Welcoming Committee
Catherine’s Palace
By trailingtrekker |
Published October 28, 2016 at 4608 × 3456 in Bucket list #17: St. Petersburg, Russia Part 3
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Sights and Sounds
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- cuteness….
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- Earlier than Sparrows Fart
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- Morning greetings
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- Didn’t take long for an interesting cloud bank to make it’s appearance
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- Top of the Rock with MSC Opera in the background
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- early morning at the Straits of Gibraltar
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- early morning at the Straits of Gibraltar
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- Stunning art at all stops, this one had chandeliers and crystal pillars
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- With it’s stunning domed roof
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- A slightly different style…
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- Stunning artwork everywhere
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- The gold rooms, 3 rooms one of the other covered in gold
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- Original Delft tiles serve as exterior of numerous fireplaces used to heat the palace
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- on the ceiling in the entry way
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- Keeping us entertained while we waited in line
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- Stunning exterior
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- Welcoming Committee
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- Welcoming Commitee
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- Made of solid Malachite
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- Horses apparently from one of the wars
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- Made of solid Lapis lazulis
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- Sculpture by Michelangelo
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- The Grand Hallway, an identical copy of the one in the Vatican Museum
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- Her “Hanging Gardens”
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- Catherine the Great
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- Stunning stained glass
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- Some of the officers were quite good looking
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- The generals who fought Napolean
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- One of the many Grand Halls
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- One of the throne rooms
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- Even the light fixtures are works of art
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- The Grand Entry
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- Beautiful costumes
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- canal
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- all mosaics
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- inside the main spire
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- if you didn’t know better you would think they were paintings
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- mosaics everywhere
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- Church of Spilled Blood
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- First view of Spilled Blood Church
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- Remains of the Romanovs the last Royal Family of Russia
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- Peter the Great and his family
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- Inside the Cathedral in the Peter and Paul Fortress
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- couples like these roam among the tourists trying to get money for a photo, I did a quick happy snappy of one of my guests
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- Peter and Paul Fortress
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- The Winter Palace aka the Hermitage
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- St. Petersburg
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- Church of Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg Russua
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- MSC Opera – home sweet home for the next 7mths
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- Star Wars…. I think
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- calming soap and shampoo – just what I need
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- so happy to see a comfy bed
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- All together !!!
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- little chilly
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- mmmm yummy
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