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Fontanka 99 Mini-Hotel: Location & Directions |
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| Address: 99/6, Naberezhnaya Reki Fontanki, St. Petersburg, 190031 |  |
| Nearest metro: Sennaya Ploschad |
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The Fontanka River cuts through the center of St. Petersburg to join the Neva next to the Summer Gardens and Peter the Great's Summer Palace. One of the largest of the central waterways that have earned the city its reputation as the 'Venice of the North', the Fontanka has elegant granite embankments and some fabulous palaces along its banks. Although the area around the Fontanka 99 is not the most impressive stretch of the river, with many buildings in need of serious renovation, there is still plenty to see in the immediate vicinity, and a short walk will bring you to the intersection with Nevsky Prospekt, where there are some of the most stunning panoramas in the city.
The Fontanka 99 is about ten minutes' drive from Vitebsk Station, where trains leave for the Baltic States and other parts of Eastern Europe. The city's other mainline stations are a little further afield, but are all reachable by car in around half-an-hour. Moskovskiy Prospekt, which begins a short distance from the Fontanka, is St. Petersburg's main southern thoroughfare, leading straight to Pulkovo-1 and Pulkovo-2 airports. The drive should take less than thirty minutes, but traffic can make the trip quite a bit longer. The nearest metro stations are Sennaya Ploschad and Sadovaya, both 10 minutes' walk away.
There are few major sights in the immediate vicinity of the hotel, although the Naberezhnaya Reki Fontanki and the surrounding area are well stocked with attractive, palatial old buildings, making it a great place to stroll in the summer. The Yusupov Garden, about ten minutes' walk from the Fontanka 99, is prettily landscaped and, although the Yusupov Palace is closed to visitors, also boasts the Central Railway Museum.
The area around Sennaya Ploschad, where the nearest metro station is located, is famous to Dostoevsky fans as the setting for his novel Crime and Punishment. With a little detective work, enthusiasts can trace the action of the novel to various buildings in the surrounding streets.
A fifteen-minute walk down the Fontanka will bring you to the famous Anichkov Bridge, at the intersection with Nevsky Prospekt. Its distinctive prancing horses, sculpted in the 1840s by Pyotr Klodt, are one of the most oft-photographed sights in the city. Next to the bridge is the magnificent, Rococo Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace, which was long used as the local Communist Party headquarters.
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