Oriental Dragon Weathervane - Pilsrundale, Latvia
N 56° 24.680 E 024° 01.448
35V E 316409 N 6255834
This dragon weathervane is located on the grounds of the Rundale Palace in the village of Pilsrundale, Latvia.
Waymark Code: WMPJV7
Location: Latvia
Date Posted: 09/09/2015
Views: 3
The weathervane is located atop a Chinese style pavilion in the Oriental Bosquet portion of the palace gardens. The pavilion contains restrooms.
"The regular French style park with its rose garden, the Green Theatre, ornamental parterres and the fountain, are open for the public. In summers, the park becomes the venue for the Garden Festival.
A Baroque palace cannot be imagined without the French garden, an elaborate architectural framework devised of green plantings that should manifest the triumph of art over nature. The park spreads out to the south of the palace, and Bartolomeo Rastrelli designed it together with the palace building. An artificial canal runs around the park, encircling also the palace and the stables. Although Rundale's formal garden is but 10 ha large, Rastrelli has managed to fill it with an intricate maze of allées, cross paths, pergolas and bosquets."
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