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      🌳 Gatchina Palace Park

      Гатчина, Красноармейский пр., 1 (вход через плац у дворца)

      A landscape park with lakes, islands, pavilions and the Humpback Bridge around the palace.

      Gatchina Palace Park
      © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 3.0
      Gatchina Palace Park
      © Artem Topchiy · CC BY-SA 3.0
      • The park covers 143 hectares and is the oldest of the Gatchina parks.
      • In 1766 Grigory Orlov wrote to invite Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Gatchina, praising its lakes and hillocks.
      • The Eagle Column is the oldest structure in the park: it is first mentioned in 1770.
      • The Pavilion of Venus on Love Island is a copy of the pavilion at Chantilly and has been under construction since 1792.
      • The amphitheatre of 1797, designed by Nikolai Lvov, was built for knightly tournaments — "carousels".
      • Under Paul, the park's Admiralty built and housed the ships of Gatchina's "toy" fleet.
      • In 1794 a single contractor received an order to plant 16,500 lime trees.

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      • Gatchina: Paul I’s castle and the Priory

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