Tyntesfield is a Victorian Gothic Revival house and estate near Wraxall, North Somerset, England. The house is a Grade I listed building named after the Tynte baronets, who had owned estates in the area since about 1500. The location was formerly that of a 16th-century hunting lodge, which was used as a farmhouse until the early 19th century. In the 1830s a Georgian mansion was built on the site, which was bought by English businessman William Gibbs, whose huge fortune came from guano used as fertilizer. In the 1860s Gibbs had the house significantly expanded and remodelled; a chapel was added in the 1870s. The Gibbs family owned the house until the death of Richard Gibbs in 2001.
Tyntesfield was purchased by the National Trust in June 2002, after a fundraising campaign to prevent it being sold to private interests and ensure it would be open to the public. The house was opened to visitors for the first time just 10 weeks after the acquisition, and as more rooms are restored they are added to the tour.
The mansion was visited by 301,765 people in 2018.
The Royal Victoria Infirmary is a 673-bed tertiary referral centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
The hospital is part of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is a teaching hospital for the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
The Royal Military School of Music trains musicians for the British Army's twenty-two bands, as part of the Corps of Army Music. It is based at Kneller Hall, in Twickenham, west London; however, the Ministry of Defence has recently indicated that the site will be sold, and the school moved elsewhere.
El Conservatorio Real de Escocia, anteriormente llamado Academia escocesa Real de Música y Arte Dramático, es un conservatorio de baile, interpretación, música, producción y dirección de cine en el centro de Glasgow, Escocia. Fundado en 1845 como la Asociación Educativa Glasgow,[1] es el centro de artes escénicas más activo de Escocia, por encima de las 500 actuaciones públicas cada año.
El actual director es el pianista Jeffrey Sharkey, el presidente es Cameron Mackintosh, y está bajo el patronato de es S.A.R. El Duque de Rothesay.
Ashton Court is a mansion house and estate to the west of Bristol in England. Although the estate lies mainly in North Somerset, it is owned by the City of Bristol. The mansion and stables are a Grade I listed building. Other structures on the estate are also listed.
Ashton Court has been the site of a manor house since the 11th century, and has been developed by a series of owners since then. From the 16th to 20th centuries it was owned by the Smyth family with each generation changing the house. Designs by Humphry Repton were used for the landscaping in the early 19th century. It was used as a military hospital in the First World War. In 1936 it was used as the venue for the Royal Show and, during the Second World War as an army transit camp. In 1946 the last of the Smyth family died and the house fell into disrepair before its purchase in 1959 by Bristol City Council.
The estate developed from the original deer park and is Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. It is the venue for a variety of leisure activities, including the now-defunct Ashton Court Festival, Bristol International Kite Festival and the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta. It is home to charity The Forest of Avon Trust.
John Creasey MBE was an English crime writer, also writing romance and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.
He created several characters who are now famous, such as The Toff , Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron , Doctor Emmanuel Cellini and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. The most popular of these was Gideon of Scotland Yard, who was the basis for the television series Gideon's Way and for the John Ford movie Gideon's Day . The Baron character was also made into a 1960s TV series starring Steve Forrest as The Baron.
Carlisle Citadel or The Citadel is a former medieval fortress on English Street in Carlisle, Cumbria. It comprises two towers, both of which are Grade I listed buildings: the Nisi Prius Courthouse and the former Crown Court.
El Teatro Olímpico de Vicenza es un teatro diseñado por el arquitecto renacentista Andrea Palladio en 1580. Es el primer edificio de teatro cubierto con tejado de la historia moderna,[1] además de ser también el primer teatro cerrado del mundo y uno de los más antiguos de Europa.[2]Situado frente al Museo Cívico , fue la última obra de Palladio, quien murió sin verlo finalizado.
El edificio está ubicado dentro de una fortaleza medieval preexistente, y su realización fue encargada a Palladio por la Academia Olímpica para la puesta en escena de comedias clásicas. Su construcción, comisionada por la propia Academia, se inició en 1580 y el edificio fue inaugurado el 3 de marzo de 1585. Fue la sede de la Academia, fundada en 1555 por el propio Palladio.
