Rising above the western edge of old Madrid, its long pale facade looking out across a great paved square, stands the largest royal palace in Western Europe. The Royal Palace

Founded by a French marshal turned northern king, Oslo’s neoclassical Royal Palace stands at the head of the city’s grand avenue as the heart of Norway’s monarchy.

At the top of Oslo’s grandest avenue, raised on a gentle hill above the heart of the Norwegian capital, stands a long, dignified building of pale yellow that closes the

The white timber Royal Palace of Tonga in Nuku’alofa is the seat of the only surviving indigenous monarchy in the Pacific. Explore its history, seafront architecture and enduring national meaning.

Discover the Stroganov Palace on Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg, Rastrelli’s baroque masterpiece built for a fabulously rich merchant dynasty whose name lives on in a world-famous dish.

In the mountains above Rio, the Imperial Museum of Petropolis was the beloved summer palace of Dom Pedro II, and it keeps the crown, the coaches, and the memory of Brazil’s vanished empire.

Explore the Tauride Palace in Saint Petersburg, built for Catherine the Great’s favorite Potemkin, famed for its great colonnaded gallery and its role as the home of Russia’s first parliament.

The Thanjavur Maratha Palace in Tamil Nadu is a vast complex of painted halls, a famous library and a renowned bronze gallery, built by Nayak and Maratha rulers. Explore its durbar hall, towers and treasures.

In the very center of Tokyo, one of the largest and most modern cities on earth, lies an oasis of green surrounded by wide moats and ancient stone walls. Within

On the banks of the river Neva in St Petersburg, its long green-and-white facade stretching in imperial splendour along the water and the great square before it, stands the palace