Creaking Summer-House (Saint Petersburg)
Russia /
Sankt Petersburg /
Pushkin /
Saint Petersburg /
Yekaterininsky park, АИ
World
/ Russia
/ Sankt Petersburg
/ Pushkin
, 4 km from center (Пушкин)
World / Russia / Leningrad
pavilion, folly, gazebo, listed building / architectural heritage
The Creaking or Chinese Summer-House (pagoda) in the Catherine Park ( eng.tzar.ru/museums/palaces/catherine_park/landscape/cr... ).
The Creaking Pagoda between two ponds in the landscape park separating the Catherine Palace and Alexander Palace is a reference to the 18th-century taste for Chinoiserie. It was designed by Georg von Veldten. Construction lasted from 1778 to 1786. The walls are decorated with figures of dragons and other stylized Chinese motifs. The name of the structure refers to a characteristic sound produced by a metal banner on the top when it is turned by the wind.
The Creaking Pagoda between two ponds in the landscape park separating the Catherine Palace and Alexander Palace is a reference to the 18th-century taste for Chinoiserie. It was designed by Georg von Veldten. Construction lasted from 1778 to 1786. The walls are decorated with figures of dragons and other stylized Chinese motifs. The name of the structure refers to a characteristic sound produced by a metal banner on the top when it is turned by the wind.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creaking_Pagoda
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 59°42'49"N 30°23'14"E
- Cold Bath & Agate Rooms 0.4 km
- Chapelle 0.5 km
- Hall of the Island 0.5 km
- Grotto 0.6 km
- Hermitage 0.9 km
- Hermitage Kitchen 1 km
- Pensioners' Stable 1.4 km
- Llama Pavilion (ruined) 1.5 km
- Centre for public services 13 km
- Ground-based lobby of Zvyozdnaya metrostation 13 km
- Rose Field 0.3 km
- Catherine Park 0.4 km
- New Garden 0.5 km
- Meadow Area 0.7 km
- Alexander Park 1 km
- Lamsky Ponds 1.4 km
- Babolovo Park 1.4 km
- Pushkinsky District 2 km
- Alexandrovskaya 3.2 km
- Shushary 5.9 km