Rundale Palace Tour

 
Rundale Palace Tour
Rundale Palace Tour
Rundale Palace Tour
Rundale Palace Tour

The Rundale Palace ensamble is one of the most outstanding monuments of Baroque and Rococo architecture in Latvia.

To know and see more of Latvia we offer you a fascinating one day excursion to Rundale - a marvellous Palace and Park ensamble designed by the Russian court architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli and built under his supervision. The Rundale Palace was built between 1736 and 1740 as a summer residence for Ernst Johann Biron, Duke of Courland and a favourite of the Russian Empress Anna Ioannovna. Most of the interior decorations were created between 1765 and 1768 when a sculptor from Berlin Johann Michael Graff, and Italian painters from St. Petersburg Francesco Martini and Carlo Zucchi worked at the palace. A Baroque Palace cannot be imagined without the French garden, an elaborate architectural framework devised of green plantings that should manifest the triumph of art over nature. The park spreads out to the south of the palace, and Bartolomeo Rastrelli designed it together with the palace building. An artificial canal runs around the park, encircling also the palace and the stables. Although Rundale's formal garden is but 10 ha large, Rastrelli has managed to fill it with an intricate maze of allées, cross paths, pergolas and bosquets.


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