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"Wallpaper City Guides" not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he or she has a week or just 24 hours in the city. The guides feature up-and-coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centers, and a selection of the best shops to buy items unique to the particular city. "Wallpaper City Guides" present travelers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the best, the most exciting, and the most beautiful of the featured city. In addition to looking beautiful, the guides are expertly designed with function as a priority. They have tabbed sections so the tourist can easily find what he or she is looking for. Also included are color-coded city maps, rate and currency cards, and an easy navigational tool. They are the ultimate combination of form and function. Compiled by the well-traveled editorial team of Wallpaper and by an extraordinary...

A Stroll Around the Halls and Galleries an Illustrated Guide-Book.

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Павел Канн

Une renommee mondial s'attache au chapelet de palais et de pares situes au sud de Saint-Petersbourg, l'ancienne capitale de la Russie. Ils en sont une splendide parure. Les ensembles architecturaux et paysagers de Petrodvorets (anciennement Peterhof), Lomonossov (Oranienbaum), Pouchkine, с'est-a-dire Tsarskoie Selo, Pavlovsk, residence de campagne de l'empereur Paul I, appartiennent aupa-trimoine russe et mondial. Les grandes etapes de l'art d'amenager les palais et les pares ont obtenu une illustration magistrale dans les ensembles des environs de Saint-Petersbourg: les parcs sont reputes par leurs sculptures en marbre et en bronze dues a des maitres antiques, russes et ouest-europeens; les palais qui sont de remarquables realisations de Varchitecture des XVIII-XIX ss. conservent de splendides collections d'oeuvres depeinture, de sculpture etd'arts decoratifs…

The majestic image of St Petersburg is inseparable from the luxurious Imperial palace-and-park residences surrounding the northern capital of Russia - Peterhof, Tsarskoye Selo, and Pavlovsk. All these architectural complexes taken together build up an integral historical and artistic chronicle of Russian life and culture.