(Baonghean.vn) - Saint-Petersburg-The ancient capital of Russia, built by Tsar Peter the Great on May 27, 1703 on the land conquered from Sweden. Saint-Peterburg is located on the Neva River delta, leading to the Gulf of Finland. Being the homeland of the great October Revolution, the city has gone through many historical events, but to this day it still retains its magnificent, ancient beauty.
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| The city is named after Saint Peter (one of the 12 disciples of Jesus), who was the patron saint of Peter the Great. The word “saint” in French means ‘saint’, “Saint Peter” means ‘Saint Peter’; and “burg” is German for ‘city’. Thus, Saint-Peterburg means “City of Saint Peter”. (photo: St.Peterburg Guide fanpage). |
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| The city is surrounded by the beautiful Neva River. Not only does it provide fresh water for the entire city, the Neva is also a mirror reflecting the life of Saint Petersburg. (photo: St.Peterburg Guide fanpage). |
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| Saint Petersburg is the ancient capital and the second largest city of Russia (after Moscow), the only city on earth listed by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage. With more than 3,700 historical and cultural monuments, representing many styles and schools of world architecture. Saint Petersburg is recognized as the 8th most attractive tourist city in the world. Known as the city of palaces. (photo: St.Peterburg Guide fanpage) |
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| The Winter Palace is one of the famous architectural works of Saint-Peterburg on a campus of 90,000 m2. The building is a typical design of the Baroque art style, used as the royal palace of the Tsar. After the October Revolution, the Winter Palace became the State Hermitage Museum (the largest art museum in Russia and the third largest in the world, after the Louvre Museum (France) and the Vatican (Italy), displaying over 3 million works of art collected from all over the world. |
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| The Summer Palace is located on the Gulf of Finland. One of the most prominent designs outside the palace is the golden fountain in the middle. The 20m high waterfall is sprayed from the mouth of a lion, the water flows down to the reservoir and drains into the Gulf of Finland. This palace is modeled after the Versace Palace in France, so people also call this palace the Versace Palace of Russia. |
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| The Autumn Palace - built by Peter the Great for his wife Catherine I. The palace stretches over 1km and is covered with 99 kg of gold on the outside. The large painting on the ceiling of the Great Hall and many of the carvings on the walls are all gilded. The Amber Room - the most famous and legendary room in the palace - was decorated with 450 kg of amber. The room was dismantled in 1941, when the Germans occupied the palace. 40 years later, the Amber Room was rebuilt. It took Russia 20 years and more than 12 million USD to rebuild this room. |
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| St. Isaac's Cathedral is the largest church in Russia, and one of the largest in Europe, with a height of 101.5m. It took 50 years to build this church. |
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| Kazansky Cathedral is one of the pinnacles of classical art. Impressive with 136 massive stone columns. (photo: St. Petersburg Guide fanpage). |
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| The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood or the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, is where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881. |
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| The Moika River flows through the city, creating a network of natural canals and crisscrossing canals and countless ancient bridges, so it is also known as the “Venice of the North”. (photo: St.Peterburg Guide fanpage). |
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| Because it is located in the North, sunlight refracts from the other side of the Earth (where it is daytime), passes through the North Pole to shine down on the city, so Saint-Petersburg is famous for the amazing natural phenomenon of "white nights". The whole city is covered in a beautiful milky white light. Going out on the white nights on the Neva bank to see the open bridges is a "specialty" of Saint. The bridges in the city open in turn from 1am to 5am for ships to pass. |
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