Sights & Attractions in St. Petersburg

Fodor's Choice Sights in St. Petersburg

Name	Category	Location

Alexander Nevsky Lavra The word lavra in Russian is reserved for a monastery of the highest...	Religious Sites	Upper Nevsky Prospekt and Vladimirskaya (Lower Nevsky Prospekt)

Peter and Paul Fortress The first building in Sankt-Piter-Burkh, as the city was then...	Military Sites	The Petrograd Side

St. Isaac's Cathedral The grandly proportioned St. Isaac's is the world's third-largest...	Religious Sites	The Admiralteisky and Vasilievsky Island

State Hermitage Museum Leonardo's Benois Madonna, Rembrandt's Danaë, Matisse's...	Museums / Galleries	City Center: Palace Square and the Hermitage

State Museum of Russian Art In 1898 Nicholas II turned the stupendously majestic neoclassical...	Museums / Galleries	From the Square of the Arts to the Field of Mars


Strelka This bit of land (the name means "arrow" or "spit") affords a...	Viewpoints	The Admiralteisky and Vasilievsky Island

Winter Palace With its 1,001 rooms swathed in malachite, jasper, agate, and...	Castles / Palaces	City Center: Palace Square and the Hermitage
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