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sigthor_egle Says: Beautiful palace of Rundale (Pilsrundale in Latvian) is located in rather unattractive place of Latvia.. Almost on border of Lithuania, close to small border town Bauska. Pilsrundale was built in 18th century as a summer residence for rich duke of Latvia. World famous...
The exhibition about Palace's history
LanaFromRiga Says: There is the exhibition about the history of Rundales Palace in the first floor. It is very interesting to see how the palace looked 50 or 100 years ago.
LanaFromRiga Says: Impressive view from the Palace to the park. You can enjoy green grass and trees by yourself during walking in the park.
LanaFromRiga Says: The Rundales Palace after Duke's death had another honor - Duke Zubov. The interior of his living rooms can see in the first floor.
LanaFromRiga Says: Walls of rooms are decorated with paintings. The main theme are portrait of Duke and Russian empress.
LanaFromRiga Says: Rundale’s Palace is large and has many rooms. It means not every room is renovated. Some rooms are closed, but you can see some not renovated but in a good condition rooms
The collection of ancient furniture
LanaFromRiga Says: There is a great collection of ancient furniture in rooms of Rundale’s Palace. You can see tables, chairs and mirrors from 18th century.
LanaFromRiga Says: The Blazon of Duke sounds “For trust and for jealousy”.The Duke was the favourite of Russian empress Anna Ioanovna and she presented this Palace to him.
The western part of the first floor
LanaFromRiga Says: There are state halls: Golden (Throne) Hall, White (Balls) Hall, Large Gallery (state dining room) and cabinets with collections of Japan and China porcelains.
LanaFromRiga Says: In the first floor are personal Duke’s rooms. In the western part of first floor, you can see exhibition about the history of the Palace and Duke’s wife personal apartments.
LanaFromRiga Says: You can see 48 rooms inside the palace on ground and first floors. The main part of interior made in 1765 – 1768 when Italian painters F.Martini and K.Cucci were working in the palace.
Dabs Says: Rundale Palace seems so out of place, a canary yellow confection stuck in the middle of a rural area, across the street from the palace you could hear cows mooing.The entrance fee to get into the palace is practically nothing for a palace this grand, not sure exactly how...
LanaFromRiga Says: Take the bus from the Riga’s central bus station to Bauska. In Bauska you have to take bus to Pilsrundale. Buses to Pilsrundale from Bauska are every 2 hours.
Dabs Says: To get to Rundale Palace from Riga by public transport, you need to take a bus from Riga's central station to Bauska and then connect to a bus to Pilsrundale (not Rundale which is past the Palace).There are dozens of buses going from Riga to Bauska, check the schedule on the...
Palace gift shop: At the Palace
Dabs Says: As we were wandering in the palace trying to find the WC, we saw a sign that said something close to souvenirs so we followed it and found a lady selling plaster cast plates with Roman or Greek gods (sorry, don't know which are which) and other plaster cast souvenirs for...
Souvenirs: The souvenirs shops and box-office
LanaFromRiga Says: It is a small shop near the box-office While you’re buying tickets you can see many souvenirs, postcards and other beautiful things. Ticket to the Palace costs 1, 70 LVL. Souvenirs started from 1,50 LVL.
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Every visitor has to put on slippers before entering halls of the Palace. It helps to protect Palace’s parquet.
Written Jun 1, 2005
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I advice you to go to the ground floor at the start. There you will find elements of history: memorial stones and sculptures.
Written Jun 1, 2005
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Favorite thing: Every thing in Rundae’s Palace is beautiful. Look to the ceiling and you will see great frescos by F.Cucci.
Fondest memory: Chandeliers from glass make common effects very impressive.
Written Jun 1, 2005
The summer residence of the Duke of Courland E.J. Biron. The palace is a baroque and rococo architecture monument built in 1736-1740 and 1736-1767 according to F.B. Rastrelli’s design and contains a...
I might have missed visiting this palace had it not been for a tip on Fodor's travel board. It's a little harder to get to via public transportation from Riga than Sigulda, the other day trip we took,...
It's more or less all about this palace. It's stunning, amazing, beautiful, inspiring.. Simply worth visiting... for architecture lovers, for roses fans, for everybody visiting southern Latvia :)
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