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Belvedere, Peterhof

Russia

Heritage status
federal cultural heritage site in Russia
Location
Peterhof
Coordinates
59.8486°, 29.87979°
Links
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Belvedere, Peterhof in Russia
Photo: IzoeKriv · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Belvedere (Italian belvedere, "beautiful view") is a monument of the history of Russian culture and of architecture in the "neo-Greek style" of the period of historicism. It was the country palace of Emperor Nicholas I. It stands in Peterhof, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, on the edge of the Meadow Park, on Babigon Hill, which offers a "beautiful view" of the lakes of "Nicholas's Upper Peterhof". The "Stone Belvedere" (the pavilion's first name) was built to a design by the architect A. I. Stakenschneider in 1852–1854.

Machine-translated from “Бельведер (Петергоф)” on the Russian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Belvedere, Peterhof ranks #6,817 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #119 of the 148 mapped in Russia. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,147 times in the last 60 days, more than 59% of the atlas. 12 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Saint Petersburg, 27 km away. See how Russia compares in the castle statistics.

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