2831 x 4256 px | 24 x 36 cm | 9,4 x 14,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
26 octobre 2010
Informations supplémentaires:
Kadriorg Park. Measuring nearly 250 scenic acres, this urban park features the symmetrical Swan Lake and a promenade leading to the Kadriorg Palace. Kadriorg is one of the more dignified areas and one of the best loved residential regions of Tallinn. The Estonian president’s residence and many foreign embassies are located here or nearby. The park is one of the favourite spots for walking of Tallinners young and old. But Kadriorg is famed mostly for its baroque palace and park ensemble, begun in 1718 as the summer palace for the family of Russian tsar Peter I. The birth date of the Kadriorg palace and park ensemble is considered to be 22nd of July 1718, when the Russian tsar Peter I along with the Italian architect Niccolo Michetti determined the site of the summer residence of the tsar’s family and the surrounding artificial park. In honour of the tsar’s wife who later became empress Catherine I, the beautiful district situated near the town and the sea was named Kadriorg (Catherine’s Valley). The emergence and development of Kadriorg was influenced first and foremost by the high society of the tsar’s empire. The streets of Kadriorg are as good as a unique architectural museum, weaving together various centuries and cultures. Noble villas and summer estates, functionalist apartment buildings with stately flats are interspersed with cheaper Estonian rented wooden houses.
