Priorat Park in Gatchina. Impressions

May

2021

фотографии, путешествия

31 May 2021 15:45

On Sunday, May 30, 2021, they decided with his wife to visit about the coniferous in order to photograph the flowering fields. But by the will of the destinies they were again in Gatchina - the distance is small: only 25 minutes (17 kilometers) by car. We visited the Priorat Park in the evening.

The Priorat Park is located on the same lake system as Sylvia Park. But in spirit and idea, they are very different.
Sylvia is a regular park, while the Prioratic is a natural park. They are located on different sides of the main street of Gatchina - Avenue on October 25.

If Sylvia from the western side, as we already know, was created with the participation of the English gardener, then on the eastern side the Prioratian park shows paintings of real Russian nature without human participation.

Only the Priorat Palace stands over the Black Lake. The white walls of the palace look contrasting in the rays of the setting sun.
The architecture of the palace is interesting - a mixture of styles: white-stone churches as in Rus', but the silhouette of Gothic, and upon closer examination, the eastern ones are visible (the central tower resembles a mosque) and Chinese motifs (if you consider near). The resulting image is neutral. As if not tied to time and a specific country.

The Priorat Palace was built at the direction of tsar Paul I. It will go to the west, to the lake with windows, apparently with the aim of admiring the sunset sun.
The architect of the palace - N.A. Lviv, the date of the plan and the construction of 1797.

From the central avenue of Gatchina, a gravel pedestrian line about a kilometer long leads towards the palace.

Interestingly, unexpectedly, that seagulls fly near the Priorat Palace.

A small building is located next to the palace - apparently a kitchen or other auxiliary structure.

"The Priory Palace is the architectural symbol of Gatchina, its unique calling card. This unique building was constructed according to the plan of the architect N.A. Lvov for the Knights of the Order of Malta and is the only monument of rammed earth construction of the late 18th century in Russia. When the Russian Emperor Paul I assumed the duties of the trustee of the Order of Malta and became its prior, he needed a residence to carry out his new duties... The palace was built in two months in 1798 and has stood for 200 years on the shore of the artificial Black Lake".
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