Cathedral of the Annunciation (Blagoveshchensky Sobor) Videos
Saint Petersburg Seen from the Colonnade of St. Isaac’s Cathedral with TranslatorsCafe.com
You can view the historical center of St. Petersburg from a height of 44 m from the colonnade of St. Isaac’s Cathedral. Be prepared to climb 562 steps, which will take 10 to 15 minutes. The steps are numbered. From the colonnade, you will be able to see many landmarks of the city including:
Saint Petersburg Manege, which is a former riding hall for the Imperial Horse Guards Bronze equestrian Monument to Nicholas I Admiralty building Peter and Paul Fortress Peter and Paul Cathedral Neva Bay, also known as the Gulf of Kronstadt Marine Station mooring complex General Staff Building Mariinsky Palace Trinity Cathedral (Troitsky Cathedral) Resurrection Church near Varshavsky railway station Cupola of the Kazan Cathedral (sobor) Smolny Cathedral (sobor) Lahkta Center skyscraper Palace Square Alexander Column State Hermitage Museum Neva River Kunstkamera (Kunstkammer), Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange (Zdanie Birzhi) Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU) campus Vasilievsky Island Twelve Collegia, or Twelve Colleges building Menshikov Palace Church of St Catherine near Tuchkov Bridge Saint Petersburg Television Tower “Altai” Radio Tower Two 88 m tall radio towers used to block reception of Western programs on the territory of Leningrad. Now they are used as cellular network radio towers Western High-Speed Diameter (ЗСД, ZSD) tall motorway Cable Stayed Bridge over the Petrovsky Channel
The footage of the movable Annunciation Bridge (Blagoveshchensky most) and St. Isaac's Cathedral was shot from the balcony of the mini-hotel “Vid na Vevu” (“View of the Neva River”) where we stayed during our visit to St. Petersburg.
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