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Fredensborg Palace is a seasonal retreat for the Danish royals often used in the summer months, built on the island of Zealand as a country seat for Frederik IV in 1719.—
Janine Henni,
Peoplemag,
16 Apr. 2024 Priorat was once a country seat for the Barcelona elite and a fine wine region, but phylloxera (a pest that destroys grapevines) swept through in the early 1900s, depleting the wine industry.—
Maya Kachroo-Levine,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Nov. 2023 Spanberger splashed onto the Virginia political scene in 2017 as a former federal law enforcement officer and ex-CIA officer determined to flip a Trump-country seat blue for the first time in 50 years.—
Meagan Flynn,
Washington Post,
12 Nov. 2022 Highclere Castle is a 5,000-acre estate in Hampshire, England and has been the country seat of the Earls of Carnarvon since 1679.—
Robert Reiss,
Forbes,
3 June 2022 Wilton House has served as the country seat of the Earls of Pembroke for over 400 years, and the Palladian Bridge was constructed in 1736-1737 over the little River Nadder, just south of Wilton House.—
Emily Burack,
Town & Country,
3 Apr. 2022 Native craftsmen soon learned to produce their own masterpieces, such as the 15-foot-high staircase designed for Cassiobury House, the country seat of the earls of Essex, around 1677-80.—
Peter Saenger,
WSJ,
23 Jan. 2020