Fushimi was originally built several years earlier, as a luxurious palace for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but was destroyed by an earthquake in 1596.

The Paradise Palace was built in 1391 as a palace of the House of Este.

Norwich Castle was built as a royal palace for William the Conqueror at a time when most buildings were small, wooden structures.

The Rashaya citadel or Citadel of Independence has been declared a national monument, having been first built as a palace by the Shihab family in the 18th century.

P Map Formerly the Palace Theatre, this neoclassical beauty on pl Iskusstv (Arts Sq) was built in 1801 as a palace.

She had intrigued with Hugh Capet, who built it as a palace, and started the long reign of the Capetuan kings.

The buildings were originally built as a palace.

He also had the Marmorpalais built within its grounds as a royal palace in 1787-97.

It was built by the plans of the Triestine architect Max Fabiani from 1902 as a Mediterranean palace from massive brick and completed in 1904.

About four short city blocks to the east of Kyongbok is Ch'angdok, built in 1405 as a detached palace.