Highlights:

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• - Admire the famous Catherine Palace, once the summer residence of the Russian tsars

• - Visit the palace’s famed Amber Room

• - See the Russian gardening art in the park surrounding the palace

• - Explore the beautiful town of Pushkin on a small-group guided tour

• - Enjoy comfortable transportation by air conditioned car or minivan

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Description:

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Experience the grandeur of the Russian Baroque palace of Catherine the Great and unlock the secrets of the Amber Room – one of the world’s wonders. On this 5-hour tour you’ll travel from St. Petersburg to the town of Pushkin.

 

The Catherine Palace and park ensemble is a impressive monument of world-ranking architecture and park design dating from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. World famous architects, sculptors and painters realized the ideas of the crowned heads. Tsarskoye Selo is a fine example of Baroque and Classical architecture and it was the first place in the Russian capital where interiors decorated in the Moderne (Art Nouveau) style appeared.

 

The compositional centre of the ensemble is the Catherine Palace – the grand imperial summer residence , Rastrelli’s enormous late-Baroque palace, with its seemingly endless rows of gilded atlantes, has some of the most extravagant interiors in Europe, including the world-famous Amber Room.

 

Across the Catherine Park there are grand palaces and intimate pavilions, bridges and marble monuments, and also exotic structures imitating Gothic, Turkish and Chinese architecture that invest little corners of the parks with a romantic atmosphere.

 

Available: daily* *closed on Tue and last Mon of every month.