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The origins of the Summer Palace date back to the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty.In 1153, when the fourth ruler, Wanyan Liang (r. 1150–1161), moved the Jin capital from Huining Prefecture (in present-day Acheng District, Harbin, Heilongjiang) to Yanjing (present-day Beijing), he ordered the construction of a palace in the Fragrant Hills and Jade Spring Hill in what is now the northwest of Beijing.
The Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanmingyuan (traditional Chinese: 圓明園; simplified Chinese: 圆明园; pinyin: Yuánmíng Yuán; lit. 'Gardens of Perfect Brightness') or Yuanmingyuan Park, [1] originally called the Imperial Gardens (traditional Chinese: 御園; simplified Chinese: 御园; pinyin: Yù Yuán), and sometimes called the Winter Palace, [2] [3] was a complex of palaces ...
Stroganov Palace: Summer Palace: Tsarskoye Selo: Pushkin: Vorontsov's Palace: Saint Petersburg: Winter Palace Serbia: Stari Dvor: Belgrade: lit. "Old Palace"; official residence of the King from 1884 to 1922; now Belgrade City Hall Novi Dvor: lit. "New Palace"; official residence of the King from 1922 to 1934; now the seat of the President of ...
Frederick regularly occupied the palace each summer throughout his lifetime, but after his death in 1786 it remained mostly unoccupied and neglected until the mid-19th century. In 1840, 100 years after Frederick's accession to the throne, his great-grandnephew Frederick William IV and his wife moved into the guest rooms.
Schönbrunn Palace (Austrian German: Schloss Schönbrunn [ˈʃlɔs ʃøːnˈbʁʊn] ⓘ; Viennese German: Schloss Scheenbrunn) was the main summer residence of the Habsburg rulers, located in Hietzing, the 13th district of Vienna.
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Bang Pa-In Royal Palace (Thai: พระราชวังบางปะอิน), also known as the Summer Palace, is a palace complex formerly used by the Thai kings. It lies beside the Chao Phraya River in Bang Pa-in District , Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province in Thailand .