Vincenzo Scamozzi, sucesor de Palladio tras su muerte, diseñó en 1585 un escenario a modo de trampantojo. La decoración imita el estilo clásico romano y produce el efecto en perspectiva de unas calles que se alejan hacia el horizonte. El proscenio, también llamado escena fija, se construyó en madera y estuco imitando al mármol. Esta estructura es uno de los elementos más destacados del Teatro Olímpico y el único que ha perdurado de la época renacentista, conservado además en un excelente estado.
El Teatro Olímpico debe su nombre a los Juegos Olímpicos de la Antigüedad instituidos por Hércules, símbolo y protector de la Academia Olímpica y del edificio. Es uno de los tres únicos teatros renacentistas que se conservan, junto con el Teatro all'antica en Sabbioneta y el Teatro Farnese en Parma, que se inspiraron en gran parte en él.
En 1994, el Teatro Olímpico fue incluido en la lista del Patrimonio de la Humanidad de la Unesco, al igual que otros edificios y villas palladianas de Vicenza. Actualmente se siguen programando en él obras de teatro y conciertos varias veces al año.
The Teatro all'Antica is a theatre in Sabbioneta, northern Italy; it was the first free-standing, purpose-built theater in the modern world. The Teatro all'Antica is the second-oldest surviving indoor theater in the world , and is, along with that theater and the Teatro Farnese in Parma, one of only three Renaissance theaters still in existence.
El Museo de Arte de Georgia , también conocido como Museo de Bellas Artes Shalva Amiranashvili, es uno de los principales museos de Georgia. Posee alrededor de 140,000 artículos de arte georgiano, oriental, ruso y otras artes europeas.
Sundby Church is a Church of Denmark parish church located on Amagerbrogade in Copenhagen, Denmark. Completed in 1870 to designs by Hans Jørgen Holm, it is the oldest church on the northern part of Amager.
Nikanor Onatsky Regional Art Museum in Sumy is a state museum in Sumy, Ukraine. Its collection is one of the best in Ukraine and contains works of native and from all over the world artists.
The Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters is a fine art museum in Zagreb, Croatia exhibiting the collection donated to the city by Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer in 1884. Located at 11 Nikola Šubić Zrinski Square, it forms part of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts .
The Strossmayer Gallery holding includes around 4,000 works, of which some 250 are on display, with the remainder in storage, or on display at other museums or gallery institutions in Croatia.
Stowe Nine Churches is a civil parish incorporating the settlements of Church Stowe and Upper Stowe in the English county of Northamptonshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 259.
La catedral de Estocolmo, conocida en Suecia como Storkyrkan o Sankt Nikolai kyrka , es la iglesia más antigua de Estocolmo y la sede de la diócesis de Estocolmo. Se encuentra en el barrio antiguo de la ciudad.
La iglesia figura por primera vez en una fuente escrita en 1279. Tras la reforma protestante, se convirtió en una iglesia luterana en 1527. Se convirtió en catedral cuando se creó la diócesis de Estocolmo en 1942 a partir de las diócesis de Upsala y de Strängnäs.
La iglesia, de una sola torre, está construida de ladrillo repellado y pintados sus muros de amarillo con detalles en blanco. Su estilo original corresponde al gótico del siglo XIII, pero el exterior fue remodelado de manera importante en estilo barroco cerca de 1740 por el arquitecto Johan Eberhard Carlberg.
Destaca una imagen de madera de San Jorge.
Stockwood Discovery Centre, formerly known as Stockwood Craft Museum, is one of two free admission museums situated in Luton . The museums in Luton are a part of a charitable trust, Luton Culture.
The discovery centre displays collections of local social history, archaeology, geology and rural crafts. It also houses the biggest collection of horse-drawn carriages in Europe, the Mossman Collection.
The external part of the Discovery Centre features extensive gardens. The Period Gardens, ranging from the Elizabethan Knot Garden to the Dig for Victory Garden, were created by Luton Council from the mid-1980s onwards. Redevelopment work in 2007 included the building of the Sensory Garden, World Garden and Medicinal Garden. It is one of the few places in the country where the work of acclaimed artist Ian Hamilton Finlay can be seen on permanent display. Improvement Garden is a classical garden in which Ian Hamilton Finlay sculptures are an integral part of the landscape.
