Sentence examples for imperial residences from inspiring English sources

ROME — For decades now, excavations in the Roman Forum and on the Palatine Hill have yielded grand halls and imperial residences with fanciful frescoes and graceful stucco reliefs.

Famous in its day as one of the first botanical gardens in Europe, the garden is now mostly gone, dug up and carted away as generations of archaeologists have excavated the Palatine's imperial residences.

Four years later he transferred to Prague, which Rudolf had made the new imperial residence.

In the center is the former imperial residence of the Forbidden City.

Often an imperial residence in the Carolingian period, it became a free city and later joined the Hanseatic League.

The Imperial Residence, cathedral and nobles' district overlook the river Regnitz, with the more impoverished dwellings on the other side.

But in 1583 Rudolf transferred his court from Vienna to Prague, and the Bohemian capital became once more an imperial residence and a lively political and cultural centre.

The splendid secular buildings of the Baroque era proclaimed Vienna's stature as an imperial residence and one of the great world capitals.

The most famous of these is Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli (c. ad 120 130), which was a sumptuous imperial residence with parks and gardens on a grand scale.

The vehicle exploded near a row of marble bridges that once provided access to the former imperial residence known as the Forbidden City.

"It still seems surreal knowing that my dreams came true and I'm sitting here today as the Olympic champion," she said, glowing as she spoke to reporters at a former imperial residence in one of Beijing's biggest parks.