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      White Nights and the drawbridges

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 5 km🍽 2📍 6 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Dinner by the Neva, night embankments and the raising of Palace Bridge.

      🌙 Evening🏛 History and architecture
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      1. 1
        🏛 Peter and Paul Fortress
        🎟 partly ticketed · The grounds are free; the cathedral and museums are ticketed
        The noon cannon shot — at 12:00
        Sunset from the beach at the fortress walls
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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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      3. 2
        🍽 Petrovskoye café in the Peter and Paul Fortress
        Петропавловская крепость, 3Т
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        Dinner in the fortress, then down to the Neva
        🍴 An inexpensive canteen-style café right inside the Peter and Paul Fortress: soups, pastries, lunches. What to order: borscht, pasta, pirozhki, tea in a pot.
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      5. 3
        🌅 Trinity Bridge
        A drawbridge about 580 metres long with openwork lamps and views of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
        We cross to the left bank
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        Trinity Bridge
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Trinity Bridge
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The bridge was laid on 12 August 1897 under Nicholas II and French President Félix Faure, in response to the laying of the Pont Alexandre III in Paris.
        • Gustave Eiffel's firm won the competition, but construction went to the French company Batignolles.
        • Until 1965, when the Alexander Nevsky Bridge opened, the Trinity Bridge, at 582 m, was the longest in the city.
        • The bridge is dedicated to the 25th wedding anniversary of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna — the plaques on the obelisks say so.
        • In 1918–1934 it was called the Equality Bridge, and in 1934–1991 the Kirov Bridge.
        • The Pulkovo meridian crosses the northern part of the bridge.
        • Since 2005 the raised span of the Trinity Bridge has been one of the symbols of the Scarlet Sails graduates' festival.
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      7. 4
        🚶 Palace Embankment
        A granite embankment along the Neva from the Summer Garden to the Hermitage, with views of the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Spit.
        The night embankment
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        Palace Embankment
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The embankment is 1.3 km long; it is named after the Winter and Marble palaces.
        • From 1923 to 1944 it was called Ninth of January Embankment, in memory of the shooting of the 1905 demonstration.
        • The wooden bank was faced with granite by a decree of 1762; the work under Yury Felten went on until 1780.
        • The fabulist Ivan Krylov lived at No. 2, Betskoy's house.
        • Prime Minister Sergey Witte, the painter Konstantin Makovsky and the historian Yevgeny Tarle lived at No. 30.
        • In 1832 the 600-tonne monolith of the Alexander Column was unloaded at this embankment, brought on the special boat ‘St Nicholas’.
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      9. 5
        🌅 Palace Bridge
        Raised during the navigation season (April–November) at about 1:10
        The bridge goes up around 1:10
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        Palace Bridge
        © Vyacheslav Bukharov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Palace Bridge
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Palace Bridge
        © Safa.daneshvar · CC BY 4.0
        • The permanent bridge opened on 23 December 1916 unfinished, with “temporary” wooden railings.
        • The cast-iron railings replaced the wooden ones only in 1939.
        • The design by engineer Andrzej Pshenitsky of the Kolomna Works Society was chosen for construction.
        • Before opening, the bridge was tested by driving 34 loaded trucks onto all its spans at once.
        • From 1918 to 1944 the bridge was called the Republican Bridge.
        • The earlier floating Palace Bridge, moved to Senate Square, burned down in 1916 from a spark from a passing tug.
        • The tram tracks were removed from the bridge in 1997.
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      11. 6
        🍸 The Hat jazz bar
        ул. Белинского, 9
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        A drink after the bridges rise
        🍴 Billy Novik's jazz bar, where live jazz is played every evening in a jam-session format, often with visiting musicians. What to order: whisky, classic cocktails from the bartender.

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