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SIGHTS, ART & MUSEUMS
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Metro «Nevskiy Prospekt»,
Downtown area
Palace Square, St Petersburg, Russia, 190000
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Culture, Events, History, Painting, Sculpture, Sight
Heart of Saint-Petersburg, Palace Square placed between Nevsky avenue and embankment of Neva river. Lined by the imperious Winter Palace (now 'Hermitage') and the sweeping majesty of the General Staff building, this square is one of the world's most impressive inner-city expanses.
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Metro «Nevskiy Prospekt»,
Downtown area
Inzhenernaya ulitsa, 4, St Petersburg, Russia, 190000
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Culture, History, Museum
The basic expositions consisting of the materials gathered before the Revolution of 1917 were opened to the public in 1923. In 1934 the Ethnographic Museum started to function as an independent one. Later its collections were enlarged, and after the World War II the museum got its modern name.
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Metro «Nevskiy Prospekt»,
Downtown area
naberezhnaya kanala Griboyedova, 2A, St Petersburg, Russia, 191011
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Culture, History, Religion, Sight
This legendary church os placed on Griboedov's Canal. It has stunning multi-colored domes in traditional russian manner. The church was originally built in memory of the assassination of Alexander II, killed by a bomb in 1881 on the exact spot the cathedral stands today.
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Metro «Nevskiy Prospekt»,
Downtown area
Mikhaylovskaya ulitsa, 2, St Petersburg, Russia, 190000
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Culture, Events, Music
The St Petersburg Philharmonia, the oldest Philharmonic Society in Russia, dates back more than 200 years. Its history goes back to 1802 when the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society, the first one in Europe, was created.
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Metro «Nevskiy Prospekt»,
Downtown area
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Events, Photography
The Centre exhibits works of well known national and international masters of photography, as well as young talented artists working in the genres of contemporary art closely connected with photography: video-art, photographic installations, animation, experimental cinema.
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