Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments

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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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf UNESCO World Heritage Site
cultural heritage site
architecturalStyle Baroque
Neoclassical architecture
associatedWithRiver Neva River
continent Europe
country Russia
criteria (i)
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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
surface form: 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
surface form: Peterhof Palace and Park

Smolny Cathedral
Saint Isaac's Cathedral
surface form: St Isaac’s Cathedral

Stock Exchange building on Vasilyevsky Island
Summer Garden
Tsarskoye Selo State Museum of Fine Arts and Historic Monuments
surface form: Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin) palace-and-park ensemble

Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments self-linksurface differs
surface form: Vasilyevsky Island ensemble

Winter Palace
bridges of the Neva River in central Saint Petersburg
embankments of the Neva River
Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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 Russia
surface form: Russian Federation

St. Petersburg
surface form: 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

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Mikhailovsky Garden locatedIn Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
this entity surface form: historic centre of Saint Petersburg
Theatre Square, Saint Petersburg UNESCOWorldHeritageSite Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Адмиралтейская набережная partOf Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
this entity surface form: исторический центр Санкт-Петербурга
St Michael Castle locatedIn Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
this entity surface form: Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg
Catherine Palace partOf Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Chinese Village, Tsarskoye Selo heritageDesignation Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Vorontsov Palace (St. Petersburg) partOf Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Vorontsov Palace (St. Petersburg) UNESCOWorldHeritageSite Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Monument to Nicholas I partOf Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
this entity surface form: historic center of Saint Petersburg
Chinese Village heritageDesignation Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Cameron Gallery heritageDesignation Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Turkish Bath Pavilion heritageSiteOf Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Granite Terrace heritageDesignation Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Concert Hall Pavilion heritageDesignation Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Tsar's Village partOf Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Alexander Palace museum heritageDesignation Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Lomonosov town in Leningrad Oblast heritageSiteOf Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
subject surface form: Lomonosov
Bolshaya Morskaya Street partOf Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
this entity surface form: historic centre of Saint Petersburg
Petrovsky Island partOf Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
this entity surface form: historic core of Saint Petersburg
Pushkinsky District hasUNESCOWorldHeritageSite Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Peterhof Lower Park partOf Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Upper Garden partOf Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Palace Passage urbanArea Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
this entity surface form: Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg
Saint Catherine’s Church, Saint Petersburg locatedIn Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
this entity surface form: Nevsky Prospekt historic ensemble
Field of Mars, Saint Petersburg partOf Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
this entity surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments