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| Address: 49/2, Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg, 191025 |  |
| Nearest metro: Mayakovskaya |
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Standing at the crossroads of St. Petersburg's two most famous streets - Nevsky Prospekt and Vladimirskiy Prospekt - the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel is ideally situated for sightseeing and business, and enjoys excellent transport links. The city's main tourist attractions, including the Winter Palace and St. Isaac's Cathedral, are a little less than a kilometer away down Nevsky Prospekt, and the hotel is surrounded by the city's premier shops and restaurants.
The Radisson is equidistant from four metro stations - Mayakovskaya, Gostiniy Dvor, Vladimirskaya and Dostoevskaya - all of which can be reached in under ten minutes' walk. Buses run along Nevsky Prospekt to almost every corner of the city. Moscow Station and Vitebsk Station are both about ten minutes' drive from the Radisson, and the city's other mainline stations can all be reached in under half an hour. St. Petersburg's two airports - Pulkovo-1 and Pulkovo-2 - are about 40 minutes away by car.
Only five minutes' walk from the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel, the Anchikov Bridge marks the point where Nevsky Prospekt crosses the Fontanka River. Famous for its four bronze equestrian statues, sculpted in the 1840s by Pyotr Klodt, the bridge is one of the most oft-photographed structures in the city. The bridge is flanked by palaces, of which the most striking is undoubtedly the Rococo Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace, which dates from the mid-nineteenth century, and now houses the city's Tourist Information Office.
Further down Nevsky Prospekt, the Aleksandrinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg's most famous dramatic theatre, has been working since the mid-eighteenth century. The theatre's fine building was designed by famous local architect Carlo Rossi, and witnessed the premieres of Gogol's Government Inspector, and Chekhov's The Seagull.
Not far from the Aleksandrinsky Theater, the Gostiny Dvor shopping arcade was built in the eighteenth century as the central trading post of St. Petersburg. It now contains some of the smartest outlets in the city, as well as a number of cafes and souvenir boutiques dotted around its vast interior.
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