Photo: parks and recreation, Mon Repos Park, Vyborg

Photo: parks and recreation, Mon Repos Park, Vyborg

Photo: parks and recreation, Mon Repos Park, Vyborg

Photo: parks and recreation, Mon Repos Park, Vyborg

Photo: parks and recreation, Mon Repos Park, Vyborg

Photo: parks and recreation, Mon Repos Park, Vyborg

Photo: parks and recreation, Mon Repos Park, Vyborg

Photo: parks and recreation, Mon Repos Park, Vyborg

Photo: parks and recreation, Mon Repos Park, Vyborg

Photo: parks and recreation, Mon Repos Park, Vyborg

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Mon Repos Park — a Place for Philosophical Meditations

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The name of Mon Repos Park means «My rest» or «My repose» in French. This rocky landscape park lies along the shoreline of the Zashchitnaya inlet of the Vyborg Bay. Here the pristine Karelian nature coexists with the man-made creations: houses, pavilions, bridges and statues.

There were farmlands in the territory of the present Mon Repos Park until the 18th century. Landscaping began in the second half of the XVIII century, when the Commandant of Vyborg Peter Stupishin decided to arrange here Sharlottendal — his summer residence. The heirs of Stupishin did not need this estate and it was bought by the vicegerent of Vyborg, Prince Friedrich of Württemberg. He gave this residence the name ‘Monrepos’ (or ‘Mon Repos’), expanded it and perfected the park.The core of the park ensemble is the main manor house: a wooden building of the early XIX century, with a portico with four columns. Near the house there is a wooden library outbuilding. The main gate is a modern copy of the Neo-Gothic gate of the 1830s. In the northern part of Mon Repos there is the Ludwigstein Island, half occupied by a granite rock. Here you can see a Neo-Gothic chapel, the grotto of Medusa, a harbor, the gate and several stone stairs. Other notable objects of the park include the Chinese bridges that resemble open fans, a wooden hermit’s hut — a hexagonal pavilion without a door, the Temple of Neptune — an antique-style pavilion, a tea-gazebo which offers a panoramic view of the bay, and several sculptures. Some places in the park contain megaliths, massive hewn stone blocks.

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park Monrepo 19
188811, Viborg

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60.7303872, 28.7257018

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+7 813 7825997

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www.parkmonrepos.org

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