Page 13 - (DK Eyewitness) Top 10 Travel Guide - St. Petersburg

St Petersburg Highlights ❮❮ 11

St Petersburg Highlights Peter and
Paul Fortress
The history of the city
dates from the founding
of the fortress in 1703.
It was originally
Russian Museum intended to de fend the
This museum features city against Swedish
a wide range of Russian art, invaders (see pp24–5).
including the works of
Bryullov and Repin
Aleksandrovskiyovskiy
Aleksandr (see pp22–3).
Park Park KAMENNOOSTROVSKIY
KRONVERKSKIY PROSPEKT PROSPEKT 0 metr 800 800
KRONVERKSKIY PROSPEKT PROSPEKT
PETROGR
PETROGRADSKAYAADSKAYA
STORONA
0 metreses
STORONA
Zoo
KAMENNOOSTROVSKIY
Sad Zoo
Sad
0 yar 0 yardsds 800 800
Trinity Trinity
Bridge
Bridge
Birzhevoy N e v a N e v a
Birzhevoy
DVORTSOVAYA NAB Marso Marsovovo NAB LEBYAZHEVO St Isaac’s Cathedral
Most Most KANALA Letniy Letniy
Sad
Sad
Pole
Pole
NAB MAKAROVA
NAB MAKAROVA
NAB LEBYAZHEVO
The largest church in Russia took
Dvortsovyy
VASILEVSKIYVSKIY
VASILE OSTROVV Dvortsovyy Most DVORTSOVAYA NAB KANALA 40 years to comp lete. Its interior ceiling
Most
NAB LEYTENANTA SHMIDTA ADMIRALTEYSKAYA NAB DVOR DVORTSOVAYATSOVAYA PLOSHCHAD SADOVAY SADOVAYA UL NAB REKI FONTANKI paintings survived shelling during
OSTRO
NAB LEYTENANTA SHMIDTA
ADMIRALTEYSKAYA NAB
PLOSHCHADA UL
PLOSHCHAD
PLOSHCHAD
Bolshaya Neva
Bolshaya Neva
World War II (see pp28–9).
ISKUSSTV
ISKUSSTV
PLOSHCHAD
ANGLIYSKAYA NABEREZHNAYA PLOSHCHAD
ANGLIYSKAYA NABEREZHNAYA BULVAR DEKABRISTOV GOROKHOVAYA UL NEVSKIY PROSPEKT OSTR OSTROVSKOVOOVSKOVO Palace and magnificent
Peterhof
DEKABRISTOV
NEVSKIY PROSPEKT
KONNOGVARDEYSKIY
KONNOGVARDEYSKIY
NAB REKI FONTANKI
With its Great
TSENTRALNYY
TSENTRALNYY
BOL MORSKAYA UL
BOL MORSKAYA UL
BULVAR
SADOVAYA ULITSA
SADOVAYA ULITSA
RAYON
RAYON
PLOSHCHAD
PLOSHCHAD
landscaped gar dens,
GOROKHOVAYA UL
Peterhof encapsul ates
UL DEKABRISTOV VOZNESENSKIY PR VOZNESENSKIY PR PER GRIVTSOVA tsarist Russia. Located
UL DEKABRISTOV
the ex tra vaga nce of
PER GRIVTSOVA
SENNAYAYA
SENNA
PLOSHCHAD
PLOSHCHAD
30 km (19 miles) west of
the city, it is an ideal day
trip (see pp30–31).
Tsarskoe Selo
A fine example of tsarist Pavlovsk
archi tectural splendour, Tsarskoe In 1777, Catherine the Great
Selo, with its lavish imperial presented Pavlovsk to her son,
palace and beautiful parks, is the the future tsar Paul I. To day it is a
perfect place to spend a relaxing ro man tic cluster of ruins around
day (see pp32–3). a charm ing palace (see pp34–5).
010-011_Top_10_St-Petersburg.indd 11 10/10/2016 11:58