Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Greettings from Latvia!!!, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Time to continue posting some pictures........Anyone out there still interested??????
This Posting will be a bit Hodge-Podge and cover a couple of different locations and visits. Still--in the category of "Beautiful Sights" to behold.....

One of our day trips was about an hour and a half outside Riga to see the "Rundales Palace". Our cousin, Zenta, and her hubby Egils took us.

The Palace is grandiose and all the rooms are still furnished like in "those" days....with amazing art-deco decorations, cherubs over doorways, painted gold "things" on the ceilings, very antique furniture, the big, wide, winding stairways, etc. etc.....

This Palace is square-shaped, with a beautiful courtyard in the middle. It is most know for the elegant Rose Gardens out back. Very well manicured and sectioned off with a big fountain near the building.

We went inside (had to buy a ticket, of course) and milled around--room to room with various tourist groups with their guides explaining everything in whatever languages. The two I heard most often were German and Spanish.
We had to, kind of, weave our way through all the people, as we were there just on out own. Now and then--we "lost" each other...
The Roses in the garden were, sort of, in between blooming. Still some color--but not at the prime any more.

SO! Here is the Palace as it looks when you approach it.


This message was edited Aug 3, 2008 3:36 PM