Peter and Paul Fortress

Peter and Paul Fortress - the historical kernel of St. Petersburg, military engineering and architectural monument. From this place the city began its construction in 1701. Monument for bunny at the bridge on Rabbit Island, where the Peter and Paul Fortress located, especially favored by tourists. It is necessary to make a wish and throw a coin - if it falls to the base of the pedestal, the wish will come true.

The composition of a single architectural ensemble consists of fortifications - walls, curtain walls, bastions and ravelins; Peter ceremonial gates decorated with bas-relief "The overthrow of Simon the sorcerer St. Peter" Conrad Osnera work; Botnia house, which houses a replica of the boat of Peter I, «Grandfather of the Russian Navy" (the original is now in the Central Naval Museum); Mint building; Engineering house, Commandant's House.

In the center of the ensemble is Peter and Paul Cathedral. At the fortress housed the exhibition of St. Petersburg Museum of History. In the former Commandant's House 1975 opened the exhibition "History of St. Petersburg." In the Engineering house held various exhibitions of the richest museum funds. The room is a museum at Johann Ravelin Gas Dynamics Laboratory, dedicated to the development of Russian rocketry and astronautics. Daily from Naryshkin bastion midday cannon shot is heard, and every year on May 27 and Paul Fortress becomes a place of solemn celebration of the City Day.

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