The Kedaton of Ternate is the palace of one of Indonesia’s oldest sultanates, a spice kingdom that once shaped world trade. Explore its regalia, its volcanic setting and its living traditions in the Maluku islands.

Discover the Konstantinovsky Palace at Strelna near Saint Petersburg, Peter the Great’s dream of a Russian Versailles, ruined over the centuries and spectacularly restored as a modern palace of state.

The world knows the Louvre as the greatest museum on earth, the home of the Mona Lisa and countless other treasures, visited by more people than any other art gallery

Explore the Menshikov Palace in Saint Petersburg, the first great stone palace of Peter the Great’s capital, famous for its blue and white Dutch-tiled rooms.

The royal palace of Klungkung in Bali, seat of the paramount Dewa Agung, preserves the astonishing painted pavilions of Kertha Gosa and the floating Bale Kambang. Explore its art, history and enduring meaning.

At the foot of Edinburgh’s ancient Royal Mile, where the medieval streets of the old town give way to open parkland beneath a dramatic volcanic hill, stands the official residence

High on a wooded crag above the town of Sintra, wrapped for much of the year in the mists that roll off the Atlantic, stands one of the most extraordinary

A short distance from Lisbon, in the town that gave it its name, stands a palace that seems to have drifted straight out of eighteenth-century France and settled improbably on

Some buildings are simply large. A few are so ambitious, so total in their vision, that they reshape the very idea of what a building can be. The Palace of

Discover the Palace on the Isle in Warsaw’s Royal Baths park, the neoclassical summer retreat of Poland’s last king, a palace that seems to float on the water amid one of the city’s loveliest parks.