This publication contains information not only about the palaces, complexes and ensembles that everyone is talking about - Buckingham Palace, the Louvre Palace Complex, the Winter Palace, the White House, the Sanssouci Palace and Park Ensemble, but also about a few famous, but no less beautiful and majestic - the Palace of Knossos, the Palace of the Maharaja, the Palazzo Pubbliko, the palace and park ensemble of Lazenki, the Bakhchisaray Palace, the palace of the Kuskovo estate, the Katsura palace ensemble, etc. After reading the book, you will find out when, by whom and by whose order these pearls of architecture were erected and what significant events took place here. In addition, this "encyclopedia" of palaces will tell you about little-known, but very interesting facts: for what merits the Duke of Marlborough received Blenheim Palace as a gift from Queen Anne, where and when an exhibition of items from the sunken Titanic was held, in which Spanish palace stained glass windows and the tiles are made according to the drawings of the great Gaudi, how many people worked on the creation of a grandiose architectural ensemble in the Celestial Empire - the Gugun Palace.The publication is beautifully illustrated and will be a real gift for the traveler.