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      All day: the gates and towers of Königsberg

      ⏱ 9 h🚶 6.4 km + 🚕🍽 2📍 11 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The ring of fortifications in a day: from the Brandenburg Gate through Southern Park to the Friedland Gate, then along Litovsky Val to the towers of the Upper Lake.

      🏛 History and architecture
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      1. 1
        🏛 Brandenburg Gate
        ул. Багратиона, 137
        A Gothic city gate of the 17th–19th centuries that cars still drive through.
        Start at the only gate that cars still drive through. Walk round it on the city side — there are portraits of Boyen and Aster.
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        Brandenburg Gate
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Brandenburg Gate
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY 4.0
        • The first gate here was built in 1657 — a wooden one on the road to Brandenburg Castle.
        • The gate got its present look with pointed gables during the rebuilding of 1843.
        • It is the only city gate in Kaliningrad still used as a through road.
        • The gate bears portraits of Field Marshal Hermann von Boyen and General Ernst von Aster.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🌳 Southern Park
        пр. Калинина / ул. Дзержинского
        🚪 entrance from Zheleznodorozhnaya Street
        🆓 free entry
        A 19th-century landscape park with ponds and ravelins; the Friedland Gate stands on its edge.
        Through Southern Park to the ponds and ravelins, 20 minutes at an easy pace.
        🚪 exit to Kalinin Avenue
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        Southern Park
        © Anton Yefimov · CC BY 3.0
        • The landscape park was laid out on 9 December 1841 on the orders of Frederick William IV.
        • The park has three ponds connected to the Pregolya, and on its edge are the Friedland Gate and ravelins with moats.
        • The East Prussia Hall — Germany’s first indoor ice stadium — stood here; only its foundations remain.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🖼 Friedland Gate Museum
        ул. Дзержинского, 30
        🎟 ticket
        A city gate in Southern Park with a museum that takes you on a walk through the streets of pre-war Königsberg.
        The museum in the gate is a virtual walk through early 20th-century Königsberg; allow an hour. Closed for cleaning on the first Friday of the month.
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        Friedland Gate Museum
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The gate was built around 1857–1862 — the exact date is unknown.
        • The museum was founded by the local historian Alexander Novik and officially established in 2002.
        • The main exhibition is a virtual walk through the streets of Königsberg in 1895–1910.
        • The sculptures on the gate have been restored: Feuchtwangen in 2005 and Zollern in 2008.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🍽 Parmezan restaurant on Oktyabrskaya
        Октябрьская ул., 12
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        Lunch at Oktyabrskaya, 12 — 10 minutes on foot.
        🍴 An Italian restaurant with a terrace and a children’s menu. What to order: carbonara, rabbit ravioli, pizza with roast beef and stracciatella, Baltic zander fillet.
      8. 🚕 taxi from Oktyabrskaya, 12 to the Sackheim Gate, ≈10 min
      9. 5
        🏛 Sackheim Gate
        ул. Литовский Вал, 61
        A 19th-century gate with four turrets on Moskovsky Prospekt — an art space since 2013.
        Then take a taxi to the Sackheim Gate, about 10 minutes.
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        Sackheim Gate
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The present gate was built in the mid-19th century on the site of an early 17th-century gate.
        • Until 2006 the gate was used as a warehouse; then it was restored.
        • In 2013 the Vorota (“Gate”) art platform opened here with exhibitions and concerts.
        • On the city side the gate is decorated with high reliefs of the Prussian generals Yorck and Bülow.
      10. 🚶 on foot
      11. 6
        🖼 King’s Gate
        ул. Фрунзе, 112
        🎟 ticket
        A castle-like gate with high reliefs of three rulers; inside is an exhibition about Peter the Great’s Grand Embassy.
        The King’s Gate opens at 11:00 (12:00 on Thursdays) and is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.
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        King’s Gate
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        King’s Gate
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The present gate was founded on 30 August 1843 in the presence of King Frederick William IV and completed in 1850.
        • The niches hold high reliefs of King Ottokar II of Bohemia, King Frederick I of Prussia and Duke Albrecht.
        • After the war the sculptures had their heads knocked off, and locals nicknamed them “the three headless kings”.
        • The gate was restored for Kaliningrad’s 750th anniversary in 2005; inside is an exhibition about Peter the Great’s Grand Embassy.
        • The name comes from Königstrasse, along which the Prussian kings rode from the castle to review the troops.
      12. 🚶 on foot
      13. 7
        🏛 Kronprinz Barracks
        ул. Литовский Вал, 38
        Red-brick defensive barracks with a round tower on Litovsky Val.
        Along Litovsky Val to the Kronprinz Barracks.
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        Kronprinz Barracks
        © Valdis Pilskalns · CC BY 3.0
        Kronprinz Barracks
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kronprinz Barracks
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The defensive barracks were built in 1843–1849 to a design by the military engineer Ernst von Aster.
        • The name comes from the Crown Prince’s grenadier regiment, which was quartered here.
        • The barracks were linked by an underground passage to the neighbouring Grolman Bastion.
        • The building was not seriously damaged during the storming of Königsberg.
      14. 🚶 on foot
      15. 8
        🏛 Rossgarten Gate
        пл. Маршала Василевского, 3
        A Neo-Gothic city gate of the 1850s next to the Dohna Tower; inside is the Solnechny Kamen (“Sun Stone”) restaurant.
        The Rossgarten Gate is a stone’s throw from the Dohna Tower.
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        Rossgarten Gate
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Rossgarten Gate
        © A.Savin · FAL
        • The gate was built in 1852–1855; the Berlin architect August Stüler reworked the façade in Gothic forms.
        • The gate has a single passage five metres wide, with three casemates on each side.
        • After the war the gate was restored to house the Solnechny Kamen café-restaurant.
      16. 🚶 on foot
      17. 9
        🖼 Amber Museum (Dohna Tower)
        пл. Маршала Василевского, 1
        🎟 ticket
        A museum in a round fort tower on the Upper Lake: Baltic amber, inclusions and amber work from ancient times to the present.
        The Amber Museum closes at 18:00 and the ticket office at 17:00: arrive before 16:00.
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        Amber Museum (Dohna Tower)
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Amber Museum (Dohna Tower)
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum is in the Dohna Tower — a round fortification of 1853, 34 metres across, on the shore of the Upper Lake.
        • The first part of the museum opened on 29 December 1979.
        • Nearby, in the village of Yantarny, is the largest known amber deposit, with more than 90% of the world’s reserves.
        • The tower was named after the Prussian field marshal Friedrich Karl zu Dohna.
        • In April 1945 the tower was a German strongpoint — it was taken during the storming of Königsberg.
      18. 🚶 on foot
      19. 10
        🏛 Wrangel Tower
        ул. Профессора Баранова
        A round brick tower, twin of the Dohna Tower, that guarded the Upper Lake from the west.
        Along the Upper Lake shore to the Wrangel Tower.
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        Wrangel Tower
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Wrangel Tower
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The tower was built in 1859 and named after Field Marshal Wrangel.
        • Together with the Dohna Tower it guarded the Upper Lake — the weakest point in the city’s defences.
        • The tower is 34 metres across and 12 high; guns stood in 42 casemates on two levels.
        • In 1913 an art gallery was set up here under the architect Friedrich Lahrs.
      20. 🚶 on foot
      21. 11
        🍽 Ogonyok grill café
        Пролетарская ул., 98
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        Dinner with a lake view: grill and honey cake.
        🍴 A grill café with a view of the Upper Lake and a summer veranda. What to order: marbled-beef steak, shashlik, honey cake.

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