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🏝️ Island villas and the five-domed cathedral

Tsaritsyn Pavilion
Photo: NewYorker1989, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

⏱ 3 h · 🚶 ~9 km · easy

The Upper Garden with the German "Neptune", the quiet Colonist Park, the Pompeian villa and the Neapolitan tower on the islands, and the cathedral reflected in the pond.

Stops

  1. Upper Garden — Peter's former vegetable garden. The Neptune Fountain was bought in Nuremberg.
  2. Kolonist Park and Olga Pond — A former hunting swamp that became a pond with two island villas.
  3. Olgin Pavilion — A Neapolitan tower — a gift for daughter Olga.
  4. Tsaritsyn Pavilion — A Pompeian villa for the empress who dreamed of Italy.
  5. Cathedral of Peter and Paul — A church whose site was personally chosen by Alexander III.

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