ST. PETERSBURG — Once you’ve gotten ... decorative arts and architecture that transformed Rome during the Baroque period. Palazzo Chigi, the family’s summer home in Ariccia, just outside ...

St Petersburg is one of Europe’s great cultural cities. Brimming with museums, galleries and theatres, it offers visitors endless opportunities to discover not just Russian traditions and ...

particularly in architecture, and create a uniquely Russian hybrid. To be in St. Petersburg is to be immersed in an architectural textbook. From the Petrine Baroque, Elizabethan Rococo ...

The baroque palace was finished ... Belarus and the southern suburbs of St. Petersburg. One of the most extravagant creations of modern architecture, the business complex stands at 462 meters ...

The imperial city built by Peter the Great as Russia’s window to the west is filled with beautiful Baroque and Neoclassical ... tsars and tsarinas, today St Petersburg is one of the 30 most ...

Achingly beautiful St Petersburg, with its baroque palaces and sweeping broad ... have also stymied the development of inventive architecture. And hotels in particular have stuck to a tried ...

Among Saint Petersburg's dazzling architecture ... which is still the highest building in St. Petersburg, and the baroque Peter and Paul Cathedral which is the final resting place of Peter ...

Many proposals by foreign architects in St Petersburg, including Dominique Perrault Architecture’s plans for the Mariinsky ... Rossi gave St Petersburg its identity by introducing Western baroque and ...

We hope that the solutions proposed by the participants will consider current trends in green architecture.’ St Petersburg was founded by Tsar ... Since 1990, the baroque and classical central area of ...

The fairy-tale Stroganov Palace (the birthplace of beef Stroganov), with its magnificent pink-and-white Russian baroque facade; the luxurious Grand Hotel Europe, St. Petersburg’s oldest hotel ...