Mr. LAUER: The Summer Palace was the royal court's playground in the summer months.
Not for painter Guan Wei, whose great-great-grandfather was the Comptroller of the Summer Palace for the last Qing empress.
There is also the Summer Palace, a massive imperial garden built in the 18th century that is on the outskirts of the city.
In 1860, British troops burned the Yuanmingyuan, the imperial summer palace in Beijing, to the ground.
Christie's ignited controversy in China with the attempted sale in 2009 of two bronze sculptures of animal heads from the Old Summer Palace in Beijing that were part of the late Yves Saint-Laurent's collection.
At the time, media reported that Poly was willing to pay any price to reclaim the sculptures which French and British troops plundered from the Imperial Summer Palace in 1860.
Baysari uses the palace as a summer retreat, occupying it sporadically in the months of July and August.
Even a Michelin two-star chef couldn't tempt some acrophobic invitees to an exclusive lunch overlooking the Belgian royal palace last summer.
Then, after the Windsor Castle fire of November 1992, it was agreed that the tax payers should not pick up the bill for restoration, but that Buckingham Palace would be open to the public in the summer and the money raised in that way instead.
The exhibition, which is part of this summer's annual opening of Buckingham Palace, includes a host of priceless jewelry, such as the emerald-encrusted Vladimir Tiara and two brooches set with stones from the famous Cullinan Diamond, said to be the largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found, at nearly 3, 107 carats.
Then, in the summer of 1669, came Louis's order to dismantle the ancient lodge and build a grand new palace, based upon the unfinished stone envelope.
With many of the city's finest table, like Man Wah and Summer Palace, housed in five-star hotels, Chinese chefs regularly rub shoulders with top toques from Europe and America.
The television veteran is doing four nights this summer at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas (two just-completed acts on June 8-9 followed by two more shows on August 3-4).
Owners hope to open the famed Garden District restaurant Commander's Palace in late spring or early summer.
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