Fortress
Kronstadt Fortress
🇷🇺 Russia · 18th century
The Kronstadt Fortress is an architectural and historical monument of the 18th–19th centuries in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Only the Northern Wall of the fortress, located in the center of Kronstadt along Vosstaniya Street, which was built in the 19th century along the already existing, but not long before, rebuilt fortress, has survived in good condition.
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Kronstadt Fortress ranks #3,282 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #68 of the 127 mapped in Russia. Founded 1704, it is older than 24% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 329 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. See how Russia compares in the castle statistics.
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