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43 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins within 100 km of the city centre — every one on the interactive map, with photos, distances and directions.
The closest is Peter and Paul Fortress, 1 km east of the city centre; the most famous is Winter Palace — #29 of 8,133 worldwide — 1 km south. The oldest dated site in the circle is Koporye, founded 1237.
Every one of them stands in Russia — the country page shows the full national picture.
1 km south · Palace & château · #29 worldwide
The Winter Palace is a palace in Saint Petersburg that served as the official residence of the House of Romanov, the emperors of Russia, from 1732 to…
1 km east · Fortress · #151 worldwide
The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's…
2 km south-east · Castle · #220 worldwide
Saint Michael's Castle, also called the Mikhailovsky Castle or the Engineers' Castle, is a former royal residence in the historic centre of Saint…
2 km south-west · Palace & château · #302 worldwide
The Palace of the Yusupovs on the Moika, known as the Moika Palace or Yusupov Palace, is a former residence of the Russian noble House of Yusupov in…
3 km east · Palace & château · #312 worldwide
Tauride Palace is one of the largest and most historically important palaces in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1 km south-east · Palace & château
The Marble Palace is one of the first Neoclassical palaces in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2 km south-east · Palace & château
The Anichkov Palace, a former imperial palace in St. Petersburg, stands at the intersection of Nevsky Avenue and the Fontanka River.
2 km south · Palace & château
Mariinsky Palace, also known as Marie Palace, was the last neoclassical Imperial residence to be constructed in Saint Petersburg.
18 km south-west · Palace & château
Constantine Palace, also known as the Great Strelna Palace, is a Russian imperial palace built in 1720 and located in Strelna in St. Petersburg.
24 km west · Palace & château
The Peterhof Palace is a series of palaces and gardens located in Petergof, Saint Petersburg, Russia, commissioned by Peter the Great as a direct…
2 km south · Palace & château
The Stroganov Palace is a Late Baroque palace at the intersection of the Moika River and Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg, Russia.
2 km south-west · Palace & château
The Menshikov Palace is a Petrine Baroque edifice in Saint Petersburg, situated on Universitetskaya Embankment of the Bolshaya Neva on Vasilyevsky…
+ 16 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
26 km south · Palace & château · #123 worldwide
The Catherine Palace is a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo, located 30 kilometres south of St. Petersburg, Russia.
26 km south · Palace & château · #258 worldwide
The Alexander Palace is a former imperial residence near the town of Tsarskoye Selo in Russia, on a plateau about 30 miles south of Saint Petersburg.
44 km south · Palace & château · #318 worldwide
The Great Gatchina Palace is a palace in Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It was built from 1766 to 1781 by Antonio Rinaldi for Count Grigori…
40 km east · Fortress
The Oreshek Fortress is one of a series of fortifications built in Oreshek on Orekhovy Island in Lake Ladoga, near the modern city of Saint…
30 km south · Palace & château
Pavlovsk Palace is an 18th-century Russian Imperial residence built by the order of Catherine the Great for her son Grand Duke Paul, in Pavlovsk,…
45 km south · Palace & château
Priory Palace is an original palace in the formerly royal town of Gatchina, Leningrad oblast, Northwest Russia, a suburb of Saint Petersburg.
55 km west · Fortress
Krasnaya Gorka is a coastal artillery fortress in Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia.
30 km west · Fortress
The Kronstadt Fortress is an architectural and historical monument of the 18th–19th centuries in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
56 km north-west · Ruin
Fort Ino or Fort Nikolaevsky is an abandoned early 20th-century Russian coastal fortification situated on the northern shore of Neva Bay in the Gulf…
34 km west · Fortress
Fort Alexander, also Fort Alexander I, or Plague Fort is a sea fort on an artificial island in the Gulf of Finland near Kronstadt, one of the sea…
31 km south · Fortress
Mariental, informally also Bibs or Bip, is a two-storey castle with two towers and an inner courtyard at the confluence of the Slavyanka and Tyzva…
30 km north-west · Fortress
Totleben is a Russian artificial island about one kilometre long in the shape of a recumbent "C" with an area of 4.8 ha, and a former fort in the…
+ 1 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
77 km west · Fortress
Koporye is a historic village in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located about 100 km west of St. Petersburg and 12 km south of the Koporye Bay of the…
61 km west · Ruin
The "Seraya Loshad" battery, from 29 August 1919 the "Peredovoy" fort, from 1926 the "Bukharin" fort, and from 1936 to 1953 the "Krasnogvardeysky"…
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q656.
The Castlemap atlas maps 43 landmarks (1 castle · 9 fortresses · 30 palaces & châteaux · 3 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Saint Petersburg, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Peter and Paul Fortress, a fortress 1 km east of the city centre.
Winter Palace, ranked #29 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 1 km south from Saint Petersburg.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Koporye, founded 1237 — 77 km west. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Helsinki (299 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
