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Historical places in Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad is a very special city. It was founded in 1255 by Teutonic crusaders as a fortress and named Koenigsberg, which means The King’s Mountain in German. For a long period of time Koenigsberg was the capital of Eastern Prussia. There are many attractive places dating to the 13th through 19th centuries: city gates, numerous castles, and Lutheran and Roman-Catholic churches. The architectural pearl of Kaliningrad is its Cathedral. Here, near the Cathedral walls, an outstanding thinker and philosopher Immanuel Kant was buried. The church, built in 1297, represents a sophisticated combination of Gothic and Roman styles. For a long period of time the building had remained half-destroyed, but from the beginning of the 1990s, when the Cathedral appeared on UNESCO’s World Heritage list, it has been actively reconstructed.

The Kaliningrad region gives great imagination space. Tours to Baltiysk, which is the Navy base and the most occidental outpost of Russia, to Chernyakhovsk, reviving the traditions of the equestrian sport and the horse breeding of Kaliningrad oblast, and the walking tours on the coast of Svetlogorsk are very fascinating.