Euxinograd
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Euxinograd is a late 19th-century Bulgarian former royal summer palace and park on the Black Sea coast, 8 kilometres north of downtown Varna. The palace is currently a governmental and presidential re
The interior
The statue of Neptune
The wall separating the beach for the government and for ordinary citizens.
View of the palace
Château de Saint-Cloud
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The château de Saint-Cloud was a château in France, built on a site overlooking the Seine at Saint-Cloud in Hauts-de-Seine, about 5 kilometres west of Paris. The gardens survive, and the estate is now
Euxinograd
…today dates from the reign of Knyaz (later Tsar) Ferdinand (r. 1887–1918). Ferdinand brought the pediment and other materials from the right wing of the Château de Saint-Cloud (a former French royal residence) in France to Bulgaria and integrated them into his new palace. Ferdinand commissioned Swiss architect Hermann Mayer…
The château and gardens, c. 1720
View of a design for Saint-Cloud
The Grotto at Saint-Cloud, by Israël Silvestre
Escalier d'honneur