Catherine Park — Attraction in Pushkin

Where The Hermatage blends palaces with art galleries to mind-boggling effect, Catherine Park and palace stick to showing a tsarist summer palace and it's grounds. The result is that the whole thing can be taken in at one sitting and it's a show which rewards the effort of seeing it. The park and it's many bath houses, boat houses, summer houses and panoramic walks are open to the public and can be accessed without difficulty. This alone is worth the trip. If you can arrange a tour of the inside of the palace (queues are many hours long for those who have not booked in advance) though, you will experience rooms decorated in baroque, classical and imperial style, spanning the fashions of the tsarist age. Of these, the baroque rooms, a riot of gold leaf and crystal chandeliers are the most striking, eclipsing even the most lurid dreams of a fairytale palace. Cinderella would recognise it. In the same style, the famous Amber room, coated floor to ceiling in Amber mosaic is another treasure. Later rooms are less dizzying but equally parked with masterpieces of the applied arts. The palace was gutted by the Nazis in WW2, so much of what we see has been restored from pre-war photographs and architectural drawings. In any case, it is a highlight of my ...

Beautiful park where you can bring your kids and show them the Russian history. Truly historical place, its important to notice that its accessible for wheelchair and its got public restrooms, which are always clear. Parking lots are not always available, but you can find it. In the palace there are ATMs where you can take money and pay for the tour through the palace. You can take english audio guide where you can listen the whole history of the Catherine Palace. In park you can see lots of structures that have different historical meaning. In the middle of the park there is a lake where you can enjoy the beautiful view of the park. Near the lake there are restaurant, where you can try traditional russian food and other food. The park is enormous its about 105 hectares. The staff that works there are very polite and they know english as well, so ypu will not get lost in the park. Its preferable to visit the park in the spring of summer because pf the beautiful weather and the colurs that the park owns it. Its must visit place if you are visiting Saint Peterburg. You can google and see when its working. Ones a month its free to visit. In Tsarskoe village you can find the...

If you have time visit it. It is not like Petergoff, much bigger, and more places to see. Visit her palace and hermitage both interiors represents her unique personality. Hermitage pay is around 300 rubels. The entrance to the park around 150 rubels, and to the palace maybe 900 rubels, different prices for Russians. The queue to the palace can be very long. But everything is much more organised than in Petergoff. Gives you a very nice overall experience. Inside the park you can find fast food like hot dogs, tea and icecream... all around you when you walk the big park. Will take you one full day and you still might not finish it all. Alexandar palace has different entry, it is for free. Nice park, but you cant see the palace as it was under renovation when i made this review. The park is very...