Halifax Town Hall is a grade II* listed, 19th century town hall in the English town of Halifax, West Yorkshire. It is notable for its design and interiors by Charles Barry and his son, Edward Middleton Barry, and for its sculptures by John Thomas.
Burnley is a town in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is 21 miles north of Manchester and 20 miles east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun.
The town is located near countryside to the south and east, with the smaller towns of Padiham and Nelson to the west and north respectively. It has a reputation as a regional centre of excellence for the manufacturing and aerospace industries.
The town began to develop in the early medieval period as a number of farming hamlets surrounded by manor houses and royal forests, and has held a market for more than 700 years. During the Industrial Revolution it became one of Lancashire's most prominent mill towns; at its peak it was one of the world's largest producers of cotton cloth, and a major centre of engineering.
Burnley has retained a strong manufacturing sector, and has strong economic links with the cities of Manchester and Leeds, as well as neighbouring towns along the M65 corridor. In 2013, in recognition of its success, Burnley received an Enterprising Britain award from the UK Government, for being the "Most Enterprising Area in the UK". For the first time in more than fifty years, a direct train service now operates between the town's Manchester Road railway station and Manchester's Victoria station, via the newly restored Todmorden Curve, which opened in May 2015.
Burghley House is a grand sixteenth-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the Cecil family. The exterior largely retains its Elizabethan appearance, but most of the interiors date from remodellings before 1800. The house is open to the public on a seasonal basis and displays a circuit of grand and richly furnished state apartments. Its park was laid out by Capability Brown.The house is on the boundary of the civil parishes of Barnack and St Martin's Without in the Peterborough unitary authority of Cambridgeshire. It was formerly part of the Soke of Peterborough, an historic area that was traditionally associated with Northamptonshire. It lies 0.9 miles south of Stamford and 10 miles northwest of Peterborough city centre.
The house is now run by the Burghley House Preservation Trust, which is controlled by the Cecil family.
El castillo de Hohenzollern ? es un castillo situado 50 kilómetros al sur de Stuttgart vinculado a los orígenes de la Dinastía Hohenzollern, familia que llegó al poder durante la Edad Media y gobernó Prusia y Brandeburgo hasta el final de la Primera Guerra Mundial.
El castillo se encuentra en la cumbre del monte Hohenzollern a una altitud de 855 metros, cerca de Hechingen, en el Jura de Suabia. La primera parte del castillo se construyó durante el siglo XI y quedó completamente destruido en 1423 tras un asedio de 10 meses de una alianza de las ciudades imperiales de Suabia.
Entre 1454 y 1461, se erigió un segundo castillo mayor y más sólido que sirvió como refugio a la familia de la dinastía de Hohenzollern, de origen suabo, en tiempos de guerra, incluyendo la Guerra de los Treinta Años. A finales del siglo XVIII el castillo había perdido su importancia estratégica y cayó en el abandono, lo que condujo a que muchos de sus elementos fueran derribados. Actualmente el único resto del castillo medieval es la capilla de San Miguel.
Un tercer castillo, que es el actual, fue edificado por orden de Federico Guillermo IV de Prusia entre 1846 y 1867 bajo la dirección de Frederico Augusto Stüler, que se inspiró en la arquitectura neogótica inglesa, así como en los castillos del Loira. El castillo fue concebido como un homenaje a la dinastía Hohenzollern, de manera que ningún miembro de la familia residió en él hasta 1945, fecha en que se mudaron el príncipe Guillermo de Prusia y su esposa Cecilia de Mecklemburgo-Schwerin, que están enterrados en el castillo.
Entre los tesoros históricos que hoy alberga el castillo se encuentra la corona de Guillermo II, algunos efectos personales de Federico II de Prusia y una carta de George Washington en la que agradece al Barón von Steuben el servicio de la Casa de Hohenzollern en la Guerra de Independencia de Estados Unidos. El castillo es hoy un destino turístico muy popular.
The Bruce Museum is a museum in downtown Greenwich, Connecticut with both art and natural history exhibition space. The Bruce's main building sits on a hill in a downtown park, and its tower can be easily seen by drivers passing by on Interstate 95. Permanent exhibits include minerals, area Native American history and culture, changes in the area landscape and environment by human activity, and dioramas of Connecticut woodland wildlife and birds. The museum hosts changing exhibitions of art, photography, natural history, science, history and culture.
A second location, the Bruce Museum Seaside Center, is maintained at Greenwich Point Park, focusing on beach-related exhibits, including a touch-tank. The museum also has a "Brucemobile" with exhibits in a traveling van for outreach education. The museum hosts frequent lectures, classes and social events.
