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      Petersburg from above: colonnade, bell tower, rooftop

      ⏱ 9 h🚶 4 km + 🚇🚕🍽 3📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Three heights in a day: St Isaac’s, Smolny, the Etazhi rooftop — and dinner on the 18th floor.

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        ☕️ Mechtateli
        наб. реки Фонтанки, 11
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        Breakfast
        🍴 A gastronomic café on the Fontanka by the Anichkov Bridge, opening at 8 in the morning; breakfasts with unusual combinations and good coffee. What to order: syrniki (with salmon or venison), draniki, rum baba.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🏛 St Isaac's Cathedral and its colonnade
        Исаакиевская пл., 4
        🎟 ticket · The cathedral and the climb to the colonnade need separate tickets
        In summer the colonnade is also open at night
        The colonnade
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        St Isaac's Cathedral and its colonnade
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The cathedral is consecrated in the name of St Isaac of Dalmatia because Peter I was born on his feast day, 30 May.
        • According to legend, Montferrand was told he would die right after finishing the cathedral, so the construction dragged on for 40 years, from 1818 to 1858.
        • Each 17-metre, 114-tonne column was raised into place in 40–45 minutes.
        • During the fire-gilding of the dome in 1838–1841, 60 craftsmen died of mercury vapour poisoning.
        • From 1931 to 1986 a Foucault pendulum on a 98-metre cable swung in the cathedral, showing the rotation of the Earth.
        • The cathedral's dome was the third in the world built on a metal frame.
        • The white marble iconostasis is decorated with malachite and Badakhshan lapis lazuli.
      4. 🚶 on foot
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        🍽 Gogol
        Малая Морская ул., 8
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        Lunch
        🍴 A Russian-cuisine restaurant set in a 19th-century noble apartment, between St Isaac's Cathedral and Nevsky. What to order: borscht with salo and pampushki, chicken Kiev, pirozhki, olivier salad, homemade tinctures.
      6. 🚇 metro from Gostiny Dvor, 1 stop to Mayakovskaya, change to Ploshchad Vosstaniya and 1 stop to Chernyshevskaya, then 20 min on foot; easier by taxi ≈15 min
      7. 4
        🌅 Smolny Cathedral (bell tower)
        пл. Растрелли, 1
        🎟 partly ticketed · The climb to the bell tower is ticketed
        A viewing platform on the bell tower — 277 steps
        The bell tower
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        Smolny Cathedral (bell tower)
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Smolny Cathedral (bell tower)
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The cathedral was founded on 30 October 1748: Elizabeth Petrovna wanted to end her days in a convent on the site of the palace of her childhood.
        • Because of the Seven Years' War money ran out, and under Elizabeth Rastrelli's cathedral was left unfinished as a bare shell.
        • The cathedral was completed by Vasily Stasov and consecrated on 20 July 1835.
        • Rastrelli built the cathedral ‘cold’, and Stasov had to struggle to cut flues for stoves in the walls.
        • The cathedral is 93.7 metres high.
        • The giant bell tower Rastrelli had planned was raised only a few metres and then dismantled.
        • From 1990 to 2015 the cathedral served as a classical music concert hall.
      8. 🚕 taxi ≈12 min to Ligovsky Prospekt, 74
      9. 5
        ✨ Etazhi loft project
        Лиговский пр., 74
        🎟 partly ticketed · Free entry; exhibitions are ticketed
        Exhibitions and design shops in a former bread factory
        The rooftop observation deck
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        Etazhi loft project
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY 4.0
        • Etazhi opened in 2007 and became Petersburg's first loft exhibition centre.
        • The project was dreamed up by Maria Romashova.
        • The interiors were reworked by the brothers Savely and Yegor Arkhipenko, who kept the baking equipment, the flour chutes, the boiler pipes and the bread factory's cast-iron floor.
        • The first exhibition was by Andrew Logan and Irena Kuksenaite in the Globus gallery on the fifth floor.
      10. 🚕 taxi ≈12 min to Lermontovsky Prospekt, 43
      11. 6
        🍽 F11
        Лермонтовский пр., 43/1 (18-й этаж отеля «Азимут»)
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        Dinner on the 18th floor
        🍴 A panoramic restaurant on the 18th floor of the Azimut with a view of Trinity and St Isaac's cathedrals; chef Igor Kazakov's cooking uses local produce. What to order: rice with scallop, octopus, "Kazakov-style" borscht, cheesecake.

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