Sentences with phrase «century grand canals»

Amsterdam is defined by its canals and perhaps one of the best walks is along the 17th century grand canals of the Grachtengordel («Canal Belt»)-- the Herengracht, Keizersgracht, and Prinsengracht are a must.

Upstream Gallery is very proud to announce its relocation to a 17th century grand canal house in Amsterdam's city centre.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Venice, where Peggy Guggenheim lived and which is now the location of her museum, is an unfinished 18th century Grand Canal Palace.

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Five connected historic palaces situated along the Grand Canal, with unsurpassed views of Santa Maria della Salute, the city's iconic 17th - century church.

In fact, it's hardly a hotel entrance at all and so easy to walk by if at all distracted by the charms of the grand Keizergracht canal opposite, quaintly sandwiched between 18th century homes.

Inspired by 15th to early 17th century Renaissance architecture and the urban planning of the city of Venice, The Ritz - Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal will have: one and two - bedroom villas, complete with private plunge pools, outdoor terraces and butler service; a rooftop terrace, two poolside bars and a lobby lounge and bar, all of which offer guests a great selection of drinks and bite - sized meals.

The Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam is comprised of six 17th and 18th century double - front canal palaces with a unique grand staircase built by the architect of Louis XIV, Daniel Marot.

Nestled in between the N7 and the N1, just a few minute's drive from the magnificent Canal Walk shopping complex, Century City, Grand West Casino, Hospitals, Wine Routes.

Distance to close - by attractions: - 10 min drive to Cape Town CBD and 15 min drive to Victoria & Alfred Waterfront - My City bus stop with direct connection to Civic Centre and V&A Waterfront just across the road - 10 min drive to Canal Walk / Century City, Ratanga Junction, Virgin Active Gym - 15 min drive to Grand West Casino - 25 min drive to Cape Town Int Airport - Walking distance to beach, Milnerton golf course, Milnerton tennis courts as well as shops (recently being renovated Centre Point) and restaurants

Visit the Grand Canal for many other famous sights, including the beautiful 16th century Rialto Bridge.

With private gardens — rarely found in Venice — and museum - worthy masterpieces, this 16th - century palazzo enjoys exceptional seclusion on the Grand Canal

Our 70 - square - metre «Signature Suite», looking out onto the Grand Canal, is situated on the noble floor of the sixteenth - century building.

The Grand Canal, the Bridge of Sighs, Saint Mark's Square with Saint Mark's Basilica and Saint Mark's Bell Tower, the Doges Palace, Correr Museum and the Ca Rezzonico Venetian 18th Century Museum are only a five - minute walk away.

The Venetian works were made in response to the four noble rooms of Palazzo Fontana, a 16th century building located on the Grand Canal in Venice.

Housed in a 17th century Baroque palace on the Grand Canal it is one of the eleven civic museums of the city.

The Galleria dell» Academia on the south bank of the Grand Canal houses one of the finest collections of pre-19th century Italian art in the world, with of course, a focus on the Venetian Masters.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the name not only of the collection of one of the most influential art patrons of the 20th Century, Peggy Guggenheim, but also of the Museum in Venice, which is housed in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, owned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and housed in the 17th century Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, world - renowned for its collection of European and American modern art.

With that money, she amassed one of the great collections of 20th - century modernist art, which she ultimately donated to her uncle Solomon's foundation, which maintains its New York Frank Lloyd Wright — designed museum, the Guggenheim Bilbao, an upcoming museum in Abu Dhabi, and Peggy's palazzo in Venice, which is open to the public and houses her collection in an enchanting setting on the Grand Canal.

For his Venice Biennale presentation, UK painter and printmaker Stephen Chambers has conjured a cast of 101 imaginary courtiers, whose quietly introspective, quizzical visages adorn the white walls of the Piano Nobile of Casa Dandolo, a 17th - century palazzo overlooking the Grand Canal, much as the typical court or ancestral portraits of the «great white male» adorn the walls of Europe's institutions and mansions.

Two walls of the 16th - century Ca» Dandolo Palace overlooking the Grand Canal in Venice are covered with drawings by the Iraqi ceramicist, 63, who was trained in Iraq and California.

Designed by architect Giorgio Massari and completed in the second half of the 18th century on the Grand Canal, the neoclassical - style building of Palazzo Grassi was renovated in 2006 after a design by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando.

After divorcing Ernst in 1946, she closed The Art of This Century Gallery and returned to Europe, opting to settle in Venice, Italy, where the modernist Guggenheim Venice Art Museum was duly opened in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal.

Perhaps the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the twentieth century, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is located in its founder's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice.

The Palazzo Barbaro on the Grand Canal in Venice has played host to Henry James, who used it as the setting of The Wings of the Dove; to Isabella Stewart Gardner, who designed her museum in Boston to mimic the space's splendor; to other members of the Boston Brahmin, who brought over guests such as John Singer Sargent and Robert Browning; and to centuries of Venetian elite, who occupied the opulent confines since it opened in 1465, which was, you know, a few decades before the Italian Christopher Columbus came to America.