The grandest of Seoulโs five Joseon palaces, with a changing-of-the-guard ceremony and hanbok rental for free entry.
The Nguyen emperorsโ walled citadel and the royal tombs along the Perfume River, Vietnamโs answer to the Forbidden City.
The royal palaces of the Dahomey kings, their bas-reliefs and the story of the Amazon warriors.
Hausa palace of banco walls and painted geometry in Zinderโs old quarter.
Reconstructed thatched palace of the Rwandan kings, complete with the long-horned Inyambo cattle kept for ceremony.
Ruined royal palace below the Citadelle.
Latvia's grand baroque palace.
Official residence of the Grimaldis.
Former royal palace of Porto-Novo.
Baroque palace and art museum built by Peter the Great for Catherine I.
Earthen palaces of the kings of Dahomey, a UNESCO site.
Summer palace of stained-glass shebeke windows, built without a single nail.
Neo-Renaissance royal retreat in the Carpathian foothills at Sinaia.
Fifteenth-century royal complex at the heart of Bakuโs walled old city.
Renaissance Radziwill palace and park.
Vienna's imperial Habsburg palace and gardens.
Bronze Age Minoan palace outside Heraklion, legendary seat of King Minos.
Peter the Greatโs "Russian Versailles" with its cascade of gilded fountains.
The oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world, the Kingโs weekend home, with St Georgeโs Chapel and the State Apartments.
Imperial garden of lakes, pavilions and the Long Corridor on the edge of Beijing.
Beijing's vast imperial palace complex.
Moorish palace-fortress of Granada.
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