Horse Stables

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Aachen Cathedral During the occupation of the city by French revolutionary troops, the cathedral was temporarily used as a stable.
Ancient Kyoto Kyoto's sacred horse stable at Kamigamo Shrine
Bahla Fort Bahla Fort's horse stalls
Biblical Tells Megiddo Stables
Blenheim Palace Now an indoor cinema
Bukhara Khanate Stables inside the Ark Fortress
Byblos The former Crusade cathedral was used as horse stables by the Arabs.
City of Luxembourg The 14th-century “Tutesall,” was used at the time as a stable. Today, the Tutesall is part of the Neümunster Abbey cultural complex.
Cordoba Cordoba Royal Stables (1572)
Danube Limes Several forts along the Danube had garrisons with equestrian units. These forts therefore had horse stables, like in Zeiselmauer (ID 28a-d). The auxiliary fort in Carnuntum (ID No 31) was an equestrian camp. Remnants of horse stables have been identified in several of the construction phases.
Drottningholm Near the entrance
Engelsberg Ironworks
Fasil Ghebbi
Fujisan Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sangen Jinja has a sacred horse stable.
Gammelstad 6 of the former 300 are left among the church cottages
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz In Wörlitzer Park (18th century)
Hortobágy
Incense Route of the Negev Mamshit
Itsukushima Shrine Sacred Horse Stable at the entrance to the shrine
Kladruby nad Labem
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape Stables of the castle of Lednice
Litomysl Castle
Lower German Limes Dormagen: "The fort of Durnomagus provides important evidence for the understanding of cavalry forts: it was here that for the first time, stable pits for horses were attested inside barracks through archaeological excavations. This key feature is essential for understanding the daily life of Roman cavalry soldiers." (Nomination file, p. 107)
Lübeck next to Burgtor
Mafra At the Tapada
Malbork Castle At the Karwan in the Fore Castle
Mantua and Sabbioneta Pallazo Té was built at the location of the horse stables of the Gonzaga family. Its main room depicts the favourite horses.
Maulbronn Monastery Stables of Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (now Rathaus)
Meknes Royal Stable
Moravian Church Settlements Prætorius Square functions as the town’s secondary square and was originally a closed yard behind the Moravian Church’s hotel. Following Kongensgade’s expansion in 1938, the former sta- bles for travellers’ horses were torn down, creating an open square. (nom file)
Nikko Nikko's sacred stable at Toshogu Shrine
Old City of Jerusalem Solomon's Stables
Orkhon Valley Ordu-Baliq
Pienza Below the garden of the Piccolomini Palace "is a vaulted stable that had stalls for 100 horses." (Wikipedia)
Potsdam Orangerie, now a film museum
Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
Rome Stables of Emperor Augustus
Salzburg The one next to the festival halls and the Neutor served the court stables that - which actually were what are now the Festival Halls, thus the name "Hofstallgasse" or "Court stable lane" for the street.
Schwerin Residence Ensemble the Marstall (Royal Stables)
Schönbrunn Stables and coach-houses
Studley Royal Park "The Palladian Studley Royal House was originally the stables for the Aislabie family's mansion on the Studley Royal estate near Ripon."
Sviyazhsk Complex of buildings of the Assumption Monastery stable yard ... During conservation the Stable’s yard regained its initial image which was distorted in Soviet times. At present there are workshops and craftsmen’s stalls, the café “The Tavern”, a small hotel, the stables and a riding hall in the yard. (Nom file)
Versailles Now the "Academie du Spectacle Equestre"
Vienna Hofburg stables of the Lipizzaner horses
Vlkolinec

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