The chateau, a castlelike structure three hours from Paris by car, is holding weddings for the first time this summer.
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Its original tenant was a men's haberdashery called Finchley's, and a castlelike tower jutted from its regal facade — hence its nickname.
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Judging by the background on the desktop, a gothic scene framed by castlelike silhouettes, our target seemed to be planning a terrorist attack from Transylvania.
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When I arrived at the Delta Bessborough, one of a string of castlelike grand hotels built by the railways that are a Canadian signature, Jada was in the lobby bar.
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Scene City 11 Photos View Slide Show ' To get a handle on the party's sheer enormousness, it was best to ascend the breezy battlements of the four-story, castlelike structure.
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Pril, a retired electronic-music composer who favors phrases like "properly irreverent," is among the Smileys who now run what replaced the tavern: Mohonk Mountain House, a castlelike lakeside resort hotel of Edwardian and Victorian design, surrounded by bucolic views and very few charred stumps.
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I rounded a corner on my cross-country skis and took in an impressive sight that emerged out of the rustic landscape like a vision from the Brothers Grimm: a meadow dominated by a castlelike dark-wood villa, with gabled windows, a central cupola and huge icicles dangling from the roof.
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CANADA The lively mountain town of Banff in the Canadian Rockies was born to serve travelers who were tentative about scaling snowcapped peaks but excited about riding the Canadian Pacific Railway to some of the railroad's most elaborate hotels, including the castlelike Banff Springs Hotel (now the Fairmont Banff Springs).
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The Penguin holds court in a penguin-crowded, Phantom of the Opera-like sewer home. Keaton hides in a castlelike mansion, which perfectly mirrors its owner's inner remoteness. Comic strip purists will probably never be happy with a Batman movie. But Returns comes closer than ever to Bob Kane's dark, original strip, which began in 1939.
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Chiselled into it is the year 1596. In 1689, it was one of only six or seven buildings that were left standing after the French burnt the village down. It is now the only one left of those that escaped that blaze. At the turn of the millennium, it was attractively restored. The Sturmfedersches Schloss and the Koeth- Wanscheidsches Schloss were the Sturmfeder and Koeth-Wanscheid noble families’ castlelike manor houses, and have been restored.
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There is a castlelike building complex at the “Dr. Geier” ore and manganese pit, built between 1917 and 1919, as well as a miners’ village. The municipality is known for its vineyards, and as the site of a late 4th-century BC chariot burial that defines a stage in the La Tène culture that is generally known as "Waldalgesheim style". The lack of weapons recovered from the tomb and the fine gold torc, bracelets and anklets, have led archaeologists to infer that the deceased was a woman.
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It gives one the impression of a wealthy village characterized by the nobility's and the fashionable citizenry's buildings and that its structure even withstood the upheaval of the French Revolution. The three castlelike manor houses preserved almost unscathed by time also convey the tradition of this village that was jointly ruled in the Middle Ages by noble families. Right near each other and both singular are the English Gardens in the Upper Village's northwest and south. Asserting itself as at least the architectural peer of the noble buildings is the simultaneous church from 1746, which with its tower dating from the Middle Ages and built even taller in 1904 on the one hand forms a structural midpoint in the municipality, and on the other hand reflects the religious relations of this village that was ruled for three centuries as an Electoral Palatinate-Worms condominium.
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