Castle of Laken, Palais Schaumburg, Palazzo Delle Assicurazioni Generali, Deeg Palace, Sapieha Palace, Warsaw, Rund le Palace, Royal Greenhouses of Laeken, Presidential Palace, Nicosia, As-Salam Palace (Baghdad, Iraq), Gresham Palace, Tivoli Castle, Gruber Palace, Tajbeg Palace, Palazzo Muti Papazzurri, Basheer Bagh Palace, Beaulieu Palace House, National Museum of Contemporary History, Mladika, Stadtpalais Liechtenstein, Radwaniyah Palace, Casa de La Cacica, Philip Mansion, Zois Palace, Kresija Palace, Palace of Art, Schloss Hof, Beiteddine Palace, Ihlamur Palace, Bessastaoir, Court House Palace, Monserrate Palace, Palazzo Canossa, T g Palace, Presidential Palace, Zagreb, Qishlah, Barzan Palace, Sela Mansion, Baabda Palace, Sti na Mansion, Ljubljana Central Pharmacy, Correio-Mor Palace, Argentina Park, Souvan House, Mateus Palace, Tuwaiq Palace, Royal Palace of La Almudaina, Bayan Palace, Fakhreddine Palace, Tahra Palace, Bustros Palace, Seif Palace, Belgramoni-Taco Palace, Palazzo Chigi-Saracini, Shadda Palace, Palazzo Tiepolo, Villa Reale, Paw owice, Gravisi-Barbabianca Palace, Gravisi-Butorai Palace, Amerigogna Palace, Brutti Palace, Carli Palace. Excerpt: The Royal Castle of Laken is the official residence of the King of the Belgians. The castle was built at Laken between 1782-1784 after the plans of the French architect Charles de Wailly under supervision of Louis Montoyer as a summer residence for the Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria and her husband Albert of Saxe-Teschen. On 21 July 1803, Nicolas-Jean Rouppe, as commissioner of the department of the Dijle, received Napoleon at the Castle of Laken. Napoleon stayed here with his Empress in August 1804 on his way from awarding the first Legion d'honneur to his invasion troops at Boulogne to h...