Marble Bridge

{{Short description|Bridge in Pushkin, Russia}}

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The Marble Bridge (or "Siberian Marble Gallery"{{cite web |url=http://www.petergid.ru/mesta/palladiev-most-3427.html |title=Палладиев мост в Санкт-Петербурге |publisher=Petergid.ru |date=2011-11-27 |accessdate=2012-02-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130417075426/http://www.petergid.ru/mesta/palladiev-most-3427.html |archivedate=2013-04-17 }}) is a decorative pedestrian roofed Palladian bridge (gallery walkway) in Empress Catherine Park{{Cite web|url=http://tzar.ru/en/objects/ekaterininskypark/landscape/marblebridge|title=Marble Bridge {{!}} Tsarskoe Selo State Museum and Heritage Site|website=tzar.ru|access-date=2019-05-13}} in the former royal residence Tsarskoye Selo (now town of Pushkin) near Saint Petersburg, Russia. It connects the Swan Islands — an artificial archipelago of seven islets in the landscape park of Tsarskoe Selo — spanning a rivulet flowing between several ponds.

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The bridge was modelled after the Palladian Bridge (1736) in the park of Wilton House, in England, and served as a showcase for Ural marble. All the details of the bridge — including the granite Ionic colonnade — were produced in Yekaterinburg, transported to Tsarskoe Selo and then assembled in the workshop of Vincenzo Tortori in 1774.{{cite web|url=http://pushkin.ru/parks/mramornyiy-palladiev-most.html |title=Мраморный (Палладиев) мост | Парки |publisher=Pushkin.ru |date= |accessdate=2012-02-18}} It is probably called Siberian due to its construction with marble from the Urals.