Gatchina Palace Private Tour with Hotel Pick-up

Gatchina Palace Private Tour with Hotel Pick-up

You will be picked-up at your hotel by your guide and your private driver, and head to the Gatchina Palace, located around 30 km from St. Petersburg, in a private car.

Your guide will tell you during this unique tour all the secrets of this magnificent palace, whose architect is the famous Antonio Rinaldi. This palace, bought by Catherine the Great for her lover, the Count Orlov, used to have more than 500 rooms. During this tour, you will visit approximately 10 of them, among the most beautiful ones.

One of them is the Marble Room: your guide will give you all the details and secrets of this room, worldwide famous for its columns made from Italian marble (from the city of Carrara). During this tour you will be told why did Louis XVI offer tapestries to Paul I in the throne room.

This magnificent palace is not the most visited one in St. Petersburg, and is not overcrowded by tourists: this tour is a great way to visit one of the Tsars’ palaces in a quiet atmosphere.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Gatchina Palace and Estate Museum, 1 Krasnoarmeyskiy Ave, Gatchina 188307 Russia

The Gatchina Palace was one of the favourite residences of the Russian Imperial Family, and during the 19th century was an important site of Russian politics. Since the February Revolution in 1917 it has been a museum and public park, and received UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 1990.

Duration: 3 hours