Fontainebleau was one of the Privileged residences of the Sovereigns who ruled France. The love of the hunt made it into all of its occupants head their hearst set on improving it through new decorations. After that it results in the present protusion of courty arts and buildings with different decorative and architectural styles. Almost eight centuries of French history was affected by this chateau from 1137, The years of the coronation of Louis VII to the fall of the second Empire in 1870.
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Fontainbleau is located 65 km south of Paris, by the A6 in fontainebleau, had the noblest garden in France. It was made for a king, Francis I, who wished to rival the great courts of Italy. Though the old knots and statuary have gone, enough of the 1528-1547 layout survives to give one a sense of how gardens were arranged in sixteenth century France. Francois had led an army into Italy and admired the gardens. He attaracted Italian artists to France, including Leonardo de vinci, and fostered Ranaissance culture north of the Alps. Romantic historious used to claim that James
Savonlinna (Nyslott in Swedish, literally Newcastle) is a municipality of about 28,000 inhabitants in the southeast of Finland, in the heart of the Saimaa lake region.
St. Olaf's Castle
The city was founded in the 17th century based around St. Olaf's Castle. The castle was founded by Erik Axelsson Tott in 1475 in an effort to protect Savonia and to control the unstable border between the Kingdom of Sweden and its Russian adversary.
The city hosts the famous annual Savonlinna opera festival. The operas are performed on a stage built within the castle.
Statistics
Population: 27,536 (2003)
Area: 1,374.00 km˛
of which is water: 551.74
Galanta (Hungarian: Galánta, German: Gallandau) is a small town situated in Slovakia. Its distance to the Slovak capital Bratislava is 50 km.
Galanta is an old town where historical buildings were unfortunately destroyed during the Communist era of Czechoslovakia (1948-1989). There are two important historical buildings left. The first one is the Esterhazys' Castle and the second one a Renaissance castle. The Esterhazys' Castle is almost in ruins now as opposed to the Renaissance castle which was renovated in the 1990s.
The Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály spent most of his childhood in this town and composed the Dances of Galanta (1933, for
Habsburg is a municipality in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland, above the Aar valley. As of 2000, the population was 368. The territory of the municipality is 2.23 km˛.
Around 1020, Radbot of Habsburg built Habsburg castle, which became the family seat of the Habsburg. Though the family did not rule the land after the 1400s, the historic arms of Habsburg, a lion on a gold field, show up in Austrian arms up to the end of the Imperial period. The modern arms show Habsburg Castle. The area around this castle was covered by forests and only cleared around 1500.
Hunedoara (Hungarian: Vajdahunyad, German: Eisenmarkt) is a city in Hunedoara county, Transylvania, Romania.
The city of Hunedoara has the most important Gothic-style secular building in Romania: the castle, which is closely connnected with the Hunyadi family. The castle was originally a small royal citadel and was given to Vajk (Romanian: Voicu) by King Sigismund of Hungary in 1409. Vajk's son, John Hunyadi, began enlargement of the castle into a Gothic residence in 1446. The castle was damaged by fire many times, but underwent successive renovations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by the architects Imre Steindl, Frigyes Schulek and
