Marble Bridge
The Marble Bridge (or "Siberian Marble Gallery"[1]) is a decorative pedestrian roofed Palladian bridge (gallery walkway) in Empress Catherine Park[2] in the former royal residence Tsarskoye Selo (now town of Pushkin) near Saint Petersburg, Russia. It connects the Swan Islands — an artificial archipelago of seven islets in the landscape park of Tsarskoe Selo — spanning a rivulet flowing between several ponds.
The bridge was modelled after the Palladian Bridge (1736) in the park of Wilton House, in England, and served as a showcase for Ural marble. All the details of the bridge — including the granite Ionic colonnade — were produced in Yekaterinburg, transported to Tsarskoe Selo and then assembled in the workshop of Vincenzo Tortori in 1774.[3] It is probably called Siberian due to its construction with marble from the Urals.[3]
References
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- ^ "Палладиев мост в Санкт-Петербурге". Petergid.ru. 2011-11-27. Archived from the original on 2013-04-17. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
- ^ "Marble Bridge | Tsarskoe Selo State Museum and Heritage Site". tzar.ru. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- ^ a b "Мраморный (Палладиев) мост | Парки". Pushkin.ru. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
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Showplaces in Catherine Park of Tsarskoye Selo
- Other parks of Tsarskoye Selo: Alexander Park
- Babolovsky Park
- Buferniy Park
- Fermersky Park
- Otdelniy Park
- Formal garden
- Catherine Palace
- Cameron Gallery
- Amber Room
- Palace Cruch
- Zubovskiy Corpse
- Agate rooms
- Grotto
- Top Bath
- Down Bath
- Hanging Gardens
- Rock-garden
- Pond
- Pond at the top bath
- Cascades
- Canal
- Large Pond
- The Swan Fountainlet
- Landscape garden
- Hermitage
- Back regions of Hermitage
- Admiralty
- Pavilion on island
- Turkish bath
- Pyramid
- Ruin Tower
- Concert Hall
- Evening Hall
- Ruin Back regions
- Creaking arbour
- Pink Watchhouse
- Big Caprice
- Small Caprice
- To Kind my colleagues Gate
- Orlovsky Gate
- Gothic Gate
- Moreiskaya Column
- Chesme Column
- Kagul Obelisk
- Granite bridge
- Marble Bridge
- Сross-slide bridge
- Milestone
- Granite terrace
- Terrace-Colonnade
- Galatea Statue
- Sculptures of lions
- Rope Ferry
- Large Pond
- Small pond with islands
- Long Pond
- Girl with a jug fountain
- Red Cascade
- Lake
- Chinese Canal
- Triangle square
- Ramp avenue
- Own garden
- Other cocktail belt museums: Gatchina
- Pavlovsk Palace
- Petrodvorets
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