Nero's Golden Palace to partly reopen
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Nero's Golden Palace will partly reopen to visitors next week, offering rare insight into archaeologists' efforts to preserve the first-century imperial residence from decay and humidity.
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Normally a sanctuary of scholarly meditation, the Vatican Library has been the scene of unusually hectic activity lately, as word has spread that it will close in July for a three-year renovation.
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La Scala, one of the world's most celebrated opera theaters, reopened to the public and to music Tuesday after nearly three years of renovation that cost about &#36;67 million.
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Milan's La Scala opera house is set to reopen its doors to the public on December 7 with a gala event after undergoing two and a half years of renovations often mired in controversy.
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When the infamous emperor Nero fell from power in 68 A.D., weakened by military revolts, his successors decided no personal trace of his reign should remain. They covered with debris the giant and sumptuous Domus Aurea -- the Golden House -- that he built on a hill in central Rome. They replaced an adjacent artificial lake with the Colosseum.
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New York&#39;s Museum of Modern Art reopened to the public on Saturday after a two-year, $825 million (445 million pound) renovation and expansion that about doubled its size.
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The Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, one of the world's finest museums when it opened in 1906, will undergo complete renovation of its galleries.
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The state&#39;s first legal bordello is set to reopen, but the notorious Mustang Ranch name may be shut out of the action. The Storey County Commission has granted a brothel license
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Greece can expect the return of two ancient masterpieces, including a 4th century BCE gold funerary wreath, under an agreement with California's J. Paul Getty Museum, announced on Monday.Comment
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Khafre, the second-largest of the three Great Pyramids at Giza, outside Cairo, is to reopen on Saturday after being closed for nearly two years for repairs and restoration, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said.
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An accident-plagued fountain commemorating Princess Diana re-opened to the public but with restrictions on its use after almost a month of modifications.
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The fully restored former refuge of President Abraham Lincoln was brought back into the public view Monday during a Presidents Day ceremony.
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NEW ORLEANS - A judge has partially lifted a court order that required a New Orleans hotel to shut down due to rat infestation.  Two floors of the New Orleans Grand Palace Hotel's 17 floors reopened for guests on Friday, after Civil District Judge Nadine M. Ramsey lifted the order.
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Milan's La Scala opera house reopened on Tuesday after a three-year renovation with dazzling displays both on stage and off.
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Most of the elegant Pierre Hotel will close for at least a year as it undergoes a $100 million renovation.
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The last two frescoes painted by  Renaissance master Michelangelo are to be restored to their  original brilliance, the director general of the Vatican  Museums said on Wednesday.
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Rome rolled out the red carpet to welcome back Valentino Garavani, decking out a historic museum with his sweeping gowns and restoring an ancient temple by the Colosseum to host festivities celebrating the Italian designer.