Name: Catherine's Palace
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City: St Petersburg, Russia
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What's it like?
Catherine's Palace is located twelve miles south of Saint Petersburg in Pushkin. Named for Peter the Great's wife, Catherine I, the estate is now a museum housing art, furniture and weapons from the 16th-19th centuries.
The building's white, blue and gold Baroque facade stretches nearly a thousand feet, topped by the chapel's five golden domes. Although the Palace was destroyed after WWII, its restoration continues even today. The Palace's world-famous Amber room, stolen in its entirety and lost at the end of WWII, is also being recreated, but the mystery of the theft has never been solved.
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