Key facts
- Architectural style
- Baroque
- Location
- Bauska Municipality , Latvia
- Client
- Ernst Johann von Biron
- Architect
- Bartolomeo Rastrelli
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Encyclopedic overview
Aerial view of the palace and the gardensRundāle Palace (Latvian: Rundāles pils; German: Schloss Ruhental, formerly Ruhenthal or Ruhendahl) is one of the two major baroque palaces built for the Dukes of Courland in what is now Latvia, the other being Jelgava Palace. The palace was built in two periods, from 1736 until 1740 and from 1764 until 1768. It is situated at Pilsrundāle, in Rundāle Parish, Bauska Municipality in the Semigallia region, 12 km west of Bauska.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rundāle Palace” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.