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 Of the grandest proportions, 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 &hellip...	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 The Strelka ("arrow" or "spit") affords a dazzling view of both...	Squares	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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