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Palace Bridge drawing, an iconic sight of St. Petersburg. There are more than 342 bridges in the city limits of Saint Petersburg, Russia. This is a partial list of the most famous ones. Peter the Great was designing the city as another Amsterdam and Venice, with canals instead of streets and citizens skillful in sailing. Initially, there were ...
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, officially referred to as the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, is a pair of long beam bridges with a central tall cable-stayed bridge. It spans Lower Tampa Bay to connect Pinellas County (St. Petersburg, Florida) to Manatee County (Terra Ceia, Florida). The current Sunshine Skyway opened in 1987 and is the second ...
The St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club was established in 1924 and gained attention as the "World's Largest Shuffleboard Club" with 110 courts and over 5,000 members in the 1950s and 1960s. [87] Northshore Aquatic Complex is a public pool and small water park located downtown on the St. Petersburg waterfront.
The Anichkov Bridge (Russian: Аничков мост, Anichkov Most) is the oldest and most famous bridge across the Fontanka River in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The current bridge, built in 1841-42 and reconstructed in 1906-08, combines a simple form with some spectacular decorations.
The 99-metre (325 ft)-wide Blue Bridge, now hardly visible underneath Saint Isaac's Square, remains the widest bridge in the whole city. [ citation needed ] Magnificent 18th-century edifices lining the Moyka quay include the Stroganov Palace , Razumovsky Palace, Yusupov Palace , New Holland Arch , Saint Michael's Castle , and the last ...
Staro-Nikolsky Bridge; Stone Bridge (Saint Petersburg) T. Torgovy Bridge; Trinity Bridge, Saint Petersburg; Tripartite Bridge; Tuchkov Bridge; U. Upper Swan Bridge;
Bridge of Four Lions (Russian: Львиный мост, Мост о четырёх львах) is a 28-metre-long pedestrian bridge over the Griboedov Canal in St Petersburg, connecting L'vinyi Drive to Malaya Podyacheskaya Street. The Lion Bridge is in the Admiralteysky District of St
St. Petersburg River Yacht Club, established in 1860, is situated in the western spit of the island. Petrovsky Avenue is the main road. The island is linked to Krestovsky Island via Bolshoy Petrovsky Bridge, Dekabristov Island via Betancourt Bridge and Petrogradsky Island via Maly Petrovsky Bridge. The other bridges are foot bridges thrown over ...