Why we love it: Travel through the home and you'll take a trip around ... a lower level heavily influenced by Asian architecture, and a Baroque-inspired basement with hand-carved woodwork.

In fact, Cheyne Walk has long been home to celebrated figures ... s 25-foot-wide façade is a striking example of English Baroque architecture, complete with reliefs of Sir Thomas More and ...

There are actually two palaces here – separated by an ornate 17th-century French-style garden – which some say are among the best examples of Baroque architecture in the world. Formerly home ...

Baroque architecture is closely entwined with the Counter-Reformation, an effort by the Catholic Church to respond to the rising challenge of Protestantism across Europe. Church leaders used ...