King's Gate


Focusing on Peter the Great’s Grand Embassy to the city in 1697, this revamped gate also has good models of old Königsberg and exhibits on the personalities who shaped the region’s history. A little south of here, where Moskovsky pr meets Litovsky val, is the twin-towered Sackheim Gate (Закхаймские ворота).


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0.71 MILES

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3. Amber Museum

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4. Dohna Tower

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5. Dom Sovietov

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6. New Synagogue

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7. Kant Statue

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