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Hace 3 días · The Queen's House, built as a link between the gardens of Greenwich Palace and the royal park, was the first essay in pure renaissance design in England. Like the earlier villa of Pope Julius in Rome and the later Petit Trianon in the park of Versailles, it was designed to be decorated and furnished with the most lavish care, but was ...
Hace 4 días · Within a few weeks of Humphrey's death, Margaret of Anjou seized the Palace at Greenwich and occupied it herself. According to the accounts of Kettlewell, the Clerk of His Majesty's Works, who at that time occupied the position formerly held by William of Wykcham and Geoffrey Chaucer, the improvements which Margaret ordained took five years to complete and made the house of beauty a house more ...
Hace 3 días · Greenwich-palace. Rebuilt by Humphrey Duke of Gloucester. Residence of the Kings of England at Greenwich. Birth of Henry VIII. Great feasts held at Greenwich by that monarch. First masquerade in England. Birth of Queen Mary. Birth and christening of Queen Elizabeth. A muster of the citizens, and tilting, before the Queen in Greenwich ...
Hace 5 días · The Nelson Pediment is a Coade stone memorial set in a triangular architrave in the King William Courtyard of the Old Royal Naval College. The Immortality of Nelson tympanum designed by artist Benjamin West, who also produced the famous painting of the same name, was commissioned by Greenwich Hospital.
Hace 3 días · Discover Red House, the iconic Arts and Crafts home of William and Jane Morris, cared for by the National Trust.
Hace 4 días · 10 significant (and historic) London trees Elizabeth I Greenwich Henry VIII Tudor Twentieth century Anne Boleyn Greenwich Greenwich Palace Greenwich Park King Henry VIII Queen Elizabeth I Queen Elizabeth's Oak
Hace 2 días · Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a 2,430-meter (7,970 ft) mountain ridge. Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometers (50 mi) northwest of Cusco.
