Saint Petersburg Seen from the Colonnade of St. Isaac’s Cathedral with TranslatorsCafe.com

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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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