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With the beginning of the Salzburg Festival, the hotel became the social centre of the festival with the three stars, Max Reinhardt, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss, and the artists playing a part, living next door in the hotel to the heads of the European and overseas society. In 1988, the Gürtler family purchased the hotel.
Gardens of the palace Garden frontage with sala terrena. The original Palace was built in years 1623-1630 by Albrecht von Wallenstein, Duke of Mecklenburg (1583-1634), who made his name and fortune as the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial forces in the Thirty Years War.
Following the defeat of the Protestant faction at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620, the Catholic Lobkowicz family grew in influence and power for the next three centuries. Lobkowicz Palace took on a more formal, imperial role and functioned as the Prague residence when the family needed to be present at the seat of Bohemian power for ...
Barrandov Studios is a set of film studios in Prague, Czechia.It is the largest film studio in the country and one of the largest in Europe. Barrandov has made several major Hollywood productions, including Mission Impossible, The Bourne Identity, Casino Royale, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Zookeeper's Wife, Nosferatu, among ...
Cubist lamp by Emil Králíček, Jungmannovo náměstí, next to the Gothic Church of Our Lady of the Snows (). Czech architecture, or more precisely architecture of the Czech Republic or architecture of Czechia, is a term covering many important historical and contemporary architectural movements in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia.
On Julianne Moore: Sweater, skirt, slingbacks, Prada. On Tilda Swinton: Coat, sweater, skirt, loafers, Prada. Collier Schorr
Sam Heughan segues from playing 18th century hot Scot Jamie Frasier to 21st century traffic cop Danny in STARZ’s new six-episode limited series The Couple Next Door. And while the two characters ...
The statuary collection was acquired in the 16th century by Vespasiano Gonzaga [1] from antique dealers and collectors of northern Italy, as well as much of it carried away as booty by his father after the imperial Sack of Rome in 1527. [2] The hunting trophies originated from imperial collections in Prague.