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Rundāle Palace
A baroque palace by Rastrelli in the Latvian countryside, with a grand French garden.
- Open
- Most days
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- Half a day
- Address
- Pilsrundāle, Rundāle parish, Bauska MunicipalityDirections
- Getting There
- About 1¼ hours by car south of Riga; buses run to nearby Bauska.
Why Go
Rastrelli, the architect of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, began it in 1736 as the summer residence of Ernst Johann von Biron, Duke of Courland. Its gilded state rooms and the formal gardens, with a rose garden of thousands of plants, have been carefully restored.
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