CAIRO — During an anti-government demonstration on Friday, protesters hurled fire bombs over the wall of Egypt's presidential palace, setting fire to a gatehouse in a symbolically potent show of disregard for the country's leader.
As word of the president's pending resignation spread, thousands of miners, students and Indians crowded the Plaza de San Francisco near the presidential palace, setting off sticks of dynamite and shouting anti-government slogans.
"We will rise above Hollywood," he says in his Ming dynasty gown, gesturing his arms around the palace setting as the evening's shadows grow.
Mosheh's mother, Yocheved, leads him to Bitia's palace, set amid the colonnades that support the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
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Or head for a rubdown at Sentosa's Spa Botanica (65-6371-1318; www.spabotanica.com), a pleasure palace set inside tropical gardens and complete with an open-air volcanic mud bath.
"For that I would go to St James's Palace, set up the easel and paints, and wait for the Queen to arrive.
Doubles from €84 B&B, +351 258 808 200, meloalvimhouse.com Two metro stops from Porto's centre, Castelo Santa Catarina is a crenellated Gothic palace set in its own mature gardens.
"Tango Palace," set in a smoky tavern to music described as traditional, was well danced but didn't add much to the currently ubiquitous genre.
Balanchine knew these ballets well, having been a child dancer in St Petersburg, performing in the finest silk and velvet costumes before fabulous palace sets that cost the Tsar countless thousands of roubles.
Not just boutique but super-bijou, this minuscule, highly chilled two-day urban festival in the grounds of Fulham Palace set out to combine nature, literature, poetry, psychogeography, silent film screenings, a genuinely eclectic musical lineup and global eats in a park setting near the river: a hip village fete, really.
