Secular structure, Palace

Agra Fort
The Fort has massive red walls, with an outline of 2.5 kilometers. It dates from the 16th century. Within the walls, palaces, mosques and reception rooms can be found.
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Ambohimanga
Ambohimanga is an archeological site that contains a ruined city, burial sites, and assorted sacred places.
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Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace is a large and monumental country house situated in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. The Palace, one of England's greatest houses in every sense of the word, was built between 1705 and circa 1722.
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Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
The Augustusburg and Falkenlust castles in Brühl are considered masterpieces of the rococo. They were developed in the 18th century for Clemens August, the archbishop and worldly ruler of Cologne.
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Changdeokgung Palace Complex
Changdeokgung (Palace) is the oldest of Seoul's Royal Palaces. It dates from 1405, and is still very well preserved.
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Drottningholm
The Royal Domain is praised by the Unesco as "the best example in Sweden of a Royal 18th-century residence .
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El Escurial
The Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de el Escorial was built at the behest of King Philip II. It was meant as a dwelling for God on Earth, at a time when the Protestant Reformation was shaking the foundations of Catholic Europa.
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Fasil Ghebbi
The founder of Gondar was Emperor Fasiladas who, tiring of the pattern of migration that had characterised the lifestyle of so many of his forefathers, moved his capital here in 1636 AD.
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Fontainebleau
The Royal Château of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal châteaux. The château as it is today is the work of many French monarchs, building on a structure of Francis I.
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Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is a series of landscape parks developed in the 18th century by Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau and his friend and adviser Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff.
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Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
The Castle and Gardens at Kromeríz are a Baroque aristocratic ensemble of residence and pleasure garden.
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Genoa
Le Strade Nuove consists of the Via Garibaldi, Via Balbi and Via Cairoli. They are known for their aristocrat houses and the Palazzi dei Rolli (palaces), and represent an innovative form of urban planning.
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Imperial Palace
When the capital of the Ming Empire was moved to Beijing in 1421, the emperors took up residence in the Imperial Palace.
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Kathmandu Valley
The monuments included under the wing of the Kathmandu-valley are: Kathmandu Durbar Square, Patan Durbar Square, Bhaktapur Durbar Square, Changu Narayan, Syambhunath Stupa, Pashupatinath and Bouddhanath Stupa.
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Litomyšl Castle
Litomysl Castle was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1999. The noble family of Pernstejn's rebuilt the original Mediaeval castle into a Renaissance castle in the second half of the 16th century.
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National History Park
Haiti´s National History Park consists of the Palace of Sans Souci, the Citadelle Laferrière, and the buildings of Ramiers.
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Potsdam
After two extensions in 1991 and 1998, this WHS now consists of the following places: Sanssouci, New Palace, Charlottenhof, New Garden, Babelsberg Park, Sacrow estate, Linstedt, Bornsted, Alexandrovka and many more small buildings and parks.
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Royal Palace at Caserta
The Complex of Caserta is recognized because of the way in which it was adapted to the surrounding landscape and integrated already existing elements.
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Royal Palaces of Abomey
The Royal Palaces of Abomey consist of a number of palaces, built between 1625 and 1900 within the same enclosure.
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Royal Palaces of Abomey
The Royal Palaces of Abomey consist of a number of palaces, built between 1625 and 1900 within the same enclosure.
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Schönbrunn
Schönbrunn Palace is the former Habsburg summer residence. In 1695 Fischer von Erlach sr. was asked to design a palace that could match Versailles.
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Summer Palace
There are two summer palaces around Beijing, one built after the other. The oldest one dates from the 18th century, when Emperor Qianlong created the Garden of Perfect Purity.
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Versailles
Versailles was the unofficial capital city of the kingdom of France from May 1682 (King Louis XIV moves the court and government permanently to Versailles) until September 1715 (death of Louis XIV and regency, with the regent Philippe d'Orléans returning to Paris), and then again from June 1722 (King Louis XV returns to Versailles permanently) to October 1789 (King Louis XVI forced to move back to Paris by the people of Paris).
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Würzburg Residence
In 1720, the building of this baroque palace started on request of Bishop Johann. It is made of yellow sandstone, which provides a golden glow.
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