La Universidad Brown es una universidad privada estadounidense localizada en Providence, en el estado de Rhode Island. Es una de las ocho universidades que conforman la Ivy League, y en este contexto es una de las universidades más prestigiosas del mundo. Es la séptima institución de educación superior más antigua en los Estados Unidos y una de las nueve establecidas antes de la Independencia en 1776.[1]
Brown tiene una población estudiantil de alrededor de 5701 estudiantes de pregrado y unos 1894 de posgrado.
Broughton House is an 18th-century town house standing on the High Street of Kirkcudbright, Scotland. It was the home of Scots impressionist artist E. A. Hornel between 1901 and his death in 1933. During this time Hornel remodelled the house and created the Japanese-influenced gardens. Since 1997 it has been in the care of the National Trust for Scotland, and is maintained as "a living museum of Hornel’s life and work". The house is a category A listed building, and the gardens are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.
Britannia Royal Naval College , commonly known as Dartmouth, is the naval academy of the United Kingdom and the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy. It is located on a hill overlooking the port of Dartmouth, Devon, England. Royal Naval officer training has taken place in Dartmouth since 1863. The buildings of the current campus were completed in 1905. Earlier students lived in two wooden hulks moored in the River Dart. Since 1998, BRNC has been the sole centre for Royal Naval officer training.
Bristol Central Library is a historic building on the south side of College Green, Bristol, England. It contains the main collections of Bristol's public library.
Built in 1906 by Charles Holden, its design was influential in the development of Edwardian Free Style architecture. Holden would later go on to build the Edward VII Memorial Wing of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, giving Bristol two of its most highly regarded Edwardian buildings. The Library has been designated by Historic England as a grade I listed building.
Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum is a history museum in Braunschweig, Germany, operated by the state of Lower Saxony. The museum is scattered on four locations: Vieweghaus, Hinter Ägidien , Kanzlei and Bauernhausmuseum .
The collection covers 500,000 years and includes objects from the history of the Braunschweig area, including culture, economy, technology, folk arts, and social history. Today, the BLM hosts a collection of 600,000 to 800,000 objects.
The Brauer Museum of Art is home to a collection of 19th- and 20th-century American art, world religious art, and Midwestern regional art. It is located in the Valparaiso University Center for the Arts on the campus of Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, US. Prior to the museum's opening, the university's collection was housed and displayed within several buildings across campus. It was named the Brauer Museum of Art in 1996 to honor the collection's long-time director and curator, Richard H. W. Brauer.
La Puerta de Brandeburgo es una antigua puerta de entrada a Berlín y uno de los principales símbolos tanto de la ciudad como de Alemania. No se trata de un arco de triunfo, sino que era el acceso, a modo de propileos, al «Nuevo Berlín» de la época. Está situada en el centro actual de la ciudad, en la Plaza de París, formando el final de la avenida Unter den Linden y marcando el comienzo del gran parque Tiergarten y de la avenida Straße des 17. Juni. En las cercanías también se encuentran el Reichstag y la Potsdamer Platz. Importantes sucesos en la historia de Berlín están ligados a la Puerta de Brandeburgo.
El Palais des Beaux-Arts o Palacio de Bellas Artes de Bruselas, también conocido por la marca BOZAR es un espacio pluridisciplinar dedicado a la cultura, donde se celebran eventos artísticos de distintos campos: música, artes plásticas, teatro, danza, literatura, cine o arquitectura.
El palacio fue construido por Victor Horta entre 1922 y 1929 en estilo art déco.
La Biblioteca Pública de Boston es la mayor biblioteca municipal de los Estados Unidos. Fue la primera biblioteca pública municipal de los Estados Unidos, la primera gran librería abierta al público en los Estados Unidos y la primera biblioteca pública que permitió el préstamo de sus fondos para llevárselos a casa.
De acuerdo con la Asociación de Bibliotecas Americanas, esta biblioteca tiene más de 15 millones de libros y es la tercera más grande de los Estados Unidos después de la Biblioteca del Congreso y la de la Universidad de Harvard.
Sus colecciones incluyen además 600.000 fotografías, obras de Rembrandt, Durero, Goya, Daumier, Toulouse-Lautrec y 350.000 mapas antiguos.
Marinmuseum is a maritime museum located on Stumholmen island, in Karlskrona. It is Sweden's national naval museum, dedicated to the Swedish naval defense and preservation of the country's naval history.
