🏛 Katalnaya Gorka Pavilion

Ораниенбаум, Ломоносов

A white-and-blue Rococo pavilion — all that remains of a giant wooden sledding hill.

The hill was built in 1762–1774 to Rinaldi's design; it was long attributed to Rastrelli until this was refuted in the early 20th century.
A 532-metre wooden slope with four hills adjoined the 34-metre pavilion, and people rode down it in shaped carriages.
Riding stopped in 1801 because of dilapidation, in 1813 the slope's colonnades collapsed, and in 1858–1861 they were dismantled.
The Porcelain Cabinet held 40 Meissen groups of 1772–1775 about Catherine II's power over the seas and the victory at Chesme.
The pavilion's postwar restoration ran in 1951–1958.

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