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      Ioannovsky Bridge, the Hare and Neva Gate

      ⏱ 50 min🚶 1.6 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A wooden bridge with lanterns and a hare on a pile, the lit cathedral spire, sunset at Komendantskaya Pier opposite Palace Embankment and dinner with a view of the walls.

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        🏛 Ioannovsky Bridge
        A wooden bridge with lamps — the main entrance to the Peter and Paul Fortress from the Gorkovskaya side.
        Spot the hare on the pile by the bridge — people toss coins at it. The lanterns on the bridge are lit at dusk.
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        Ioannovsky Bridge
        © Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Ioannovsky Bridge
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The oldest bridge in Petersburg: the first wooden bridge here was built in 1703.
        • It is named after the Ioannovsky Ravelin, which it leads to.
        • Under the bridge stands a figure of a hare on a pile — by legend, a hare was the first to run onto Hare Island, escaping a flood.
        • The main flow of visitors to the fortress from the Petrograd Side comes over the Ioannovsky Bridge — it is pedestrian-only.
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        🏛 Peter and Paul Fortress
        🎟 partly ticketed · The grounds are free; the cathedral and museums are ticketed
        The noon cannon shot — at 12:00
        The grounds are open until 21:00, the cathedral and museums until 18:00: if you want to go inside, come by 17:00. The spire is lit once it gets dark.
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        Peter and Paul Fortress
        © Andrey Korzun · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Peter and Paul Fortress
        © Godot13 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The fortress was founded on 16 (27) May 1703 — this day is considered the founding day of Petersburg.
        • The fortress never took part in military action.
        • From 1706 the earthen ramparts began to be replaced with brick ones; the bastions are named after Peter's associates — Menshikov, Naryshkin, Trubetskoy.
        • The Peter and Paul Cathedral was built in 1712–1733 to a design by Trezzini; the bell tower is 122.5 m high, and inside is the Romanov burial vault.
        • The Peter Gate is dedicated to the victories over Sweden; Trezzini designed its Baroque facade in 1708.
        • Until the early 1920s the Trubetskoy Bastion held a prison for political prisoners; Maxim Gorky was held there in 1905.
        • In 1991 a monument to Peter I by Mikhail Shemyakin was placed on the central alley.
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        🌅 Nevsky Gate and Komendantskaya Pier
        The fortress gate to the Neva and the granite pier in front of it — from here you can see the whole facade of the Palace Embankment.
        Go out through the Neva Gate to the pier for sunset: the Winter Palace and the embankment light up right opposite.
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        Nevsky Gate and Komendantskaya Pier
        © Regina Ivanova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Nevsky Gate and Komendantskaya Pier
        © Николай Васильевич Белавин · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Nevsky Gate led to the pier from which the condemned were taken by river to execution — hence the name “Gate of Death”.
        • The present stone gate was built in 1784–1787 to a design by Nikolai Lvov.
        • On the wall by the gate are marked the levels of the worst floods, including 1824.
        • From the pier you can see the entire Palace Embankment — from the Spit to the Troitsky Bridge.
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        🍽 Alye Parusa Restaurant
        Кронверкская наб., 3, корп. 2
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        From the fortress, back over Ioannovsky Bridge and turn right: dinner with a view of the lit-up walls, kitchen open until 23:00.
        🍴 A family restaurant on Kronverkskaya Embankment with a view of the Peter and Paul Fortress, a summer veranda and its own beer. What to order: borscht, assorted shashliks, lyulya kebab, beef stroganoff with mash.

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