Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park certainly merits a visit by anyone in the area, especially enthusiasts of elaborate and fanciful ...
At first glance, Maligaimedu in the Ariyalur district looks like any other hamlet with a few houses and a mud road flanked by empty fields on both sid.
Sitting on the southwestern edge of the Innere Stadt, the 13th-century palace was the winter residence of the Habsburgs, and a center of power for some 600 years. These days, the Hofburg Palace is ...