5/21/2013

TIME OUT
(at least a little bit...)

The not-so-tough schedule of yesterday's festival program gave us the opportunity for sightseeing...

In the Palace Gardens of Peterhof











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PETERHOF 
series of palaces and gardens, laid out on the orders of Peter the Great, is sometimes called the "Russian Versailles". The palace-ensemble along with the city center is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In the Palace Gardens of Peterhof


PAVLOVSK
In 1780, the fashionable Scottish architect Charles Cameron was made responsible for construction the Grand Palace of Paul I in Pavlovsk. His Neoclassical design for the Grand Palace was approved by Paul two years later. Around the palace a huge English park was laid out, with numerous temples, colonnades, bridges, and statues.


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