I return to the old city by ferry, passing waterfront Ottoman Era palaces either repurposed as luxury hotels, or left to lie empty and sink into gradual decay.
The inspiration for the Rao house came from a Raj-era palace in Bangalore.
But the planned reconstruction of the Prussian-era palace whose ruins were destroyed by the Communist regime in the 1950s hasn't quite come together.
In the 1960s, Pakistan Railways was said to own one-third of the city's land, and today the company is still run from a towering colonial-era palace, where clerks scurry between offices down polished corridors.
The video was shot in three different locations across Moscow: a kitsch fort above the city's Ismailovsky market; an abandoned and unheated Soviet-era palace of culture; and a disused jail.
As the capital of the State of Karnataka and India's information technology hub, Bangalore has lots to offer: lush parks and gardens, a remarkably diverse restaurant scene, a raj-era palace and several beautiful churches, temples and mosques, not to mention temperatures in the 70s and 80s year round.
The final sizzle was provided by the Eddie Torres Latin Dance Company, putting a little bit of the famous mambo-era palace, the Palladium -- by way of Las Vegas -- into the show, dancing mambo in front of the orchestra and switching to Lindy Hopping for the jazz portions of "3-D Mambo".
Tens of thousands have taken to the streets to protest President Mamadou Tandja's slow-moving coup d'état, as his critics call it: his plan to stay beyond the legal limit of two terms in his colonial-era palace, a gleaming oasis of whitewashed order amid dilapidated government buildings and mud-brick houses.
In dynastic eras, palace upheavals were often catalyzed by paranoia and jealousies within the imperial family.
The U.S. has carried out about 600 airstrikes since operations began Aug. 8. Abadi made the plea at a Saddam Hussein-era palace that serves as his offices.
Azze Hrawe Palace, a former Mamluk-era palace belonging to Ali ibn Abi al-Fadl al-Azzhari, a subordinate of Baibars, the Mamluk sultan, is now the National Folklore Museum.
