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CATHERINE PARK

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Ekaterinskiy Park, Pushkin/Tsarskoye Selo (Пушкин/Царское Село), Russia
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The old garden, the regular part of the park is to the south-east of the palace. The central aisle is oriented towards the Hermitage Pavilion. On the city side, the old garden is bounded by the waterfall canal; to the south-east, by Sadovaya Street (of the park); to the south, il donne on the large pond. This large pond includes a small island that you can reach with a kind of small towed ferry, which is taken at the Admiralty. The passage costs RUB 200 per person, but there is not much to see on this island.

The old garden is divided into four parties : the Upper Garden, on the three upper terraces facing palais ; the Lower Garden, from the third terrace to the canal at Poissons ; the Hermitage plot, from the canal to the Ponds at Cascades ; and the last, unnamed, from the Ponds of the Waterfalls to Sadovaya Street. In the Lower Garden, along the Hermitage Alley, were dug in 1719-1722 deux rectangular ponds. The Hermitage Pavilion, which gave its name to the part of the old garden, was built between 1744 et 1749 par Zemtsov and then, after 1754, by Rastrelli. Its facades echo the Catherine Palace.

Le chaînon connecting the old garden with regular lines to the landscaped park around the large pond is the Grotto Pavilion, built in 1749  by Rastrelli. Il s is one of the best examples of late Baroque. On the south-eastern edge of the pond, there is a group of three Admiralty pavilions built of red bricks. Not far from the island rises above the water the column of Tchesma, high above 14 m. Built to celebrate the memory of the victory over the Turkish squadron in the Bay of Tchesma in 1771, this column is decorated with symbolic rostrums and crowned with a bronze eagle breaking a crescent moon (symbol of victory). To the south-west of the pond is the light-coloured Turkish bath building, reminiscent of a mosque, built in 1850. Further down, the Podkapriznaya road got its name from the Grand Caprice and Petit Caprice, large rocky mounds and small tunnels under which this road passes. At the top of the Grand Caprice rises the Chinese bower, from which there is a beautiful view of the park (the name "caprice" is usually attached to the fact that after these mounds the path divides, and that it was here that Great Catherine, when she was walking, chose her route at the very last moment).


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BOUBOU01
Visited in june 2019
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Superbe parc
Très agréable promenade dans le parc du palais de Catherine, très vaste, avec ses beaux massifs ses nombreux étangs et ses pavillons aux nombreuses dorures.
Pauline1005
Visited in september 2018
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Le parc est magnifique, et assez vaste.
Tout au long de la promenade, vous découvrirez divers bâtiments (certains se visitent en supplément), qui s'agencent très bien dans le décor.
Les couleurs de l'automne ont rendu le lieu vraiment magique.
Mimi1753
Visited in june 2018
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Immense parc avec des bâtiments divers comme le pavillon chinois, le sauna en forme de mosquée, des petits ponts aux armatures dorées, un pavillon avec une magnifique mosaïque, etc... Belle ballade
Beautiful you walk around the lake; it is discovered that ducks and boats were placed better than the people in brick buildings reminiscent of the English-style. Various buildings were used to receive the ambassadors, sauna etc.

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