Not to be missed: Royal Pavilion free day!

On Sunday 22nd January....if you haven't been before, this is the day to do it....

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   There really is nowhere quite like it...

 

The spectacular seaside palace of the Prince Regent is one of the most exotic buildings in the British Isles. To celebrate its purchase by the town of Brighton in 1850, admission charges are waived one day a year.

Built in stages between 1787 and 1823, the Royal Pavilion is remarkable for its exotic oriental appearance both inside and out. This magnificent royal pleasure palace was revered by fashionable Regency society and is still a distinctive landmark for vibrant Brighton & Hove today.

The Royal Pavilion is also home to some of the finest collections and examples of the chinoiserie style in Britain.

4/5 Pavilion Buildings

Brighton

BN1 1EE  Telephone  03000 290900

Just Fancy that!

    •    In the 1970 film On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, many of the flashback scenes were filmed at the Royal Pavilion.

    •    In Richard Attenborough's 1969 film Oh! What a Lovely War, the Music Room was used for the scene where the Austrian Emperor signs the declaration of war against Serbia.

    •    In the short animation The Snowman, the snowman and the boy fly over what seems to be Brighton; the Royal Pavilion and the Palace Pier can clearly be seen.

    •    It serves as the seaside retreat of King Edward in the 1995 version of Richard III, set in a dystopian 1930s Britain.

    •    In the episode "Dish and Dishonesty" of Blackadder the Third, Blackadder tells the Prince, who has been granted money by Parliament, to "take out the drawings for that beach hut at Brighton!", a reference to the Pavilion.

    •    In contemporary artist Fiona Tan's film A Lapse of Memory, an eccentric old man lives alone in a deserted building (Royal Pavilion).

    •    In the music video of All Time High sung by Rita Coolidge the Royal Pavilion features, seemingly as an Indian palace.