Photo The Marly Palace by Yuriy Gogin

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The Marly Palace

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The Marly Palace is the main structure in the Lower Park. Although not large, it plays an important role in the overall composition of the park. Three main avenues diverge from the palace like rays cutting the park from west to east: the central Marly Avenue, the northern Maliebaan Walk and the southern Birch Alley. The radiating avenues lead not only to the structures located there - the Hermitage Palace or Pavilion, the Eve Fountain and the Lion Cascade, but, crossing the Sea Canal, compositionally link this part of the park with the Adam Fountain and the ensemble of Monplaisir on the one side and the Chessboard Hill Cascade on the other. At the same time the Marly Palace is the focal centre of a relatively autonomous architectural complex including a pond, two gardens (the Venus and Parterre Gardens), a cascade and fountains on the parterre in front of the edifice.
Construction work began in this section of the park much later than in the central and Monplaisir areas. It started with the building of two ponds, the rectangular Marly Pond and a semicircular one. The excavated soil was employed to raise a huge rampart along the gulf, which could serve both as a dam and as a barrier against northern winds. The semicircular pond with three radial brick partitions was divided into four sectors, hence its later name, the Sectorial Ponds. The artificial ponds, in addition to aesthetic purposes, had purely economical functions - to rear crucians and other kinds of carp and pikeperch. Begun in 1720, the work was completed in 1722.

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Tue 14 Jun 2005 17:41

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