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The Green House (Original title: La Casa Verde) is the second novel by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, published in 1966.The novel is set over a period of forty years (from the early part of the 20th century to the 1960s) in two regions of Peru: Piura, a dusty town near the coast in the north, and Peruvian Amazonia, specifically the jungle region near the Marañón river.
The 14th-century Palazzo Vecchio is still preeminent with its crenellated tower. The square is also shared with the Loggia della Signoria, the Uffizi Gallery, the Palace of the Tribunale della Mercanzia (1359) (now the Bureau of Agriculture), and the Palazzo Uguccioni (1550, with a facade attributed to Raphael, who however died thirty years before its construction).
Palazzo Vecchio by night. The Palazzo Vecchio (Italian pronunciation: [paˈlattso ˈvɛkkjo] "Old Palace") is the town hall of Florence, Italy.It overlooks the Piazza della Signoria, which holds a copy of Michelangelo's David statue, and the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi.
The Signoria of Florence (Italian: "lordship") was the government of the medieval and Renaissance Republic of Florence, [1] between 1250 and 1532. Its nine members, the Priori, were chosen from the ranks of the guilds of the city: six of them from the major guilds, and two from the minor guilds.
Piazza dei Signori is a city square in Verona, Italy. Buildings around the square. Palazzo della Ragione, Verona (Palazzo del Comune) ... La Casa della Piet ...
Casa Verde may refer to: . Subprefecture of Casa Verde, São Paulo; Casa Verde (district of São Paulo) Casa Verde High School, a high school in Casa Grande, Arizona; Casa Verde (Iron Guard), the building that served as headquarters for the Iron Guard, an interwar Romanian political movement.
Casa Verde (Official residence of the prime minister) Bosnia and Herzegovina ... La Fortaleza in Old San Juan is the oldest executive residence in continuous use in ...
Filippo Nani Mocenigo, Capitolare dei signori di notte, 1877. The criminal Lords of the Night are mentioned as early as the 12th century, first as two, and later as six nobles, with one for each district of Venice since 1260. Their name is derived from the initial responsibility of monitoring what was happening throughout the city during the night.