Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments

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UNESCO World Heritage Site cultural heritage site

The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments is a UNESCO World Heritage Site encompassing the city’s baroque and neoclassical urban core and its most significant architectural and cultural landmarks.

Aliases (9)

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	UNESCO World Heritage Site → cultural heritage site →
architecturalStyle	Baroque → Neoclassical architecture →
associatedWithRiver	Neva River →
continent	Europe →
country	Russia →
criteria	(i) → (ii) → (iv) → (vi) →
foundedBy	Peter the Great →
hasPart	Academy of Arts building → Admiralty building → Bronze Horseman monument → Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood → Field of Mars → Hermitage Museum → Kazan Cathedral → Kronstadt fortifications → Marble Palace → Mikhailovsky Castle → Nevsky Prospekt → Oranienbaum (Lomonosov) palace-and-park ensemble → Palace Square → Pavlovsk palace-and-park ensemble → Peter and Paul Cathedral → Peter and Paul Fortress → Peterhof Palace and Park → Smolny Cathedral → St Isaac’s Cathedral → Stock Exchange building on Vasilyevsky Island → Summer Garden → Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin) palace-and-park ensemble → Vasilyevsky Island ensemble → Winter Palace → bridges of the Neva River in central Saint Petersburg → embankments of the Neva River → historic centre of Saint Petersburg →
heritageDesignation	World Heritage Site in danger (potential risk discussed by UNESCO in context of development and infrastructure projects) →
inscriptionYear	1990 →
locatedIn	Russian Federation → Saint Petersburg →
recognizedBy	UNESCO →
significance	major example of 18th and 19th century European urban planning → outstanding ensemble of baroque and neoclassical architecture →
UNESCORegion	Europe and North America →
UNESCOSiteId	540 →
urbanPlanningType	planned city →

Referenced by (44)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Admiralty Embankment ("historic center of Saint Petersburg") → Admiralty building ("historic center of Saint Petersburg") → Alexander Nevsky Lavra ("Saint Petersburg Historic Centre and Related Groups of Monuments") → Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace ("historic center of Saint Petersburg") → Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo → Catherine Park → Commandant’s House ("historic center of Saint Petersburg") → Fontanka River ("Saint Petersburg historic center") → Great Hall ("World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments") → Griboyedov Canal ("historic center of Saint Petersburg") → Mikhailovsky Castle → Millionnaya Street ("historic center of Saint Petersburg") → Palace Embankment ("historic center of Saint Petersburg") → Palace Square → Peter and Paul Fortress → Petergof → Peterhof Palace → Pushkin → Saint Isaac's Square ("historic center of Saint Petersburg") → Shlisselburg → Shlisselburg Fortress → Stroganov Palace ("historic center of Saint Petersburg") → Stroganov Palace vicinity ("historic center of Saint Petersburg") →	partOf
General Staff Building → Grand Cascade → Hermitage Pavilion → Marly Palace → Monplaisir Palace →	heritageSiteOf
Carlo Rossi ("Rossi Street urban ensemble in Saint Petersburg") → Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments ("historic centre of Saint Petersburg") → Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments ("Vasilyevsky Island ensemble") →	hasPart
Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood ("Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg") → Church on Spilled Blood ("Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg") → Small Hermitage →	locatedIn
Palace Embankment → Passage department store ("historic center of Saint Petersburg") →	touristRegion
Leningrad →	hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite
State Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg facilities ("historic center of Saint Petersburg") →	heritageContext
Kronstadt →	heritageDesignation
Nevsky Gate ("historic center of Saint Petersburg") →	isPartOf
Dom Knigi bookstore ("Saint Petersburg historic center") →	locatedInHistoricCenter
Carlo Rossi ("Nevsky Prospekt architectural ensembles") →	notableWork
Alexander Column →	UNESCOWorldHeritageSite
Catherine Block →	worldHeritageSiteOf