Garrah Mini-Hotel: Location & Directions

Address: 23/43, Gorokhovaya Ulitsa, St. Petersburg, 190000
Nearest metro: Sadovaya

Gorokhovaya Ulitsa is one of the oldest streets in St. Petersburg, a narrow thoroughfare running more or less parallel to Nevsky Prospekt from the Fontanka River to the Alexander Gardens and the Admiralty. With most of the city's major sites - including the Winter Palace, St. Isaac's and Kazan Cathedrals and the Bronze Horseman - within comfortable walking distance, the Garrah Mini-Hotel is an excellent base from which to explore the historic parts of Saint Petersburg.

Vitebsk Station, from where trains depart to the Baltic States, Belarus and Eastern Europe, is about 10 minutes from the Garrah by car. All other mainline stations can be reached in 30 minutes or less. Pulkovo-1 and Pulkovo-2 airports are roughly 40 minutes' drive from the Garrah Mini-Hotel. The nearest metro stations, Sennaya Ploschad and Sadovaya, are about 10 minutes' walk from the Garrah Mini-Hotel.

Local sightseeing

Roughly a half kilometer from the hotel is Kazan Cathedral, built by the architect Andrei Voronikhin in the early 19th century to give thanks for Russia's victory over France in the Napoleonic Wars. The monumental facade overlooking Nevsky Prospekt is reminiscent of that of St. Peter's in Rome, and has 96 columns in four rows, two on each side of the main corpus.

North-west of the hotel is St. Isaac's Cathedral, one of the most important buildings in St. Petersburg and the base of Orthodoxy in the city. The current building was built to a design drawn up by Auguste Montferrand in the 19th century. The stunning interiors are covered with bronzes, mosaics, and paintings.

10 minutes' walk from the hotel is Palace Square, which is the nearest thing St. Petersburg has to a central square and is home to the General Staff Building and the Hermitage, one of the world's great museums. In the middle of the square is the Alexander Column, a massive granite edifice 25 meters high and topped with an angel. Like Kazan Cathedral, it is a monument to the victory in 1812.



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