Monrepos Park (Vyborg)
Russia /
Leningrad /
Vyborg
World
/ Russia
/ Leningrad
/ Vyborg
, 4 km from center (Выборг)
World / Russia / Leningrad
museum, estate (manor / mansion land), listed building / architectural heritage, green area
Mon Repos (Russian: Монрепо́) is landscaped English park in Vyborg.
"Monrepos" (French "my rest", here written in one word) is a manor house and landscaped park lying along the shoreline of the Zashchitnaya inlet of the Vyborg Bay in Finland, about 80 km from St. Petersburg. The park occupies about 180 hectares of land. Between 1788, when Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolai bought it, and 1943, "Monrepos" was owned by the family of Baron Nicolai (better Nicolay). The historic core of the museum complex is a manor from early 1800's. This consists of the Main house and the Library house, monuments of wooden classical architecture, and the landscape rock park designed in the romantic style, and which remains a unique monument of gardening art. Among the park designers were such architects like D. Martinelli, Auguste de Montferrand, A. Shtakenshneider, Ch.Tetam, artists Ya. Mattenleiter, and P.Gonzago. The area of the park is marked by special physical and geographical features, like the old Wiborgite Granite, which is named after Vyborg, and glacial formations of up to 20 meters high. In this nature reserve, 50 species of different plants can be found, some of them being rare. Its fauna is diverse as well: the park abounds in numerous birds and animals.
www.parkmonrepos.org/node/252
"Monrepos" (French "my rest", here written in one word) is a manor house and landscaped park lying along the shoreline of the Zashchitnaya inlet of the Vyborg Bay in Finland, about 80 km from St. Petersburg. The park occupies about 180 hectares of land. Between 1788, when Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolai bought it, and 1943, "Monrepos" was owned by the family of Baron Nicolai (better Nicolay). The historic core of the museum complex is a manor from early 1800's. This consists of the Main house and the Library house, monuments of wooden classical architecture, and the landscape rock park designed in the romantic style, and which remains a unique monument of gardening art. Among the park designers were such architects like D. Martinelli, Auguste de Montferrand, A. Shtakenshneider, Ch.Tetam, artists Ya. Mattenleiter, and P.Gonzago. The area of the park is marked by special physical and geographical features, like the old Wiborgite Granite, which is named after Vyborg, and glacial formations of up to 20 meters high. In this nature reserve, 50 species of different plants can be found, some of them being rare. Its fauna is diverse as well: the park abounds in numerous birds and animals.
www.parkmonrepos.org/node/252
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_Repos_(Vyborg)
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 60°43'57"N 28°43'55"E
- Vyborg Castle 1.8 km
- Naval Air Force training school 2.3 km
- Karelia aviation museum 47 km
- Lappeenranta Fortress 48 km
- Karjalan Portti 49 km
- Karelian Farmhouse Museum 50 km
- Yalkala Historical-Ethnographycal Museum-Preserve 76 km
- Korela Fortress 82 km
- New fortress 82 km
- Koitsanlahti Manor 91 km
- Island of the Dead 0.5 km
- Evangelical Christians-Baptists house of prayer 0.8 km
- Tverdysh island 0.8 km
- Vyborgsky 1 km
- Petrovsky district 1.1 km
- Severny 1.2 km
- Zaschitnaya bay 2.5 km
- Kirovskiye Dachi district 3.6 km
- Saimensky district 5.2 km
- Vyborg Bay 10 km
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