Sentences with phrase «century wealthy merchants»

Hundreds of actors in period clothing animate the streets during summer, playing the roles of 18th century wealthy merchants, destitute soldiers, and shopkeepers.

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Best business hotel: Built in the first decade of the 20th century, Ryan Mansion occupies the former home of James Ryan, one of Newfoundland's wealthiest merchants.

The Waldensians were proto - Protestants, followers of Peter Valdes, a wealthy, twelfth - century merchant who gave his goods to the poor and, over the protests of his bishop, began to preach the gospel.

A moderately wealthy nineteenth - century merchant family, they had become impressively wealthy in tobacco, then excessively wealthy in textiles, and now obscenely wealthy in banking.

Set in the rigid society of 17th - century Amsterdam, this jewel box of a debut follows a young wife after her marriage to a wealthy merchant.

It's lined by beautiful buildings and houses dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, once owned by wealthy merchants.

Interested in learning about the time of the Vikings (late 8th century to the mid-11th century) and the German Hanseatic League of wealthy merchant traders during the 13th to 15th centuries, we visited picturesque towns in Scandinavia, like Copenhagen, Denmark; Tallinn, Estonia; and Bergen, Norway and experienced firsthand the gilded grandeur of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Villa Rufolo was built in the 13th century by a wealthy merchant family.