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Tips 1 - 10 of 42 Saint Petersburg Things to Do
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Founded in 1703 by Peter the great, Peter and Paul's fortress is the first construction built in S.Petersburg, and around which the city has developed. Untill the revolution,it was used primarily as a jail (it's possible to visit it) ...among the many important people who have been imprisoned here, we just recall the son of Peter, Aleksey, and Dostojevskij.
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Directions: on the left bank of Neva river metro stop Gorkovskaja
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the cathedral, with it's nice golden spire, is the most important building inside the fortress; inside the cathedral there are the tombs of many zars and their families...also the tomb of Peter the Great.
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inside the walls of the fortress there are many little house-museums which describes the history of the city ...and there is also an iteresting astronautics museum, where you can find a true space capsule "Sojuz" and the real Sputnik satellite
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from the fortress you can admire a nice view of the of the city on the opposite bank of Neva river...in particular, far away on your left, the white Smolny cathedral, in front of you the winter's palace, then, on your right, the admiralty golden spire, S.Isaac's cathedral cupola, and then Vasilevskij island, with the building of naval museum between the 2 characteristic red rostral columns
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not far from the fortress, is moored Aurora battleship. From one of its cannon,in 1917 was fired salvoes the shot that was the signal of the beginning of revolution.
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Bridges: Bridges opening (3)
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...here you can see the opening of the bridge near winter's palace(you can see it in background) ...consider that on that bridges there are also the tram's cables. if the opening is interesting, even more interesting is when it is close back: the cars on both sides start going just like if it was the starting of a F1 race.
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Nevsky Avenue: Nevskij prospekt
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...the main street in S.Petersburg; it runs straight from the admiralty to Aleksander Nevskij monastir, for about 4 Km length. On this street you can find everithing; all the city seems living around it...maybe you'll like it, maybe you'll hate it, but be sure, you'll have to pass from here many times.
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The monastir at the end of Nevskij prospekt it's one of the most important in Russia: there are only 4 Lavra (a Lavra is something more important than a simple monastir ) ; the other are in Moscow, Kiev, and Pochaev. Interesting the cemetery, where you can find,among the others, the tombs of Dostoevskij, Chajkovskij, Stravinskij
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Directions: metro stop "ploshchad A.Nevskogo"
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We enjoyed your Saint Petersburg page. It looks like you saw a lot of the city and its sights. It was one of our favorite vacation trips. | yooperprof Tue May 11, 2004 03:25 UTC
Beautiful photos - a great shot of the Amber Room. It's great to see it restored. St. Petersburg is one of my big travel goals. | travelife Sun Mar 28, 2004 00:23 UTC
Very helpful and accurate tips on your St. Petesberg page, Lucca! Keep up the good work! | Andraf Sun Feb 22, 2004 18:46 UTC
Great page with beautiful pictures and good tips. I hope to visit St. Petersburg some day. |
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