After a more than € 20,3 million renovation, that took 16 years, the Palace of Aigai, near the city of Vergina, in the north of Greece, has reopened on 7 January 2024. The palace is the largest surviving building from the classical Greek era. The palace in Aigai was built more than 2,300 years ago …
On 15 April 2022 Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, reopened its doors after a four-year renovation. The 17th century palace has been sustainably renovated, the interiors have been restored and the rooms redecorated. After the reopening visitors could choose two routes: through the seventeenth-century chambers of King Stadtholder William III or through the …
DDA Classic Airlines as of April 2023 once again offers sightseeing flights in the historical Douglas DC-3 Dakota airplane called “Prinses Amalia” at weekends. The flights will be organized for at least three months, or longer if there is enough money available. Scenic flights to the Dutch tulip fields, the Dutch coast, the Muiderslot, Dutch …
The Bayerisches Staatsministerium der Finanzen und für Heimat (Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Home Affairs) on 15 March 2023 presented the balance sheet for 2022 of the Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung (Bavarian Palace Department). Very pleased they say: “Almost three times as many visitors as in 2021! Bavaria’s palaces, castles, residences and cultural monuments once again …
Sadly in the early morning of Monday 13 February 2023 a selection of Chinese ceramics were stolen from the Princessehof in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. The objects were part of an installation dedicated to the Chinese New Year in the exhibition Feest! (Celebrate!). As far as known eleven pieces of ceramics were stolen. Seven were left …
In 2015 the royal castles of King Ludwig II of Bavaria were officially registered with the World Heritage Centre in Paris on the German tentative list for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Bavarian Palace Department is to submit the nomination dossier and management plan to the UNESCO Commission for review on 1 …
Since early 17th century it has been a tradition to daily hoist the Danish flag, called Dannebrog, at sunrise at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore (Helsingør), Denmark, and lower the flag at sunset. At the start of the new year 2023 the palaces and culture agency of Denmark, Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen, scrapped this practice. They said …
The ancestral seat of the Prussian Royal House and of the Hohenzollern Princes, Burg Hohenzollern, since December 2022 is better accessible. During the renovation of the castle walls also an elevator was added. Next to the Adlertor, the entrance gate to the castle, a plateau was added and a 25 metres high elevator shaft. Now …
The latest royal palace that will turn into a museum is Tatoi, Greece, that faces Mount Parnitha and is surrounded by forests. The estate is only 27 kilometres off the city centre of Athens, the capital of Greece. In January 2023 the minister of Culture of Greece, Lina Mendoni, confirmed in an interview with Real …
