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A must visit site in St. Petersburg is the Catherine Palace and its Amber Chamber. The complex is part of a complex of palaces and parks of the city of Pushkin, declared a World Heritage Site. In this post I will explain you how to get there and how to buy tickets online to avoid lines.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A must visit if you travel to St. Petersburg, besides the Hermitage <\/a>and Peterhof<\/a>, is Catherine\u2019s Palace<\/strong>, a spectacular palace which was summer residence of the tsars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The palace is located in the town of Pushkin<\/a> (formerly Tsarskoye Selo), about 25 kilometers southeast of St. Petersburg. The complex is part of a complex of palaces and parks of the city of Pushkin, declared a World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article I will make a brief review of the history of the palace and explain how to get there and how to buy tickets online to avoid lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. A brief history of the Palace and curiosities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The palace has its origins in 1717<\/a>, when Catherine I of Russia<\/strong> hired German architect Johann-Friedrich Braunstein to build her a summer palace for her distractions. Empress Elizabeth<\/strong> remodeled the palace to her taste in 1752, making it more luxurious and using more than 100 kilos of gold to gild the facade and the roof statues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the Palace is associated with Catherine II of Russia<\/strong> (called the Great), who stopped the works, when she was informed of the high costs and that in her memoirs criticized the reckless extravagance of Empress Elizabeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Empress Catherine II hired a Scottish architect who renovated the palace to the neo-Palladian<\/a> style (which was fashionable at the time) and constructed the personal apartments of the Empress, as well as new structures in the park for the entertainment of the Empress.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The palace was looted by Nazi troops during World War II, but was rebuilt for the tercentenary of the city of St. Petersburg in 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the different rooms of the palace there is a ballroom<\/strong> and, above all, the Amber Chamber<\/strong>, a luxurious room of the Tsar, composed of a set of panels, baseboards and furniture made up of thousands of shards of amber (a gemstone formed of vegetable resin). This chamber was dismantled by the Germans and taken to K\u00f6nigsberg Castle, where it was exhibited in 1941. This castle was damaged at the end of World War II and it was never heard of Amber Chamber again for the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2003 the Chamber was replaced by a copy located right in Catherine Palace itself, made with resources from German companies and Russian and German artists. Vladimir Putin and the German Chancellor Gerhard Schr\u00f6der, inaugurated it on the 300th anniversary of the city of St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Some interesting facts about the palace:<\/p>\n\n\n\n