Two markets: Sytny and Andreevsky

⏱ 4 h🚶 4 km🍽 3📍 5 stops

🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

A food walk from Petrogradka to Vasilyevsky across Tuchkov Bridge.

🍽 Food tour🏛 History and architecture

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🧺 Sytny Market
Сытнинская пл., 5
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Breakfast at the market
🍴 The city's oldest market, in a building of 1913: meat, dairy and fruit rows, a café on the second floor. What to order: chicken Kyiv at the “180°” (Kotletnaya) stall, plov with flatbread at Plovnaya, farm cheeses and curd cheese.
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🌅 Tuchkov Bridge
A long drawbridge across the Malaya Neva between Vasilyevsky Island and the Petrogradskaya Side.
A view of the Malaya Neva
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© Nikolai Bulykin · CC BY-SA 4.0
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- The first wooden bridge here was built in 1758 with merchants' money.
- It is named after the merchant Avraam Tuchkov, the owner of warehouses, who funded its construction.
- In 1839 artificial asphalt was laid for the first time in Russia on the causeway of the Tuchkov Bridge.
- In 1870 the wooden bridge burned down from a cigarette that was not put out.
- The present bridge of 1962–1965, together with the Alexander Nevsky Bridge, was the country's first hydraulically operated drawbridge.
- When it opened, it was the widest of the city's large bridges: 36 m between the railings.
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🧺 Vasileostrovsky Market
Большой пр. В.О., 16/14б
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Cheeses, pickles, smoked fish
🍴 A gourmet market from the 1930s which, after the 2019 renovation, is a food hall with 30+ stalls and grocery rows with their own cheese dairy. What to order: Roman pizza at Piopizza, pho at Bổ, khinkali (Georgian dumplings) at Georgiani, oysters at Fisha.
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🚶 6th and 7th Lines Boulevard
Vasilyevsky's pedestrian “line”
A stroll along the boulevard
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- According to Peter I's plan the lines of Vasilyevsky Island were to be canal embankments; the name of the 6th and 7th lines has been known since 1718.
- The pedestrian Andreevsky Boulevard between Bolshoy and Sredny prospekts opened in 2002.
- The monument to Vasily Korchmin, commander of Peter's battery on the Spit, was unveiled at 34, 7th Line in 2003.
- From 1863 one of the city's first passenger horse trams ran along the 6th Line — a reminder is the carriage with bronze horses by Sredny Prospekt.
- The painter Nicholas Roerich was born at No. 1 on the 6th Line in 1874.
- Korney Chukovsky lived at No. 5 on the 6th Line in 1905–1906.
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☕️ Stolle on the 1st Line
1-я линия В.О., 50
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Pies for dessert
🍴 A pie shop of the Petersburg Stolle chain (since 2002): pies by old Russian recipes, whole or by the slice, sweet and savoury. What to order: a mushroom pie, a fish pie, a chocolate pie.